FEB 8-19] MISSION AUBURN

We were blessed to have an incredible investment with our friends from England. Here are the links to the Wednesday Night Sermons:

Martin’s Testimony: CLICK HERE

Nick’s Counter Cultural Christian: CLICK HERE

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At our New’s Year Party “Nerd Vacation”, the youth submitted predictions for this year. As we read them, they voted the prediction into 2 categories: 1) That Just Might Happen or 2) That’s Completely Redonculous. Here’s our Youth Ministry predictions for 2012. Beware!

THAT JUST MIGHT HAPPEN:
- The Charpoleon chocolate will be released out of Germany with the sweet aroma of the greatness it has.
- iPhone 6 will come out.
- It will be hot till next winter.
- Alabama’s kicker won’t start next year.
- President Obama will be voted out of office.
- Helen Keller (Tim Mathis) will finally step out of the box tonight.
- Someone will “Tebow” at homecoming.
- Greg Key will read this. (noted: already happened )
- Phillies will be the best team in baseball again.
- Tim Tebow will win the Super Bowl.
- LSU will beat Alabama again.
- Jorja Jones will fall down the stairs @ AHS.
- Philip Lutzenkirchen will win the Heisman & be a 1st round pick in the NFL draft.
- Justin Bieber will make another movie.
- Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez will break up this year.
- Justin Bieber will make another amazing album.
- It will snow!
- Greg will start laughing during one of Bro Al’s sermons.
- Auburn football will have a winning season next year.

THAT’S COMPLETELY REDONCULOUS:
- Chuck Norris will die of old age or a karate chop to the face.
- Barrett Trotter will win the Heisman trophy.
- The 49ers will win the Super Bowl.
- Larry the Cable Guy will be the new President.
- Abbey VanNostrand will rule the world. (sorry Abbey–prove us wrong )
- The city of Auburn will be devastated by a horde of man-eating bunny rabbits.
- We will have world peace.
- (The person who submitted) will get a job.
- Auburn football will have an undefeated season.
- Alabama will win their 14th National Championship.
- Jacob O’Kelley’s head will become a normal size.
- All of our Senior Class will graduate.
- Greg will grow his hair out.
- School will be illegal.

At Lakeview, our Ministry Identity is “The Sycamore Tree”.
WHY?

(click here to listen to the sermon)

In Luke’s Gospel Ch. 19 he records for us an encounter with Jesus & Zacchaeus. In this encounter we see 4 characters of noticeable importance:

1: JESUS: the Savior seeking the sinner
Jesus was going through Jericho & comes upon Zacchaeus. In v.10, once salvation had come to Zacchaeus’ house, Jesus tells His followers that was the reason why He came–”to seek & to save what was lost”. Praise God we have a Savior who came to us when we cannot go to Him! (Romans 5:8)

2: ZACCHAEUS: the sinner seeking the Savior
Now, the Bible records the onlookers calling Zacchaeus a “sinner” because he was the chief tax collector there in Jericho. According to Romans 3:23, we are all sinners in need of a Savior. Now, Zacchaeus was desiring to see Jesus. How do I know? Because he was willing to climb a tree to see Him! Think about it… Zacchaeus was a type of banker…. how many bankers you know go to work ready to climb a tree?

3: THE CROWD: the distractions keeping the sinner from encountering the Savior
Now, Jesus came that Zacchaeus might be saved, & Zacchaeus was seeking to encounter Jesus, but in between was the crowd–the distraction trying to keep Zacchaesu from encountering Jesus. Well… we have distractions keeping us from encountering Jesus every day, don’t we. BUT, in spite of the crowd, Zacchaeus thought Jesus was worth the effort to climb a tree to get beyond the crowd. We too should Jesus worth the time, energy, & effort to move beyond our distractions to encounter Him.

4: THE SYCAMORE TREE: the earthly element helping the sinner encounter the Savior
The tree was the element that helped this encounter take place. We too, as followers of Jesus, need to be like the Sycamore Tree–we need to help people who are seeking Jesus encounter the One who is seeking after them that they might be saved.

So…. as we do as a ministry & as individuals is to encourage people to be like the Sycamore Tree–what can we do with our lives to help people encounter Jesus?

WHO ARE THE YOUTH STAFF@ LAKEVIEW?

Who in the world are the people who work with the youth?
CLICK HERE to see more about the equipping staff, support staff, & interns.