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This Week at Cross Church | Moving to Communion, Christmas Eve, and 2015
This Sunday in all of our services, we will observe communion with the Lord’s church. It will be a powerful and meaningful experience. I would urge you to sit with your family. If you have a friend who does not have family here, ask them to sit with you this week.
I will lead us in a time around the Lord’s Table, in what we call The Lord’s Supper or communion. We have two ordinances in our fellowship. One is baptism and the other is The Lord’s Supper. Prayerfully, both will be celebrated in each of our services this Sunday. You can see here what we believe about the Lord’s Supper and Baptism.
Pray for Sunday. Pray for yourself. Prepare yourself and your family spiritually. Let’s pray for a special time of worship, reflection, and celebration together.
7 Christmas Eve Services Offered by Cross Church
We hope one of our Christmas Eve service times will work for you and your family. While we always encourage our people to attend their normal campus on Christmas Eve, we realize that a time at a different campus might work better for your family. Please choose a time and join us for one of our seven services.
Dress for the services is whatever your family is accustomed to wearing for Christmas Eve, whether it’s dressy or casual. Below is a list of our services offered on Christmas Eve.
- Chapel on the Creeks – 1:00 p.m.
- Fayetteville – 3:30 & 5:00 p.m.
- Springdale – 4:00 p.m.
- Pinnacle Hills – 5:00 p.m.
- College Avenue – 5:00 p.m.
- Neosho – 5:00 p.m.
Invite others to our Christmas Eve services and share through social networking. We want all of Northwest Arkansas to feel at home at our church on Christmas Eve.
As We Move to 2015
As we move to 2015, let’s insure we leave 2014 right with God and right with others. Ask yourself these three questions:
Is everything in your relationship with God clear and right? Insure all sin is confessed and repented of, moving forward to the future.- Is all right with God financially? Insure you have honored God with at least 10% of all He has entrusted to you in 2014 through your salaries, bonuses, stock and dividends, and all other matters. Through our local church and its Ministry Budget, we should give the first tenth of everything to the Lord. A special way for you to join in reaching the world for Jesus Christ is to give to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. This offering directly helps in funding our full-time missionaries around the world. Also, consider giving to the Reaching Our Mission offering, which allows Cross Church to commit even more to our mission efforts regionally, nationally and internationally; as well as supporting church planting and our own Cross Church School of Ministry.
Are you right with others? Do not leave 2014 with resentment, anger, or bitterness towards someone else. It hurts you more than it hurts them. If you have been hurt, forgive, and move forward. Choose to be right with God and with others.
If you are in town on the Sundays of December 21 or 28, be sure to be in worship. Attending worship reminds us of the meaning and power of Christmas. I sure hope to see you here soon at Cross Church.
Yours for the Great Commission,
Ronnie W. Floyd
Dr. Ronnie Floyd is the President & CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.
This Week at Cross Church | Christmas Worship, God’s Word, and More to Come
Sunday night at Pinnacle Hills, our Global Worship Team, under the leadership of Julio Arriola, did a fabulous job leading our choir, band, and orchestra to produce a phenomenal worship experience for several thousand people. Our children also did a wonderful job under the direction of Kim Darr and her leaders. I am also thankful for the technical and video teams under the terrific leadership of Brian Dunaway that supported this entire evening with excellence and servanthood. To everyone involved, 1,000 thank yous!
Since the building was jam-packed along with several hundred people in the Gatheria, we will begin to offer an additional worship experience for this Christmas night of worship next year. We will study this and determine our strategy sometime in 2015.
Oh, Come Let Us Adore Him Series
This coming Sunday, we will conclude our series of messages on Luke 1-2. It has been a fabulous experience for me personally to go through this study and to teach God’s Word weekly. I believe as we near the moments of Christmas, this series will come to life for many.
I really do pray you will be with us this coming Sunday for our final message in this series. May God use it in all of our lives.
More To Come
As we move toward Christmas Day and 2015, I pray you will join us throughout this entire season. Support what our church is doing with your presence, but also with your financial support.
Priority #1: Honoring God with the first tenth of all God has given us this year, giving it through the Ministry Budget, which touches absolutely every ministry in our church.
Priority #2: Giving a sacrificial gift to our Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. If you gave $50 last year, take the challenge and give $75 this year. If you gave $1,000 last year, give at least $1,500 this year. Join Jeana and me in giving to our International Missions offering generously.
Priority #3: Giving a special Christmas gift to “Reaching Our Mission”, which supports our church planting efforts globally, our Cross Church School of Ministry, our ministry opportunities locally, and our mission efforts globally.
Thank you for all you are doing for the Lord in attending, serving, witnessing, and giving.
Yours for the Great Commission,
Ronnie W. Floyd
Dr. Ronnie Floyd is the President & CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.