3 Keys to Breaking Materialism

1. Generosity/Giving
2. Receiving
3. Love

1. Generosity/Giving
· Giving to God, others, others in need
· What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you
· Lu 6:38 Give and it shall be given…
· Give God your best.
· 3 wise men brought Jesus Gold Frankincense and Myrrh
· You must learn to give for the right reasons
· Giving makes you a generous person
· Proverbs says that when you give to the poor, you lend to the Lord and He will repay you.
· When you give you break the spirit of greed, and materialism

2. Receive
· People must learn to receive
· Part what makes this season great, is receiving when you don’t deserve it.
· A gift is free.
· You don’t earn it, work for it, or save for it. Just open it!!!
· Mk 11:22-24 believe that you receive when you pray…
· Don’t be too prideful to receive help, or money, or prayer.
· It is a natural flow in life to give and to receive, but it is better to give.
· Rms 6:23 wages of sin is death but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
· What is something that is too great to receive?
· Is there anything that you would say that is too much, I won’t receive it!

• Learn to Receive!
  
  3. Love
  · 1 Cor 16:14-do everything with Love
  · 1 John says God is Love
  · Ascribing worth to each other

Some Greek Words for Love
· Agape love-unconditional God kind of love
· Phileo Love- friendship love
· Eros-Erotic, love between a husband and wife (yeah!)

· We must learn to ascribe worth to each other, and to our enemies

· Mat 5 let them see your good works and glorify your Father in Heaven.

HC Prospectus

Horizons now has the finished product available. "The Prospectus". The purpose of this is to adequately describe in some detail the scaffolding or structure of the organization. If you are interested in one, please email me for a copy. I could put it on this site, but that would be too easy. I want you to request it! Many are!! Those that see it say it is done with excellence and professionalism. Only the best for you! It is simply a conversation piece. In detail, it is a 45 page, full color, with pictures (for those that like that!), descriptive, glossy, informational tool to show you that much hard work is being done to lay the ground work of our new church. We want all the systems, infrastructure, and organization to be done with full harmony before we even open the doors. There is much work to be done, but it gives us all purpose!

I am hesitating to name any names at this point, but many thanks go out to the one who opened his doors to me, to print 40 copies of a 45 page prospectus! That is 1800 pages (so you don't have to get your calculator like I did). It was taking me 1 whole hour to print only 1. You can do the math on the time it saved me, not to mention printing costs, paper and ink. God Bless You MK3. You know who you are. You get the MVP award for this month for HC.

More later. God Bless.

Vision, Mission, Core Values

Horizons Church posted its Vision, Mission, Core Values, and Committments in the last post.

Check it out under "Vision".

Vision

Vision is one of those things that comes from the seat of desire. When you begin to get a vision about your life or what you want to do, you realize pictures of desire within yourself that are not yet achieved. But these dreams become the frames of the future as you put the scaffolding around your dreams. That scaffolding is the vision. It is large and tall, but there are a lot of gaps. You may right out your dreams and desires. What you want can become a vision for your life if you can lay out a clear process for attaining those dreams. So the dreams, desires, hopes, and anything ever scratched on a restaurant napkin, only become vision as you begin to envision those things happening.

Also, the next thing supporting your vision is the mission, and core values of what you are, and what you want to be the bullet points of your vision. Things that you will always come back to in life, regardless of what happens, those become your core values. No matter what, core values are made up of what works. Your mission will begin the road to how you will achieve the vision. See if you like this Vision, Mission, and Core Value sheet. It is called The Plan...

The Plan

The Vision
To Know Christ and Make Him Known

The Mission
To Passionately Love God, Sacrificially Love Each Other, Stay Committed To The Lost

Core Values
1. Great Communication
2. Building Strong families, and Develop Great Relationships
3. High Impact, High Energy Music Teams
4. Great Kids and Student groups
5. Life-Giving Small Groups
6. Stay Committed to the Lost, or Reaching People
7. Planting Missional Churches for Impact

Commitments
1. Build Strong Families Through Great Relationships.
2. Evangelism Through Bridge Builders, Church Planting, Events, and Individual Servant Hood.
3. High Energy-High Impact Worship Experience With Focus On The Presence Of God.
4. Maximum Impact Media Presentation Through Technology To Reach All Interests In TV, DVD, Internet, Satellite, Radio, ETC.
5. High Energy-High Impact, Culturally Relevant Kids, Student (Jr & Sr High), College and Singles Groups.
6. Multiplication through Solid Discipleship, Practical Bible Teaching and Small Groups.
7. Spirit Filled Community Of Believers Loving God and Loving Each Other.
8. Great Stewardship through Giving- Our Time, Talents, and Treasures For God’s Purposes.
9. Partnerships by Networking New Relationships for Kingdom Advancement.
10. Leadership to Bring Help, Hope, and Encouragement.