Midweek Announcements 09.02.26
This Week's Sermon Scripture
Leviticus 26:11-13
Deep Discipleship and Awana begin tonight (5:30-6:00 dinner, 6-7:30 content)!
Don't forget to bring your journals, do your homework, bring your Bibles to Awana, and come early if you can! Dinner will begin being served at 5, if you are able to come earlier than 5:30.
Youth Group continuing at the church building
Who: 5th-12th graders
Where: 2302 Fox Dr
When: Sundays, 2:15-4 PM
Women's Prayer and Worship Night
Come join us Friday, September 11, 7-9pm as we create a space for the women of CC to connect with God through prayer and worship. We'll have music playing throughout the evening and you can come and go as you please. This will be a space where you can pray with others that are there or individually. This is a freeform evening without a lot of structure, but a space for you to come to meet with God and pray with others. We hope you can join us!
Men's Breakfast
Come join the men of Christ Community for breakfast and Craig teaching and leading a discussion on Biblical Manhood. Saturday, September 12, 7-9am at the church.
RSVP
Midweek Prayer
Every Tuesday, 12:15-12:45p at the church, is midweek prayer, and we invite you all to join us for 30 minutes of connecting with God together!
Save the Date- Men's Retreat!
Please mark your calendars for this fall's Christ Community Men's Retreat on October 30-31, 2026 at Twin Lakes Camp in Hillsboro, Indiana (approximately 1 hour east of C-U in Indiana). The retreat will start with dinner on Friday and will end mid-afternoon on Saturday. The event will include Bible teaching, discussion, and fellowship - providing a great opportunity to connect with other men at Christ Community. More details and registration information to follow!
Lost & Found
We have a lost and found bin at our welcome table. Please see Alyssa at that table if you are missing something!
Midweek Manna, gospel culture (Ray Ortlund) edition:
1). TGC Article
2). A quick, helpful video explanation of gospel culture.
3). Quotes from Ray on honoring one another and walking in the light.
Honor
As we outdo one another in showing honor (Romans 12:10) , we are calling out the true honor in each image bearer.
From an article Ray wrote:
As Paul Tournier wrote in Guilt and Grace, pages 15-16, “In everyday life we are continually soaked in this unhealthy atmosphere of mutual criticism, so much so that we are not always aware of it and we find ourselves drawn unwittingly into an implacable vicious circle: every reproach evokes a feeling of guilt in the critic as much as in the one criticized, and each one gains relief from his guilt in any way he can, by criticizing other people and in self-justification.” We are drenched every day in this fault-finding spirit of worldliness.
But we who are destined for glory are now commanded by God to create alternative cultures of honor, called churches, where people are lifted up, their accomplishments celebrated, their strengths admired, their weaknesses forgiven. This new relational environment has high standards, in keeping with the glory of the gospel itself.
Faithfulness to the gospel requires more of us than adherence to a doctrinal statement; it also requires of us a whole new way to treat one another, a way marked by glory and honor. Who couldn’t flourish there?
Walking in the Light
A heart aloof from God grows aloof from others. It engages in merciless comparisons and endless faultfinding. Therefore, all restoration begins by going back to God first, prodigals that we are.
The wonderful thing is that, when we lose our way, God is not hard to find again. He has made himself very findable. He is “in the light” — right out there in the place of truth, honesty, openness, confession, and owning up. God himself awaits us there. We sinners can go to him freely through the cross of Christ. There in the light, but only in the light, everything gets better in our relationships with one another too.
The price we pay is to face ourselves. That is humiliating and painful. It’s why we shun the light. There are episodes in our past that we don’t want to think about — harsh words, acts of betrayal, broken promises, and worse. We shove these memories down into the darkness of our excuses and blame-shifting. We refuse to call sin “sin.” We feel too threatened by what we have done even to admit it to ourselves, much less confess it to others. But those places of deepest shame are where the Lord Jesus loves us the most tenderly. Is there any reason not to walk in his light together, where we recover fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin?
It is so refreshing to come back out into the light of honesty again, where we first met the Lord. It is there that ex-friends can be regained by love. It is there that Jesus is glorified in the eyes of the world.
(The Gospel: How the Church Portrays the Beauty of Christ, Ray Ortlund, p117)
Don't forget to bring your journals, do your homework, bring your Bibles to Awana, and come early if you can! Dinner will begin being served at 5, if you are able to come earlier than 5:30.
Youth Group continuing at the church building
Who: 5th-12th graders
Where: 2302 Fox Dr
When: Sundays, 2:15-4 PM
Women's Prayer and Worship Night
Come join us Friday, September 11, 7-9pm as we create a space for the women of CC to connect with God through prayer and worship. We'll have music playing throughout the evening and you can come and go as you please. This will be a space where you can pray with others that are there or individually. This is a freeform evening without a lot of structure, but a space for you to come to meet with God and pray with others. We hope you can join us!
Men's Breakfast
Come join the men of Christ Community for breakfast and Craig teaching and leading a discussion on Biblical Manhood. Saturday, September 12, 7-9am at the church.
RSVP
Midweek Prayer
Every Tuesday, 12:15-12:45p at the church, is midweek prayer, and we invite you all to join us for 30 minutes of connecting with God together!
Save the Date- Men's Retreat!
Please mark your calendars for this fall's Christ Community Men's Retreat on October 30-31, 2026 at Twin Lakes Camp in Hillsboro, Indiana (approximately 1 hour east of C-U in Indiana). The retreat will start with dinner on Friday and will end mid-afternoon on Saturday. The event will include Bible teaching, discussion, and fellowship - providing a great opportunity to connect with other men at Christ Community. More details and registration information to follow!
Lost & Found
We have a lost and found bin at our welcome table. Please see Alyssa at that table if you are missing something!
Midweek Manna, gospel culture (Ray Ortlund) edition:
1). TGC Article
2). A quick, helpful video explanation of gospel culture.
3). Quotes from Ray on honoring one another and walking in the light.
Honor
As we outdo one another in showing honor (Romans 12:10) , we are calling out the true honor in each image bearer.
From an article Ray wrote:
As Paul Tournier wrote in Guilt and Grace, pages 15-16, “In everyday life we are continually soaked in this unhealthy atmosphere of mutual criticism, so much so that we are not always aware of it and we find ourselves drawn unwittingly into an implacable vicious circle: every reproach evokes a feeling of guilt in the critic as much as in the one criticized, and each one gains relief from his guilt in any way he can, by criticizing other people and in self-justification.” We are drenched every day in this fault-finding spirit of worldliness.
But we who are destined for glory are now commanded by God to create alternative cultures of honor, called churches, where people are lifted up, their accomplishments celebrated, their strengths admired, their weaknesses forgiven. This new relational environment has high standards, in keeping with the glory of the gospel itself.
Faithfulness to the gospel requires more of us than adherence to a doctrinal statement; it also requires of us a whole new way to treat one another, a way marked by glory and honor. Who couldn’t flourish there?
Walking in the Light
A heart aloof from God grows aloof from others. It engages in merciless comparisons and endless faultfinding. Therefore, all restoration begins by going back to God first, prodigals that we are.
The wonderful thing is that, when we lose our way, God is not hard to find again. He has made himself very findable. He is “in the light” — right out there in the place of truth, honesty, openness, confession, and owning up. God himself awaits us there. We sinners can go to him freely through the cross of Christ. There in the light, but only in the light, everything gets better in our relationships with one another too.
The price we pay is to face ourselves. That is humiliating and painful. It’s why we shun the light. There are episodes in our past that we don’t want to think about — harsh words, acts of betrayal, broken promises, and worse. We shove these memories down into the darkness of our excuses and blame-shifting. We refuse to call sin “sin.” We feel too threatened by what we have done even to admit it to ourselves, much less confess it to others. But those places of deepest shame are where the Lord Jesus loves us the most tenderly. Is there any reason not to walk in his light together, where we recover fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin?
It is so refreshing to come back out into the light of honesty again, where we first met the Lord. It is there that ex-friends can be regained by love. It is there that Jesus is glorified in the eyes of the world.
(The Gospel: How the Church Portrays the Beauty of Christ, Ray Ortlund, p117)
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