Frontier Church

Fall Heart Reset, Acts Preview

A special Sunday as we begin to cast our vision into our fall, we invite our community into a "Fall Heart Re-set" over the next couple weeks... Before we all get bombarded and committed to the responsibilities, pace, distractions, and chaos of our culture (both good & bad), we want to take a Sunday to re-set and re-align our hearts, and let the ways of Jesus draw us back to vision, peace, joy, and faithfulness that can handle anything- loss, suffering, disappointment, exile, inflation, and political chaos! The Books of Acts if all about "power". The key is suffering. Perhaps we have gotten revival all wrong? What is the fruit of true revival? How do we live + build for true revival and renewal? How do we equip Jesus followers for suffering? We'll look at some examples in Acts and church history of where we are aiming as a people that live for the renewal of all things, and the message will land on the 4 Marks of Community that Builds for Revival, looking at four features of the first "small community groups", and how we might work to recover them:1) A Different Kind of Bible Study2) Utterly Honest Confession3) Everyone Elevated4) Always Moving in Two Directions

Open a Window in Your Exile, Daniel 6

Daniel and Exile shows the tension of 2 things that arise in exile:1) "To Give in" (Assimilate)2) "To Get away" (Separate)3) Creative Minority (The 3rd option that Daniel lives out)There's always a window to a third option! It's the idea of a creative minority. This is a phrase coined by the late historian, Arnold Toynbee, and his work on the rise and fall of empires and then made popular by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. The basic idea is that a group of people on the fringe of culture – so, a minority. An ethnic minority, religious minority or whatever – who rather than default to separatism ("let's get away") or syncretism ("let's give in") are creative and together, as a community, they work for the good for the healing and the renewal of the wider culture that is in decline.

Re-story Your Exile, Daniel 5

(*We apologize that the first few minutes have been edited out due to technical issues)Christian continues our series from Daniel and the "Living in Babylon" series as we look at the bizarre encounter with the "handwriting on the wall" from Daniel 5.... It provides a challenge to allow our exile (Exile= our second choice world) to prove what's in us, to expose what we trust in, and to examine the warning signs that God desperately desires us to receive. We'll encounter a God that is magnificently patient, powerful, and worth letting Him "re-story" our exile stories...DANIEL INSPIRES US WITH 3 TESTS TO BREAK FREE FROM PRIDE + EXILE:1. THE "WEIGHT TEST" (Is there substance to my ways?)2. THE "SECURITY TEST" (Am I trusting in false security?)3. THE "WARNING TEST" (Are there warnings in my life/Where's the handwriting on the wall?)Questions to ponder:- In what ways has God warned you that it's time to take back that lifestyle "bent" more seriously?- How is God leading you into something new?- What are the warning signs in your life?- Are you learning from them or are they tormenting you?