Common Cents: Part 3 - Worry
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October 20, 2024
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Halloween On Mission - October 20-31
Halloween is right around the corner, and it’s an incredible time for you to live on mission in your neighborhood. From neighborhood pumpkin carvings, to reverse trick-or-treating, to making your house the best stop in the neighborhood on Halloween night, and more - there are tons of ways for you to engage your neighborhoods this Halloween. Let us know how you’re going to live on mission this Halloween! Visit onelifeknox.com/halloween.
Kid City Halloween Dress Up Sunday - October 27
Kid City is having a dress-up Sunday for Halloween next week on October 27th! Be sure to wear your favorite costume and get ready for a great day of dressed-up fun. Plus, we’re having a costume contest during both services. We can’t wait to see you there!
OneLife Students, United Night - October 30th
Next Wednesday night, October 30th, our middle & high school students from both campuses will be coming together for a spooky United Night. There will be games, a costume contest, student led worship, and a great message from our Student Director Matt. It will take place at the East Campus at 6:30pm and we will wrap up at 8:15pm. Also, parents are invited to attend as well! For more information mark the OneLife Students box on the Connection Card.
College and Young Adults Micro Church
This fall OneLife has launched a micro church specifically for adults ages 18 to 25. If that is you and you aren’t currently connected with a micro church then now is the time! For more information simply mark the Micro Church box on your Connection Card and we will get you connected!
Baptism
If you’ve given your life to Jesus but haven’t gone public with your story through baptism then it’s time to take that step! Mark the baptism box on your Connection Card and we’ll help you get started.
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GIVE BACK
Give Jesus your best! Make a one-time tithe or offering or to set up a recurring tithe or offering: Click Here To Give Online.
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1. My value is greater than I realize.
2. Worry is connected to my attempt to be God.
3. Worry is natural for the faithless.
4. When God is God I have all that I need.
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START TALKING
What are some examples of things in our culture that you don't have to worry about because someone else is making sure it is taken care of?
What are things that people in other places or time periods had to worry about but we don't have to because it is taken care of for us?
START THINKING
Read Matthew 6:25-26.
Have you ever stopped to consider where the birds get their food? Probably not! When you consider that humans are more valuable to God than birds, how does this illustration help you understand His desire to take care of you?
Why do you think Jesus asks this rhetorical question: Are you not more valuable than they are?
Do you think some people would answer this question differently? Why or why not? How would you explain to someone else the point that Jesus is trying to make here?
START SHARING
Read Matthew 6:27.
This verse asks an obvious question with an obvious answer. Yet, we often worry about the things we cannot control! To practice this, each person in the micro church take a moment to do the following:
1. Write down your top three worries that you find yourself dwelling on from time to time or even daily.
2. Beside each worry write whether there is anything you can about it or not.
Now, each person share your worries and whether you can do anything about it or not. What do you notice about the worries that you wrote down and that you heard shared?
Read Matthew 6:24.
This is the verse that comes right before Jesus tells us not to worry. Why do you think that Jesus links worry and money? Why do you think he links worry to what (or Who) is your master?
START DOING
Read Matthew 6:31-33.
What are steps that you can take this week to seek first His kingdom and His righteousness? How can or will this help you to keep your eyes focused in the right direction rather than focused on the things you would otherwise dwell on?
Take time this week to spend in more focused prayer where you can make a complete worry list of all the things that you find yourself worried about. Write beside each whether or not you can do something about it. For those things that you can do something about, make it a to-do list and pray for God's direction and guidance for each. For those that you can't do anything about, pray over each of those and give them to Jesus. Ask him to help you let those go so that He can be God and not you!
START PRAYING
Pray for each other and the step that you committed to take in the above question. Pray that we will be committed to choosing Jesus first and foremost above all else. Pray that our minds will dwell on Jesus and NOT dwell - aka worry - about anything else so that He and He alone will be God in our lives!
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CONNECTION CARDS
Be sure to fill out the online Connection Card to let us know next steps, prayer requests, or other information you'd like to share, click here.
_____________________
MULTIPLICATION
Share spiritual/missional conversations you've had where you live, work, and play:
- Who did you have a conversation with that took a spiritual/missional turn this week?
- What questions did you ask to discover where God is at work in their life, even if they are not aware?
- How were you able to share your story of life change or how you have experienced Jesus?
- How can you be intentional this week with people where you live, work, and play to have spiritual/missional conversations if the opportunity arises?
- Who in your life do you think could be disciple-able or open to spiritual/missional conversations?
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WHAT'S NEXT?
- Discuss the next step for your micro church. When will we gather again, and which purpose will it fulfill (missions, fellowship/care, growth, worship, multiplication)?/giveback/giveback
- Discuss the next step for your micro church. When will we gather again, and which purpose will it fulfill (missions, fellowship/care, growth, worship, multiplication)?
October 20, 2024
Sermon Page
YouVersion
Sermon Slides
_____________________
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Halloween On Mission - October 20-31
Halloween is right around the corner, and it’s an incredible time for you to live on mission in your neighborhood. From neighborhood pumpkin carvings, to reverse trick-or-treating, to making your house the best stop in the neighborhood on Halloween night, and more - there are tons of ways for you to engage your neighborhoods this Halloween. Let us know how you’re going to live on mission this Halloween! Visit onelifeknox.com/halloween.
Kid City Halloween Dress Up Sunday - October 27
Kid City is having a dress-up Sunday for Halloween next week on October 27th! Be sure to wear your favorite costume and get ready for a great day of dressed-up fun. Plus, we’re having a costume contest during both services. We can’t wait to see you there!
OneLife Students, United Night - October 30th
Next Wednesday night, October 30th, our middle & high school students from both campuses will be coming together for a spooky United Night. There will be games, a costume contest, student led worship, and a great message from our Student Director Matt. It will take place at the East Campus at 6:30pm and we will wrap up at 8:15pm. Also, parents are invited to attend as well! For more information mark the OneLife Students box on the Connection Card.
College and Young Adults Micro Church
This fall OneLife has launched a micro church specifically for adults ages 18 to 25. If that is you and you aren’t currently connected with a micro church then now is the time! For more information simply mark the Micro Church box on your Connection Card and we will get you connected!
Baptism
If you’ve given your life to Jesus but haven’t gone public with your story through baptism then it’s time to take that step! Mark the baptism box on your Connection Card and we’ll help you get started.
_____________________
GIVE BACK
Give Jesus your best! Make a one-time tithe or offering or to set up a recurring tithe or offering: Click Here To Give Online.
_____________________
Bottom Line: Worry wilts away when I let God be God.
Matthew 6:25-34 NIV
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?“ And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?“ And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
1. My value is greater than I realize.
2. Worry is connected to my attempt to be God.
3. Worry is natural for the faithless.
4. When God is God I have all that I need.
___________________
START TALKING
What are some examples of things in our culture that you don't have to worry about because someone else is making sure it is taken care of?
What are things that people in other places or time periods had to worry about but we don't have to because it is taken care of for us?
START THINKING
Read Matthew 6:25-26.
Have you ever stopped to consider where the birds get their food? Probably not! When you consider that humans are more valuable to God than birds, how does this illustration help you understand His desire to take care of you?
Why do you think Jesus asks this rhetorical question: Are you not more valuable than they are?
Do you think some people would answer this question differently? Why or why not? How would you explain to someone else the point that Jesus is trying to make here?
START SHARING
Read Matthew 6:27.
This verse asks an obvious question with an obvious answer. Yet, we often worry about the things we cannot control! To practice this, each person in the micro church take a moment to do the following:
1. Write down your top three worries that you find yourself dwelling on from time to time or even daily.
2. Beside each worry write whether there is anything you can about it or not.
Now, each person share your worries and whether you can do anything about it or not. What do you notice about the worries that you wrote down and that you heard shared?
Read Matthew 6:24.
This is the verse that comes right before Jesus tells us not to worry. Why do you think that Jesus links worry and money? Why do you think he links worry to what (or Who) is your master?
START DOING
Read Matthew 6:31-33.
What are steps that you can take this week to seek first His kingdom and His righteousness? How can or will this help you to keep your eyes focused in the right direction rather than focused on the things you would otherwise dwell on?
Take time this week to spend in more focused prayer where you can make a complete worry list of all the things that you find yourself worried about. Write beside each whether or not you can do something about it. For those things that you can do something about, make it a to-do list and pray for God's direction and guidance for each. For those that you can't do anything about, pray over each of those and give them to Jesus. Ask him to help you let those go so that He can be God and not you!
START PRAYING
Pray for each other and the step that you committed to take in the above question. Pray that we will be committed to choosing Jesus first and foremost above all else. Pray that our minds will dwell on Jesus and NOT dwell - aka worry - about anything else so that He and He alone will be God in our lives!
___________________
CONNECTION CARDS
Be sure to fill out the online Connection Card to let us know next steps, prayer requests, or other information you'd like to share, click here.
_____________________
MULTIPLICATION
Share spiritual/missional conversations you've had where you live, work, and play:
- Who did you have a conversation with that took a spiritual/missional turn this week?
- What questions did you ask to discover where God is at work in their life, even if they are not aware?
- How were you able to share your story of life change or how you have experienced Jesus?
- How can you be intentional this week with people where you live, work, and play to have spiritual/missional conversations if the opportunity arises?
- Who in your life do you think could be disciple-able or open to spiritual/missional conversations?
_____________________
WHAT'S NEXT?
- Discuss the next step for your micro church. When will we gather again, and which purpose will it fulfill (missions, fellowship/care, growth, worship, multiplication)?/giveback/giveback
- Discuss the next step for your micro church. When will we gather again, and which purpose will it fulfill (missions, fellowship/care, growth, worship, multiplication)?
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