One Church….Two Locations
As many of you know, on Easter we opened a new location of Team Church. We opened a new campus in what some would call an unlikely place…….the southern part of Lancaster County, SC. The Rec Center we rent out each Sunday is located in Kershaw, SC. This new location is going very well as people from all over that area are hearing about a new church that is strategically designed to Reach and Impact their local community!
You can and should stay up with what is going on there via our website that has a link for the Lancaster campus. See the great staff we are building there! Moreover, the campus Pastor there, Steve Miller has his own BLOG.
Here is something great that shows why we have a philosophy of One Church…..Two Locations. For the first time, on August 14th, we will have two simultaneous Reach & Impact events happening at once. Here at the Matthews Location…..we will host our free Worship Concert. This will be a great time of worship and will kick off our new Activate series the following Sunday. This concert is designed for you and for you to bring a friend.
At the Lancaster location we are having a Community Movie Night. We are using the fields at Kershaw Elementary School to set up a large outdoor movie! It will be free for the community! We are linking this community event with our Back To School Supplies drive that we are doing for the kids at Kershaw Elem. When people come….. we are asking them to bring some supplies to share with the kids in need. We will take what they bring and add to it what Team Church there has already collected. The supplies will be given to the school that week as school opens up!
One Church…but on the same night…one hour from each other…..major Impact will happen at both locations. That is cool! As you know, we desire to open other locations as God leads and gives the people and resources. One day in the future, on a similar night….we may have 5-10 locations all doing something of worth in their own community on the same night.
I hope that you will choose to attend one of these great events on August 14th. If you would like to join a team of people going down to Team Church in Lancaster for a fun night of fun and serving for the family……please email Kristine Wood for details.
Have a great day! Here is Romans 2
Romans 2
1 You may think you can condemn such people, but you are just as bad, and you have no excuse! When you say they are wicked and should be punished, you are condemning yourself, for you who judge others do these very same things. 2 And we know that God, in his justice, will punish anyone who does such things. 3 Since you judge others for doing these things, why do you think you can avoid God’s judgment when you do the same things? 4 Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin?
5 But because you are stubborn and refuse to turn from your sin, you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself. For a day of anger is coming, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. 6 He will judge everyone according to what they have done. 7 He will give eternal life to those who keep on doing good, seeking after the glory and honor and immortality that God offers. 8 But he will pour out his anger and wrath on those who live for themselves, who refuse to obey the truth and instead live lives of wickedness. 9 There will be trouble and calamity for everyone who keeps on doing what is evil—for the Jew first and also for the Gentile. 10 But there will be glory and honor and peace from God for all who do good—for the Jew first and also for the Gentile. 11 For God does not show favoritism.
12 When the Gentiles sin, they will be destroyed, even though they never had God’s written law. And the Jews, who do have God’s law, will be judged by that law when they fail to obey it. 13 For merely listening to the law doesn’t make us right with God. It is obeying the law that makes us right in his sight. 14 Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it. 15 They demonstrate that God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right. 16 And this is the message I proclaim—that the day is coming when God, through Christ Jesus, will judge everyone’s secret life.
17 You who call yourselves Jews are relying on God’s law, and you boast about your special relationship with him. 18 You know what he wants; you know what is right because you have been taught his law. 19 You are convinced that you are a guide for the blind and a light for people who are lost in darkness. 20 You think you can instruct the ignorant and teach children the ways of God. For you are certain that God’s law gives you complete knowledge and truth.
21 Well then, if you teach others, why don’t you teach yourself? You tell others not to steal, but do you steal? 22 You say it is wrong to commit adultery, but do you commit adultery? You condemn idolatry, but do you use items stolen from pagan temples?23 You are so proud of knowing the law, but you dishonor God by breaking it. 24 No wonder the Scriptures say, “The Gentiles blaspheme the name of God because of you.”
25 The Jewish ceremony of circumcision has value only if you obey God’s law. But if you don’t obey God’s law, you are no better off than an uncircumcised Gentile. 26 And if the Gentiles obey God’s law, won’t God declare them to be his own people? 27 In fact, uncircumcised Gentiles who keep God’s law will condemn you Jews who are circumcised and possess God’s law but don’t obey it.
28 For you are not a true Jew just because you were born of Jewish parents or because you have gone through the ceremony of circumcision. 29 No, a true Jew is one whose heart is right with God. And true circumcision is not merely obeying the letter of the law; rather, it is a change of heart produced by God’s Spirit. And a person with a changed heart seeks praise from God, not from people.
