 Weekly Events
COMMUNITY GROUPS February 11th @ 6:30 pm February 13th @ 9 am/Ladies Breakfast February 20th @ 9 am/Men's Breakfast Water Baptisms take place the 2nd Wednesday of every month. The preceding Sunday, Pastor Scot teaches a Water Baptism class in the Prayer Room.
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Welcome!We welcome you to Christian Assembly! Every week the staff prays that God would give us visitors to whom we would be a blessing. We want to help you feel right at home and our hope is that you would feel welcome to worship with us. It won't take you long to discover that this Church is truly a family. Our doors are open, as well as our hearts. We have a number of ministries that could well be of spiritual benefit to you. We would be honored to serve you in an ongoing way and would be equally blessed if Christian Assembly would become a place you could call your spiritual home. Please feel free to call the church at 406.721.6884 if you have any questions regarding Christian Assembly or if we may be of any assistance. In the service of the Savior,
“What Really Counts!” The obvious big deal and good news about Jesus is that His coming alone tells us something crucial about God…we are not in this by ourselves. I suspect if there was not the Gospel of Christ, I could pick from the plethora of gods out there or the Pantheon of gods to which the Greeks referred. Let me say man is somewhere in between desperate and hopeless in rectifying his insatiable quest to find peace at every level and immortality. Peace is not achievable in this world without Christ and he doesn’t know yet that he already possesses immortality by reason of his birth. Conception creates an immortal being which cannot be altered by abortion or death at old age all that can be determined here is where our immortality will be spent forever (Heaven or Hell). The sources to which most individuals look to find peace are at best fleeting and at worst deadly. Finding peace in this world without Christ is impossible because it is temporal, subject to change. People move, walk away, drug induced highs crash, and stocks markets turn on a dime. In this life peace is only found in Christ, because He demonstrated to all who will believe that even death is not a separation. Those in Christ can have abiding peace because He is ever present. Everything we do in this life can count for eternity if it concerns itself with that which is eternal (immortal) now…PEOPLE. That’s what really counts now and forevermore. Mike
“Knowing God” Knowing God does not come natural. What does come natural is being quite the opposite of God. God is infinitely purer, smarter and more powerful than anyone of us or all of us combined. Knowing God is out of our reach; out of our spectrum of understanding or ability to get our heads around Him. Knowing God requires God’s help. God had to find a way to help us know Him and find Him that wouldn’t blow our mind. Obviously man has had trouble in Biblical history just with being introduced to angels. Angels scared men half to death when they appeared to them. I can’t imagine what would happen to a person if God in His glorious full form appeared to them! Actually I can imagine what would happen, because God said to Moses, that no man can see God and live (Ex. 33:20). So we need help in this current state of man we are in, to know God and only God can take the initiative as to how that could happen. In my natural state with my native natural abilities I can’t get it done, nor can you, nor can any person in all of history. So God made a way that the glorious, unapproachable, invisible, thrice holy God could actually become known to sinful limited man—He became a man and dwelt among man accomplishing three things in the process: Saved man from sin; demonstrated to all of humanity how man was created to live and revealed who and what God was like. Let’s draw near to God in 2010!
Mike
Psalm 33 Psalm 33 tells us to rejoice in the Lord. Yet in these times when businesses are failing and the nation slips deeper into sin, it’s easy to focus on those negative realities and not trust in the Lord. Yet as verses 10 and 11 of Psalm 33 tell us that the Lord controls the affairs of men and of nations. His council and His plans, not the plans of men and of nations, will prevail. Let your soul wait for the Lord (vs. 20) and hope in Him (vs. 22) because the eye of the Lord is on those who fear (reverence) Him (vs. 18). Psalm 33 is a great psalm that begins with praise because it ends with hope. So rejoice!
Chris Tootell
“L’Shanah Tovah” Happy New Year! The traditions and customs of people are as varied as there are cultures when it comes to New Year celebrations. Jewish people for example, have a couple of dates each year that have to do with their New Year. For example, their calendar year started at sunset September 18, of 2009. Only the Jewish year is not 2009, it is the year 5770. The Jewish call their New Year of the holiday Rosh Hashanah (head of the year) a term that does not occur in the Bible. The Bible term is known as Yom Ha-Zikkaron, “the Day of Remembrance” or Yom Teruah, “the Day of Sounding of the Shofar.” This day is instituted in (Lev. 23:24 & 25). They greet one another with the phrase “L’shanah tovah” meaning “Good Year.” It is the shortened version of “L’shanah tovah tikatev v’taihatem” meaning “may you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.” The sounding of the Shofar to begin the Day of Remembrance was probably a call to repentance for the whole nation. I have to tell you in all honesty, the Jewish tradition touches my heart. What better way to start our New Year than with the blowing of the Shofar and a call to repentance. What a great way to start by being “inscribed and sealed for a good year.” “L’shanah tovah,” Mike
“Knowing You Jesus!” Jesus came “preaching the gospel of the Kingdom” (Mt. 4:23). The message of the kingdom starts with “repentance” (Mt. 4:17). One by-product of repentance is righteous behavior, but more than that, behavior repentance is primarily a deep work of God’s Spirit in the soul. The effects of this deep work of God are taught to us by the King of the Kingdom Himself in His first and greatest sermon called…the Sermon on the Mount (Mt. 5-7). A careful reading of these three chapters will reveal the “inside” work of the King on the interior of His subjects…poor in spirit, mourners, meek, those that hunger for righteousness, pure in heart, and peacemakers suggest significant change in the mind, will, and emotions of His followers. Jesus will talk about sins, such as murder and adultery, but tell us where those sins originate…“in the heart.” He tells us to love our enemies and that requires a serious change of heart before it shows in any tangible external ways, especially towards our enemies. Charitable deeds, prayer, and fasting need to be done in secret, not for public observation. Jesus will tell us to get the plank out of our own eye and watch out for personal hypocrisy or pretense. External signs and wonders can be achieved in Jesus’ name by people who don’t even know Him. We are entering 2010. It is a new year and I am hearing the Spirit prompting me about going deeper. Going deeper for me is not about working miracles and leading people to Christ, although that would be wonderful. I would love for the supernatural to become a common place thing in my life. But according to Jesus it is possible to do many awesome things and not even know Him (Matt 7:22-23). What I have in mind about going deeper in 2010 is not about “doing” as much as it is about “being” in Him and with Him. Going deeper is about a personal revival in my soul with the Living Christ. Will you join me this year in believing for a personal revival in the core of our being? Revival outside of us starts with repentance and cleansing inside our souls. In all revivals throughout the Old Covenant, it started with people repenting and Temple cleansing. The New Covenant is very clear about this; “…believers are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you…therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's” (1 Cor. 3:16; 1 Cor. 6:20). To be found in Him…and to know Him (Phil. 3:9-10) will be a Happy New Year. Mike Homepage |
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