Crawley Community Church

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.

Steve provokes us to grow in not only proclaiming the gospel but demonstrating it too continuing our 'Mind the Gap' preaching moments.

Justin Fletcher this week takes us through Part 6 of Multiply looking at THE MESSAGE.

Danny this week takes us through "Model" as part 5 of Multiply

This week, proud Dad of four... Nathan Blackburn looks at part 4 of Multiply, "METHODS," and key verse Acts 9:31: "So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied." He makes 3 big points. 1. BE BOLD (Step out and share Jesus) 2. JOIN IN (Do life in community - you can't walk this alone) 3. WALK CLOSE. (to the Spirit and Fear of God) He concludes with a powerful reminder from Zech 4:6, 'Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit.' This verse underscores the crucial role of the Holy Spirit in our methods, reminding us to always seek His guidance and rely on His power.

Continuing our Multiply Series, Danny this week preaches on "The Mapping" from Acts 17:19 "Then they took him and brought him to a meeting at Mars Hill where they said to him "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?"

In 6 minutes, Steve talks through what Jesus asks all of us to do from Mark chapter 1 verse 17. This three-word challenge changes EVERYTHING. At once, they left their nets and followed him. What does this call mean for you?

Danny takes us into Week 2 - The Mission of the Church and what does it mean for us to be Missional. Danny takes us back to Genesis 12 vs 1-3, we walk through some church history together, examine the pitfalls of having an "attractional church" consumer mentality. A church that exists only for itself and its own enlargement ends up being a witness against the gospel. He unpacks what does "missional" mean for each of us and why this is a biblical approach vs. being an attractional church.