Emmanuel Covenant Church

In this final week of our 10 Healthy Missional Marker Series Pastor Eric recaps the past 10 weeks, summarizes important points about the markers, and reminds us of the words from Isaiah 28:23-29, that there are seasons for plowing, seasons for planting, seasons for harvesting, and seasons for turning that harvest in to something new. These markers were a season of plowing in preparation to plant what God has for us next. We also had the privilege of hearing from members of our congregation about markers or parts of markers that really stood out to them, and the ways that God used these past several weeks to speak to them.

Healthy Missional Marker #10 is Fruitful Organizational Structures. This week,we take a look at the need for and the value of fruitful organization structures... people working together in their specific roles that together combine to create something more beautiful!

We had a special guest preacher come and share with us about this text and marker. Tim Keener is a missionary/church planter who is seeking and discerning what God has for him, his family, and the Covenant Church in Montreal, QC. Tim asked the question that even Micah's name requires us to ask... "Who is like the Lord?" An important question for reflection as we engage in this marker.

This is week eight of our 10 Healthy Missional Marker series. We looked at Romans 12:1-8 and what it means to give our bodies as a living sacrifice... what it means to give ourselves, our gifts, our talents, our finances, our influence, the very things we value to God. We were reminded of the truth we read in 1 John 4:19 "We love because he first loved us." We give because God first gave to us.

In our seventh week of our 10 Healthy Missional Marker series, we looked at what David means, as he writes in Psalm 138, "I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart". It is a reminder that we must bring our whole selves in to worship... in to relationship with God... not just the parts that are beautiful, but the ugly, painful, sinful parts of us as well.

Now six weeks in to our Healthy Missional Marker series, this week, through a section of the book of Acts we looked at Compelling Christian Community. We talked about what it looks like when the Holy Spirit is really at work in a christian community, the kind of outpour we can and will see.

In this, the fifth week of our 10 Healthy Missional Marker series, our guest Preacher Bill Gardner helps us explore what it looks like to have a Global Perspective, and also, to engage in that. Thanks Bill!

This fourth week of our 10 Healthy Missional Marker series brings us to the importance of leadership. And we read in this passage in Hebrews the high standard that leaders are held to, as well as the high standard that followers are held to as well. Creating a culture of Godly leadership requires both Godly leaders and Godly followers.

This third week of the 10 Healthy Missional Marker Series brings us to Intentional Evangelism. We look at what the text means for sharing the Gospel, and how we are not really loving our neighbor if we aren't looking for ways to introduce them to Jesus Christ.