November 5, 2016 - Church at Worship

Sermon: "In Search of a Connection" (All-Sufficient Savior Part 7 of 7) by Randy Roberts

Pastoral Welcome: Filip Milosavljevic

Children’s Feature: Jordan Roddy

Scripture Reading: “Union with Christ” read by David Colwell and Michelle Laboy

Sermon Notes: Where do you spend the most time in any 24- hour period? Work? In your car, commuting? The gym? Home? Work may be the answer for some. After all, in a world where people work 10-, 12- or 14-hour days, those numbers add up quickly! But while work may be the answer for some, I suspect that for most, the likely answer is home. After all, we’re told that we’re supposed to be sleeping about eight hours a night. If we do that—or something close to it—and if we spend at least an hour or two at home on either side of going to bed and getting up, then we likely spend the largest percentage of our time at home. Or, to put it another way, home is where we dwell. (I love the richness of that word!) Now, what about emotionally and spiritually? When it comes to the life of your mind and heart, where do you dwell? In your thoughts and desires, where do you spend the greatest amount of your time? Or, more simply, what do you think about the most? What do you desire the most? Your job and the earning capacity it offers? Your investments and their return? What you’re going to do when you get off work? A special person? God? In our minds and hearts, we all dwell somewhere. Something, someone, some reality has the lion’s share of our thoughts and our desires. Where we dwell is the place where we experience our deepest connection to life. Jesus makes a key statement about such things that we consider today: “I am the true vine.” Where does that statement challenge us, convict us, encourage us, comfort us? Consider this statement with me today…Randy Roberts, senior pastor