YOUTH AUCTION & LUNCHEON

YOUTH AUCTION & LUNCHEON
SUNDAY, MARCH 14th immediately following Celebration Worship
MENU: BAKED SPAGHETTI, SALAD, ROLLS & ASSORTED DESSERTS
Our SMBC students need your support at the annual Youth Auction & Luncheon. Your financial support and your prayer support will make their mission trip to the Navajo Nation this summer a success. All proceeds from the youth auction will benefit our students and adults as they minister in Joseph City, Arizona. Some of the mission projects on the Navajo reservation will include home repair, leading Vacation Bible Schools & participating in evangelism. Donations will be accepted for lunch.
Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. John 14:12 (NRSV)
I don’t know about you, but this verse has always challenged me in my faith journey. Perhaps you’re like me. When I read this statement by Jesus, I keep coming back to the same questions, “Is He really saying what it appears He is saying? Are we really going to participate in doing greater works than Jesus did while He was on earth? It just seems impossible, doesn’t it? Are we supposed to heal all kinds of sickness, cast out demons and raise people from the dead? Is Jesus really serious?”
Yes. Jesus is serious. These greater works are really possible through our belief and obedience to Jesus. What Jesus proclaims in John 14:12 is not that the disciples would do something better or more meaningful than Jesus did but he was inviting them to be involved in something “greater,” more expansive. The disciples’ work will therefore be greater because they will reveal the completed story of the Word made flesh and the fullness of God’s love.
Through His death and resurrection, Jesus was opening the door wide for the kingdom to invade earth. The kingdom was breaking into the disciple’s midst. Jesus was and is still inviting people to get involved in this unshakeable kingdom kind of life. Jesus came proclaiming that a new and different kind of kingdom was here. The kingdom He was proclaiming was foundationally different than the Roman Empire which was the dominant kingdom of the day. Rather than a kingdom built with power and oppression, this new kingdom was built upon love, grace, generosity, compassion and peace.
This was the kingdom of God. The disciples were being invited to be a part of nothing less than a movement. And so are we.
In your life, do you have a sense that you are a part of something “greater”? The invitation was not merely for the disciples; it is for you. Help our students continue the greater works!