Last night in flipside (11/30)!!!

It was another awesome night at flipside!!! If you missed it, you really missed a great time. We had a great turnout and you can tell that a lot of flipsiders left challenged. Here is a recap on what we hit on last night as we began our new 3 week series titled, “Characters” :

  • There are so many good stories found in the Bible of people that had their lives totally transformed by God
  • When you find yourself reading these stories, it would sometimes seem like the story is not ever real.
  • You can easily find yourself thinking that there is no way this really happened and how this story can easily be turned into a movie
  • Last night’s character is someone that doesn’t even have a name and its the kind of character that no one would even notice
  • She just happened to be at the right place at the right times and met the Savior of the world.
  • Because of this meeting, she was written about in the Bible
  • That women is the “Women at the Well”
  • Check out this video clip from youtube, here is the link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOijPEYF_qo)
  • Read John 4 and you can find the story of the “Women at the Well.”
  • There are a couple of things that you can learn from the women at the well…
  • #1- When you let HIM make you new, everything about you totally changes
  • We see purity as a perfect condition. Our kind of purity means spotless in the past tense and unspoiled in the present tense.
  • Its totally different with God, when He takes us, really think about this…
  • We are used up, played with, out-of-the-box condition and made new again.
  • His kind of purity is future tense.
  • When we meet Jesus, He already knows our junk, but He came to make all things new!!!
  • Read Revelation 21:5 & 6….
  • #2- When He makes us new and when we allow Him to satisfy our thirst, He will begin to flow out of us.
  • Read John 4:13 & 14
  • So, its like this…
  • If we would run towards God like He is our only source of life, then in turn it will overflow in us into other people
  • #3- When you realize what you’ve been given, you’ll want to give it to others
  • You hear all the time the importance of spreading the “Gospel”
  • The word Gospel means “good news.”
  • The good news is not just about the story of Jesus, it’s also the story of Jesus working through your life!!!
  • This women was not just caught up in herself as you can see…
  • Read John 4:39-42
  • This women was made new and because of that, she told everyone about it.
  • When was the last time you told someone about how Jesus made you new?
  • The very things that Jesus has done for all of us, should be good enough for us to let other know about Jesus!!!

Really take sometime and think about… Isn’t it worth telling other people what HE has done in your life. Reach out to your friends and stop beating yourself up over your past. You are made NEW through Christ and what He has done in your life!!! Make a difference where you go and come expecting God to do something amazing in your life next week. Next week we will hit on “Jonathan.”

-Pastor Leo

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