Missions Focus: Please be praying for Zack, Michelle, and Rowan F. They are missionaries we support monthly who serve in a sensitive region in the Middle East. Pray for Muslims in your world. Pray for opportunity to connect with them and know them and their stories.
Local: Pray for people in your local who are struggling with mental health.
Church: Pray for opportunity and provision is the Corner Church world. Pray for opportunity to be a part of God’s plan in this.

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Communal Prayer is every Tuesday from 9am-10am in the Corner Coffee North Loop basement space.
Spring Connection Groups. Go to corner.church/groups to learn more.
The Corner Church Annual Meeting is TONIGHT, Sunday, March 23 at 6pm at Corner Coffee North Loop. This is an opportunity to connect deeply with what has happened and will be happening at Corner Church. Hear the updates, process the challenges and opportunities before us, and end by celebrating communion together. SEE YOU TONIGHT!
Neighborhood Candy Grabs in Camden and the North Loop. Mark your calendar: April 12 in Camden and April 19 in the North Loop. You can help, as each candy grab will have an egg stuffing party the week before and both events need donations of individually wrapped candies.
Corner Church Youth First Friday Dinner is actually on the second Friday this month: April 11 at 7pm at the Woller home. Middle school and high school students and their friends are invited!!
Our next UNITED service is Sunday, April 13. Four times a year we bring all our communities together for one combined / UNITED Sunday service. We will be meeting at 10am in the Neu Neu (across the hall from Corner Coffee North Loop,514 N 3rd St MPLS). Plan on coming early for COFFEE starting at 9:15am. At 10am we will start off with a potluck brunch. Please bring a brunch item to share! As people finish getting their food, the service will start. UNITED services are great to connect with others from all the Corner Church communities and to celebrate how we are part of a larger Body of Christ in our city and beyond.
Corner Church Missions Trip to Spain – September 2025! Email Greg Barber if you are interested: greg@corner.church.

Give each of these invitations a score:
1 • I tend to feel apprehension when receiving an invitation to these
Anxiety • Obligation • Guilt •Overwhelm • Disappointment

5 • I tend to feel elation when receiving an invitation to these
Excitement • Appreciation • Happiness • Anticipation • Belonging

Weddings • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Birthday Parties • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Graduation Ceremonies or Parties • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Holiday Gatherings (Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc.) • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Dinner Parties • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Networking Events • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Work Meetings or Conferences • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Bachelor/Bachelorette Parties • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Reunions (Family, High School, College, etc.) • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Charity or Fundraising Events • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Dialogue Question:

Looking at your inventory on your announcement card:
What fuels your range of responses to an invitation?

Dialogue Question:

When a person feels strong elation when being invited, how does that impact that person’s inviting others?

Dialogue Question:

When a person feels strong apprehension when being invited, how does that impact that person’s inviting others?

Dialogue Question:

Your feelings when being invited
What fuels those feelings
How the positive feelings impact your inviting
How the negative feelings impact your inviting

With this all in perspective:
What are some of the potential pitfalls in responding to a valuable/important invitation or inviting others to valuable/important things?

Dialogue Question:

What are some of the influences (good or bad, internal or external, personal or cultural) that impact people’s response to an invitation to connect with God/Jesus?

Isaiah 55:1 • Invitation to the hurting
1 Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.

Matthew 11:28-30 • Jesus' call to come
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Isaiah 55:2 • Invitation to what is valuable
2 Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.

Matthew 6:19-21 • True treasure
19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

Isaiah 55:6-7 • Invitation to turn to the Lord
6 Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Romans 12:1-2 • Worthwhile change
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Dialogue Question:

How does the character of God being an inviter impact or give insight into relationship with Him?

Dialogue Question:

What is God calling or inviting you to?

Take It Deeper Questions
Read Isaiah 55.
What will you invite people to in the next year? What will you be invited to in the next year?
How does this chapter give clarity to what God invites us to?
What tends to be the most abstract or confusing to you about God’s invitations?
What sets you up to respond well to God’s invitations?
What is God inviting you to?
How are you focused, encouraged, confused, and/or challenged by this text?

Bible Reading Plan:
Isaiah 55
Matthew 4
Matthew 11
Matthew 14
Matthew 19
John 11