Covenant Sunday

(October 2, 2011 – Mike Nichols)

Sermon was not recorded this week but transcript is available at the link below. Go to bottom of this introduction for link to the pdf file.

COVENANT SUNDAY

Today is Covenant Sunday at Cap. We are going to ask you to freely and voluntarily participate in making covenant with us. Our Capchurch covenant is value laden. The values behind the covenant express our common experience of being called by God; the content of our faith—what we believe about the triune God from the Bible; who we are as a community; our sense of purpose, mission; And our unique history with God.

Behind our covenant are other values—values that define who we are as a community of faith and how we will treat one another; values that the shape and character of church life. All of our ministries and programs; and our pastoral posture when we meet with you for coffee arise out of these values. By affirming these values we as leaders are writing Cap’s history in advance. Covenant is the highest form of relational commitment. It writes the future in advance by choosing to do good to someone despite what may come. When you define your relationships by covenant, they are defined by commitment, love, and acceptance and not by performance. Let’s make covenant!

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Justice Sundays at Cap – speakers series online

Justice Sunday, June 19th – the injustice of human trafficking + injustice in the community of Gitsegukla, BC

Don’t Do It Alone

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(November 7, 2010 Kim Pierrot)

DON’T DO IT ALONE
Ephesians 2:11-22

Eugene Peterson writes, “As long as individualism has free reign in our lives, we will not be capable of embracing church. Individualism severely handicaps us in growing up to the measure of the full stature of Christ. If unchecked it can be fatal, fating us to lifelong immaturity.”

Eugene Peterson, Practice Resurrection

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Overcoming Arrested Development – Text of October 17 Sermon

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Home Groups 2011-2012

Small groups are the heart of CapChurch. In this listing, you will find a rich variety of gatherings where people are growing together in the skills of life and faith. Some study Scripture and pray, others cook to the glory of God Read more

Making Covenant – Text of October 3 Sermon

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Change – Commitment to a Community of Faith

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(September 26, 2010 – Mike Nichols)

Last week we talked about God‟s will and community. I said, “You will not find meaning in your spiritual life by being a consumer . . . and you will actually inhibit the community from maturing. The thing about maturing is that you can‟t do it by yourself and you will never achieve maturity if you pursue it directly. Romans 12 makes it clear that spiritual maturity is a by-product of commitment to a community of faith and doing the hard, uncomfortable and relational stuff that happens when you are involved deeply with people.”
As a community hold onto what is good . . . Help one another with faith burn-out; and encourage one another to refuel with the Spirit as needed. Stand with one another in hard times and you who are not suffering don’t give up on prayer for those who don’t have the strength to pray. Your turn will come when they can stand with you.
[Romans 12:9ff]

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Celebrate – Called to Celebrate Christ

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(September 19, 2010 – Mike Nichols)

What comes to mind when someone says “Let‘s celebrate?” Food? Party? How about if we add “let‘s celebrate Christ?” Most of us probably think celebrating Christ is worship and you‘d be right. Yet what the Bible thinks of as worship is different from what we think of as a worship service. There are many words in the Bible for celebrate–two show different aspects of celebration. Prospiptó from which we get prostrate is used in Luke 5:8 where Peter falls before Jesus in awe of the miraculous catch of fish. Part of celebrating Christ is to receive his overwhelming grace and respond with humility and awe.

Latreuó is found in Romans 12:1, Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Celebrating Christ according to the Bible is primarily about your lifestyle. Check the context for more specifics on a lifestyle that celebrates Christ. How you love, hate, handle affliction, have people for dinner, give are all acts of worship—or not. Today we examine the 2nd of Cap‘s three C‘s—called to celebrate Christ.

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