This week's message, Pastor Rocky East dug into the question "What does it mean to be fully engaged with my friends?" Pastor Rocky talks about the positives and negatives of friendships. He began explaining the story of David and Jonathan and how they stood for each other and we willing to defend each other. Both of them respected and trusted each other.  they were able to express their feelings, emotions, and opinions with each other out of love. For the negative view of friendship, we looked at the story of Job and how his friends did nothing but bicker and tear Job down. These people claimed to be his friends, but didn't support him whatsoever. Lastly, Pastor Rocky brings to us "Friendship Evangelism." This is not like Job's friends where we constantly tear someone down, but rather we turn to God and say, "God, I am going to commit myself to this person and I'm going to bring them to this church and I'm going to make friends with them. I'm going to bring them in with me, sit with them, call them when they aren't at church. I'm going to be their mentor." God is asking the church to do this, "I am making my appeal to world through you." Are we going to ignore the words of God? Let us begin getting Fully Engaged With Our Friends!

Fully Engaged is a new series exploring a few different questions: What is the impact of a fully committed life? If we were fully committed in our walk with God, what could be the impact upon our friends, our church, and our city?

August 19th, 2012: Rocky East - Fully Engaged In My Walk With God

August 26th, 2012: Rocky East - Fully Engaged With My Friends

September 2nd, 2012 : Rick McClain - Full Engaged In My Church

September 9th, 2012: Rick McClain - Fully Engaged In My City

The title of this chapter leads directly into what this message is about. It leaves us with a question, "Who is this man?" Pastor Rick digs deeper into understand Jesus. Is Jesus a good man? Did His life reflect the characteristics of someone who has lived a good life. Is Jesus a crazy man? We have heard about Jesus being "crazy good," but does that qualify Him as a crazy man? We can see Him change water to wine, freeing people of demons, feeding thousands of people with a little bit of food, bringing a man back from the dead and didn't charge anyone a cent for doing this. Is Jesus the ultimate con man? Let's listen to the message, "Jesus, the Son of God" and find out exactly who He is.

In this message, we learn of how Jesus was "No Ordinary Man." We learn about Jesus' ministry through his miracles, such as, Him feeding the 5,000 people on five loaves of bread and two fish, calming the winds and the waves, and casting demons from a man. These miracles are the evidence to prove who Jesus truly is. Through his miracles and through his message we can see a glimpse of the Kingdom of God. All our storms will be silenced, the dead will rise, the demons will be banished and the diseases healed. He is worthy to be called our King. His ministry displayed to us his "royal authority." This unordinary man is Jesus the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Not only is this unordinary man our King, He is our Father. Who is your King?

Debbie Evans and Kathy Dixon discuss Chapter 23 of THE STORY. This chapter covers Jesus' early ministry, including his baptism, temptation, and his conversation with Nicodemus.