1. Send an email to Pastor Phil with your question: phil@pinoaks.org
2. Post your question on our Facebook Group.
3. Write it down and put it in the offering box on Sunday.
4. Send us a Tweet from your Twitter Account. Make sure you follow @POCF

There you have it. It is that easy. Then make sure and show up August 8th to see if your question is answered.

Each week on the worship blog we will list the songs that we have sung so that if you want to include them in your own personal worship time. The songs include links to iTunes where you can purchase them and download them.

In addition to a list of songs, we will include a brief recap of the service and what was taught or if any special events took place. It’s something to get an idea of where we’ve been, and so that we can see how God has moved among our fellowship.

Please, send an email to worship@pinoaks.org if there is something else you would like to see on here. I’d love to hear from you!

Phil started the first week of Finish the Race, focusing on 2 Timothy 4:3-5.

Music this week was:
Our God – Chris Tomlin
When Heaven Came Down – Dutton
Madly – Steve Fee

Come To Christ from The Work Of The People on Vimeo.

This video resonates with the heart of our mission. We can be and do so much…but if we aren’t inviting people to Jesus, then all our being and doing is vanity.

One Prayer is a 4-week global event for churches around the world. We share resources by using video teaching messages and other free materials from participating churches. We team up with other churches in our community for outreach and service projects. Gifted pastors and communicators will contribute message videos that explore the theme “Unstoppable.” Churches all over the world will have the opportunity to select the teaching that best prepares their community to live out what we’re learning together.

We’ll be learning and growing as a global body of believers while we explore the teaching theme…Unstoppable. When the Church unites, it’s unstoppable… unstoppable grace, unstoppable compassion, unstoppable evangelism, unstoppable love, unstoppable generosity, unstoppable truth, unstoppable hope… It all rests in and comes from God.

One Prayer began in 2008 to explore the question: We pray to Jesus asking Him to answer our prayers – what if we became the answer to His? In John 17:20-24, He prayed that we would be one, and One Prayer is an opportunity to see what can be accomplished when the Church works together.

For two years, millions of believers around the world have united to pray, learn, and love others. God has worked in amazing ways each year, and we can’t wait to see what He does during One Prayer 2010. Beginning June 5-6, we’ll come together for four weeks as we learn more about our Creator and go out into the world to share, serve and give.

My first thought this morning was a question. How often do people spend large chunks of time questioning or talking about what they heard in church this last week? I mean really, we have the same amount of time (40 minutes), and we even have our own version of commercials (announcements). Yet, most people spend little or no time pondering, wading, or digging below the surface of what they heard in church. You may have small groups, sermon based home groups, or whatever your church has labeled them…but it just isn’t the same (in most cases). The large majority of people just don’t care what you said in church…and certainly didn’t care enough to ask someone else about what they missed, or go back and review the DVR to see if it was recorded. I actually heard today that someone took notes each week and would use that to start conversations with friends for the sake of understanding better what happened.

This sounds like things people who loved God would do. (Yes, I know some do) However the vast majority of Christians don’t ever reflect on the last sermon they heard…they certainly don’t throw sermon watching parties at their house! You can argue your case for your small group ministry, but chances are that is a separate meeting having little or nothing at all to do with the sermon from that week, and even if it’s sermon based most people aren’t really engaging the content but instead they muck their way through the meeting to get to the food or games they enjoy afterward.

I guess if anything LOST left me feeling like the Church needs to show as much interest, even more interest in the things of the Bible than they do the latest pop culture fads. While Lost will be slated to run in a never ending parade of repeats on various channels for the next 10 years…at best it’s shelf life is 15, maybe 20 years with some reunions (although it will be hard to reunite the dead. But if anyone can manage a TV resurrection I am sure it is going to be the producers of LOST). My point is that the Bible has lasted thousands of years…maybe it’s time we develop a sense of awe about it’s content. How do we elicit a hunger for it’s story and message each week that keeps people asking questions and diving below the surface for a better look at the truth? Can we sustain a long term interest in what will be a lifelong pursuit of God’s truth in the Bible? Is this just a matter of personal growth, and is church leadership unable to have any effect on such matters?

Maybe what was great about the show is that it made some of us church type leaders ask some of these kinds of questions. Maybe in doing what it did the show led other Christians to ponder deeper truths than what they had come to accept as comfortable. I am sure this is just the first of many musings on this subject, and I am 100% sure there will be others who are much better writers join the fray. I look forward to the faith challenges in the same way I looked forward to each weeks episode of LOST. Goodbye lost… it was entertaining, and maybe more?

If you need to be baptized speak with or email Pastor Phil at your earliest convenience. We are looking forward to celebrating the work God has done in the life of those being baptized. Hope you will mark your calendar and plan on being here for this one! It’ is gonna be great.