Seeker or Snacker?

Seeker or Snacker? Ed Ollie, Aug 27-28, 2011

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Ed Ollie, Aug 27-28, 2011

Are you a seeker or a snacker? This weekend we take a look at what it is that motivates us to come to church and what it takes to truly receive the best that God has to offer.

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<blockquote>“You preach what you need to hear. You sing your life, and you want it to count, I suppose. I’m hoping people are tired of singers whose mouths are filled with words that were written for them and they don’t believe. Their arms and legs move in directions that other people choreograph.” –Bono</blockquote> ÷ There are three primary ______________ ______________ — which ______________ you most deeply? 1. ______________2. ______________3. ______________TRUTH: There are two different types of people in the world ______________ or ______________. Which are you? ______________: .People genuinely ______________ God and ______________ ______________. ______________: People who want Christian ______________ and ______________ ______________ the church.  Mark 8:34-38, “Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.  For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? If    anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this  adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.’” ______________ ÷ Only when we  recognize our identity in Christ ______________, will we have the  ______________ and ______________ to change. Romans 12:1-2, “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” ÷ Jesus had compassion on both ______________ ______________ and ______________ ______________ people, teaching them the gospel. Mark 10:28-31, “Peter began to say to him, ‘Look, we have left everything and followed you.’ Jesus said, ‘Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or   sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news, who will not    receive a hundred-fold now in this age-house, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields with persecutions and in the age to come  eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.’” TRUTH: There are two kinds of people in this world, ______________ or ______________, which are you? ÷ So, how do I become a ______________?1.  I’m learning that, ______________ ______________, God has given me ______________ I need to live a godly life. 2 Peter 1:3, “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.” 2.  I’m learning that ______________ is the key that unlocks the door of ______________ in my life.Hebrews 11: God requires ______________ and ______________ 3. ______________others is the key to ______________. Mark 10:41-45, “You know that among the gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all. For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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