Faith-filled vision We are STSA – Part 6 June 17, 2012

FAITH-FILLED VISIONWe are STSA – Part 6

June 17, 2012

S T S A

Limitless Acceptance

S T S A

Authentic Community

Limitless Acceptance

S T S A

Transformational Communal Worship

Authentic Community

Limitless Acceptance

S T S A

Passionate Pursuit

Transformational Communal Worship

Authentic Community

Limitless Acceptance

S T S A

Christ-Like Integrity

Passionate Pursuit

Transformational Communal Worship

Authentic Community

Limitless Acceptance

S T S A

Christ-Like Integrity Faith-filled Vision

Passionate Pursuit

Transformational Communal Worship

Authentic Community

Limitless Acceptance

S T S A

We believe in a big God and we rely on Him to do extraordinary things in our lives. We are not surprised when God does a miracle; we are more surprised when He doesn’t.

FAITH-FILLED VISION

The biggest mistake you can make is thinking about God in human terms

and with human limits

“To whom then will you liken Me, or to whom shall I be equal?” says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things…”

Isaiah 40:25

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

Isaiah 55:9

Example of Abraham

But Abram said, “Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” Then Abram said, “Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!”

Genesis 15:2-3

“Then He brought him outside and said, Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them. And He said to him, So shall your descendants be.”

Genesis 15:5

Psalm 147:4-5“He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name. Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.”

1. CHALLENGE ASSUMPTIONS

“And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.”

1 Corinthians 8:2

A Lesson from Kids

“Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Matthew 18:3

2. DREAM BIG, PRAY BOLD

God is for us!

The greatest moments in life are when human impotence & Divine

Omnipotence intersect

But it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early…and marched around the city seven times in the same manner… And the seventh time it happened, when the priests blew the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people: “Shout, for the Lord has given you the city! Now the city shall be doomed by the Lord to destruction, it and all who are in it…

Joshua 6:15

…So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.”

Joshua 6:16

We exist to transform lives in the DC metro area through an authentic relationship with Jesus Christ founded upon the life and teachings of the Orthodox faith.

Our Mission Statement

“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think,

according to the power that works in us” Ephesians 3:20