Crossridge Church
CROSSRIDGE - Sunday, December 17, 2023
Locations & Times
Crossridge Sundays
5732 176 St, Surrey, BC V3S 4C8, Canada
Sunday 9:00 AM
Sunday 10:45 AM
1. Generosity is the...
2. Generosity doesn't...
QUOTE - Derek W.H. Thomas
“Nothing destroys evangelism more than the duplicity and hypocrisy of the messenger. The world’s only knowledge of Jesus Christ is what it sees in the lives of Christians. If what it sees is a community more concerned for self-aggrandizement than mutual support, why should it listen? If the world sees Christians criticizing each other in attempts at oneupmanship and self-promotion, it will turn away, hardened to the message of the gospel. Instead, what they witnessed in Jerusalem was a community in which those who had much sacrificed for the sakes of those who had little. It was a tangible expression of their love.”
“Nothing destroys evangelism more than the duplicity and hypocrisy of the messenger. The world’s only knowledge of Jesus Christ is what it sees in the lives of Christians. If what it sees is a community more concerned for self-aggrandizement than mutual support, why should it listen? If the world sees Christians criticizing each other in attempts at oneupmanship and self-promotion, it will turn away, hardened to the message of the gospel. Instead, what they witnessed in Jerusalem was a community in which those who had much sacrificed for the sakes of those who had little. It was a tangible expression of their love.”
QUOTE - John Stott
“He (Satan) sought to deflect the apostles from their priority responsibilities of prayer and preaching by preoccupying them with social administration, which was not their calling. If he had been successful in this, an untaught church would hav been exposed to every wind of false doctrine.”
“He (Satan) sought to deflect the apostles from their priority responsibilities of prayer and preaching by preoccupying them with social administration, which was not their calling. If he had been successful in this, an untaught church would hav been exposed to every wind of false doctrine.”
3. Generosity can be...
QUOTE - Bruce Milne
“WARNING: Studying the Book of Acts can be very bad for your health. Specifically, it may cost you a lot of money. It could involve you in conversations leading to being dismissed, even mocked. It will very possibly undermine some of your most treasured ambitions, and even require you to abandon some of your long-cherished dreams. It may involve you in profound relationships with people very different from yourself, who speak the oddest of languages and live in the poorest, most densely populated, loneliest, or trendiest of places on planet earth. It may lead you to your adoption new disciplines in prayer, affect your sleeping patterns, and perhaps even shorten your life. So, be warned!”
“WARNING: Studying the Book of Acts can be very bad for your health. Specifically, it may cost you a lot of money. It could involve you in conversations leading to being dismissed, even mocked. It will very possibly undermine some of your most treasured ambitions, and even require you to abandon some of your long-cherished dreams. It may involve you in profound relationships with people very different from yourself, who speak the oddest of languages and live in the poorest, most densely populated, loneliest, or trendiest of places on planet earth. It may lead you to your adoption new disciplines in prayer, affect your sleeping patterns, and perhaps even shorten your life. So, be warned!”