1. You can settle for...

· Suffering with no real purpose
· Impure motives/hidden agendas
· People-pleasing
· Temporary humanitarian efforts
· Living for human praise/opposition
· Conditional love
· Earthly riches… maybe
· Human wisdom

2. Or, with God, you can experience...

· Purpose in your pain
· Fellowship in the body of Christ
· A life lived for God’s pleasure
· Lasting and eternal change in lives
· Living for God’s approval
· Unconditional love
· Eternal rewards in heaven… definitely
· The wisdom of the all-knowing Creator of everything

3. Fervency: An Intentional Choice

· Fervent (adj) having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm; ardent; hot, burning, glowing (www.dictionary.com)

1. People are suffering.

· The Church is able to demonstrate courage in suffering.

2. People feel cheated and lonely.

· The Church can offer true fellowship.

3. People are dying without Jesus.

· The Church knows the way to salvation.

1. You are part of something earned.

2. You are part of something special.

3. You are part of something eternal.

1. Do people think of you as having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, and enthusiasm about Jesus?

2. Do you accept the mission of CWC?
To share the light of Jesus Christ with our world

3. Are you intentionally gathering, growing, giving, and going?

Giving & Attendance Update
Giving last Sunday: 125% of goal
Giving year to date: 89.4% of goal
Attendance last Sunday: 1,764
Salvations to date: 176 | Baptisms to date: 25

Christmas Blessing Update
Local: $42,000.00
Global (Clean Water): $43,557.46