Harvest Christian Fellowship Blog

Join us tonight, Thursday, October 1 at 7:oo p.m. in the Fellowship Hall for Musicians’ Network.

Not only will we have a time of worship and study in the Word, we’re offering FREE instructional classes in the following areas, beginning guitar, intermediate guitar, guitar shredding by Hanz Ives, bass, drums, vocals, song writing, and for the first time, audio engineering, taught by our very own sound master, Mike Smith.

Bring a heart prepared to worship and bring a friend.

(Please note: No children under 12 can be accommodated during instruction time.)

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Join us for our next Courtyard Fellowship this Saturday, September 26, featuring the film “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”.

This film, with host Ben Stein, was the #1 documentary of 2008 .

Many of the world’s top scientists, educators and researchers are recognizing new scientific evidence of intelligent design in our universe. But, they are being EXPELLED by Big Science. Fired. Denied tenure. Denied their right to free speech.

After the film, our own Come Reason apologist, Lenny Esposito will have a Q&A session.

This is a great film that your entire family should see. It all starts at 7:00 p.m. in the Courtyard. Come early for dinner at Cafe 3:20!

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They Were a Loving Church

A Commitment to Christ-centered Community and Biblical Stewardship

“And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers . . . . Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need.”

—Acts 2:42, 44–45

Welcome again to the Harvest Community Blog. A month ago we learned the first three cornerstones to the HCF Community. We’re to be a worshipping, evangelizing, and learning church.

The fourth and final cornerstone to the Harvest Community is to be a loving church. This week we’ll learn how the early church expressed their love for God and one another through their Christ-centered community. Next week, we’ll learn how the early church loved God and one another through biblical stewardship.

Love for one another was one of the distinguishing traits of the early church. The original language used to describe this kind of love, here and other places in Scripture, is the Greek word koinonia. We have many translations of this word into the English language, the most common being the word fellowship. It describes a kind of mutual love that is based on joint effort and purpose in Jesus Christ.

One of the primary ways the first Christians were a loving church was through Christ-centered community. Acts 2:42 tells us that “all who believed were together.” But they didn’t get together simply to socialize. Luke lets us know that the first Christians fostered community that was grounded on God’s Word, the eating of meals and celebrating the Lord’s Supper together, and praying with and for one another (see Acts 2:42).

For the first Christians, there was no place for coming to church and not returning until next Sunday. They formed a Christ-centered community of personal, interactive relationships that daily pointed one another to Jesus.

Like the early church in Acts, Harvest Christian Fellowship is committed to Christ-centered community through small groups, Men’s and Women’s Bible Fellowships, our Courtyard Fellowships, and other community-oriented activities.

Visit the Harvest Community Blog next week and learn how the first Christians were a loving church by how they cared for one another through biblical stewardship. By studying the characteristics of the early church, we can learn how to turn the world upside down just as the first Christians did some two thousand years ago.

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Sign-ups are underway to participate in this years Children’s Ministry Christmas Program. Visit Topher’s Place (Children’s Ministry building) for more information and to get registered. Children ages 3-16 (as of June 30, 2009) are welcome to be involved. It’s always a wonderful show for family and friends, so don’t miss your opportunity to be a part of this year’s Christmas Program. For information on the Children’s Ministry visit their site here.

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Defending your faith can be a challenging proposition in today’s society. So many facts and figures are talked about, they become difficult to answer without a seminary degree.

This month, at Come Reason, you’ll learn some basic tools to help you rationally and effectively witness to friends and family, offering some questions for the critics, and showing you how to avoid those “smokescreen questions” that hold no merit.

Come Reason meets tonight, September 14, in the Resource Center at 7:00 pm. Childcare is provided.

For more information on Come Reason check out the ministries website here.

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The Fall session of Mentoring Matters will begin the week of September 28 through the week of November 16. Sign-ups will be available on the Patio, this Sunday, September 13. For more information on this ministry please check their website here.

If you attended the Mentoring Matters Ministry summer session and would like to share your experience, please tell us about it in the comment section of this post.