By Rob Campbell, Founding Pastor, www.cypresscreekchurch.com
This week, we focus on celebrating Christ’s coming to earth through the gathering many churches call Celebration or Worship. To worship Jesus during Celebration is our goal—not a pastor, style of music, a church’s success, and more.
I genuinely wish I could give credit to the person who wrote the following about Jesus. I do not know. Yet, I leave these thoughts with you. Someone said:
Jesus Christ came from the bosom of the Father to the bosom of a woman. He put on humanity that we might put on divinity. He became the Son of Man that we might become sons and daughters of God. He was born contrary to the laws of nature, lived in poverty, was reared in obscurity, and only once crossed the boundary of the land in which He was born – and that in His childhood.
He had no wealth or influence and had neither training nor education in the world’s schools. His relatives were inconspicuous and uninfluential. In infancy, He startled a king. In boyhood, He puzzled the learned doctors. In manhood, He ruled the course of nature. He walked upon the billows and hushed the sea to sleep. He healed the multitudes without medicine and made no charge for His services. He never wrote a book, yet all the world’s libraries could not hold the books about Him. He never wrote a song yet has furnished the theme for more songs than all songwriters. He never founded a college, yet all the schools together cannot boast as many students as He has. He never practiced medicine, yet He has healed more broken hearts than all the doctors have healed broken bodies.
This Jesus Christ is the star of astronomy, the rock of geology, the lion and the lamb of zoology, the harmonizer of all discords, and the healer of all diseases. Great men have come and gone throughout history, yet He lives on. Herod could not kill Him. Satan could not seduce Him. Death could not destroy Him, and the grave could not keep Him.
Allow Jesus to be the sole focus of Celebration.