Crawley Community Church

This week Danny takes us into Ephesians 2, and tackles a tough but important topic - total depravity and the effects of sin. "Sin hasn't spare a single part of us. It's seeped into everything, our thoughts, our feelings and wants. Every corner of our lives has been tainted. This goes deep right to the core of who we are". Danny covers the 3 enemies 1. System and culture of the world 2. Satan our accuser actively working to intimidate & bring fear 3. The flesh - our desire to gratify our selfish human nature Danny also said most times "we don't think we need to be saved by God, we only think we need some help from God". Things actually are worse that we care to admit and we need saving.

This week Steve continues our series in Ephesians with "Open the eyes of our hearts"

Listen to Jim explain what New Ground Sunday is all about, as he shares about Marriage as a picture of Christ with his bride us the Church from Ephesians 5. Also prophetic words for Crawley Community Church are shared at the end.

This week Danny looks at Ephesians Chapter One verses 13 and 14. "And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory."

Danny takes us into part two on the Ephesians series explaining the 3 Spiritual blessings: CHOSEN ADOPTED REDEEMED

Danny kicks off our new series on Ephesians "Foundations of Faith". The central point of Paul's letter to the church in Ephesus is what God did through the historic work of Jesus Christ, and continues to do through the person of the Holy Spirit through every believer in His church. Chapter One goes into the many Spiritual blessings we have in Christ.

Steve wraps up our series on Belonging looking at Acts 2: 42-47. The believers were: ONE- Devoted to the Apostle's teaching. TWO - Devoted to Fellowship (leaving individualism behind). THREE - Devoted to the Breaking of bread. FOUR - Devoted to Prayer. Steve makes the point its easy to grow a crowd, its more difficult to grow a new believer community where people belong to God, and each other and are serving, giving and growing together, everyone included and everyone playing their part. We can't battle and wrestle and hold onto Jesus's teaching without the Holy Spirit and without his church. We are designed to belong.

In part two of our series on Belonging, Danny takes us to Luke 12 -where Jesus was telling his disciples about the rich man's terrific crop and wanting to build bigger barns to store up the wealth for himself. The bigger barns were for his own glory and to satisfy his own greed, loving money and security more than God. Danny explains from James 4:1 that its our desires within us that most often lead us astray, we like to spend money on ourselves but Jesus made the point that, that very night the rich man's life was demanded from him, and he was a fool for getting his priorities wrong. Life is short, no-one knows when a "Black Swan" event will come and we have less time than we think to be generous with our lives.

Steve kicks off our new series called "Belonging" this week. He makes it super practical on how you can get involved with what God is doing and how you might be able to serve, give and grow.

Steve closes out the The Journey series with Baptisms of new believers and a very short sermon

Justin Fletcher talks about Jesus' second coming, which is absolutely part of the full Gospel message. He explains how we always need to be ready and prepared and live like he is coming back any minute or moment as no-one knows the time or hour of his return, but only that the bible is clear we need to be ready. Just as we would never be caught with a dead phone battery - in the parable of the 10 virgins - we can't be like the 5 virgins who ran out of oil, went out to replenish it last minute and were not ready.

Aref this week preaches and we baptised 5 new believers

Nathan Blackburn takes us through the importance of Community in our Christian Journey.

Debbie Fox takes us through part two of our series called The Journey. Debbie looks at John 4 with Jesus talking to the Samaritan woman at the well. She looks at three things in this passage: ONE: Jesus breaks down barriers of prejudice, TWO: Delighting in the encounter with Jesus THREE: God offers us eternal living water to sustain us.

Danny opens our new Series "The Journey" with Ecclesiastes 3:11 "He has set eternity in the hearts of men". Danny asks if we're feeling like something is missing? What makes our life worth living? God has made everything beautiful and appropriate in it's time - Also Ecclesiastes quoted...but often God makes us wait (and we don't like waiting for stuff). Danny proves us to think through Matthew 4:4 where Jesus talks through "Man shall not live by bread alone" - what are we using to sustain us and give us a sense of purpose outside of God?

Steve closes out our MULTIPLY series talking about this is our MOMENT to trust God for more, what that means for us as we explore 2 new services. Listen to hear his heart and what God has shown our leadership team

This week Steve baptises new believers and explains why the believers baptism matters

This week Stu continues with our Multiply series talking on "The Mess of Multiplication". "The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace'." Max Lucado

This week Joseph Odesesan takes us through part 7 of our Multiply series and focuses on MOMENTUM. Key Scripture is John 17:20-21 ‘I do not pray only for these people, my disciples. I pray also for those people who will believe in me because of my disciples' message. I pray that all of them will become united . You, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they also will be united in us. Then the world's people will believe that you sent me.

This Sunday we enjoyed having Biro unpack Luke 16, being a good manager and steward rather than being unfaithful. He challenged us to examine how we are managing our own lives, our skills and abilities, our finances, and our relationships. This passage challenge us to be faithful with how we steward God's resources.