Pastor Mark Carrillo
What is Happening Here Today?
Stories . . . How couples met/Wedding/Birth stories
Every Superhero Has an Origin Story
Origin Stories — show the exact moment when a normal guy goes from being Just-Like-Us to having superhuman powers.
“And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”” (Matthew 3:16-17, ESV)
WITNESSING AND REMEMBERING
As a church family we are welcoming new people into the family.
Those who are in the family of God are remembering their rebirth story.
TESTIFYING
Those newly born again are testifying that they are following Jesus and that they have been delivered from their past and are walking in new life. (2 Cor. 5:17)
PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL
We are telling the story of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.
Jesus died for me and as me
God so identifies the believer with Jesus that what happened to Jesus has happened to us. His Story becomes our story.
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20, KJV)
”Or have you forgotten that all of us who were immersed into union with Jesus, the Anointed One, were immersed into union with his death?4 Sharing in his death by our baptism means that we were co-buried and entombed with him, so that when the Father’s glory raised Christ from the dead, we were also raised with him. We have been co-resurrected with him so that we could be empowered to walk in the freshness of new life. 5 For since we are permanently grafted into him to experience a death like his, then we are permanently grafted into him to experience a resurrection like his and the new life that it imparts.6 Could it be any clearer that our former identity is now and forever deprived of its power? For we were co- crucified with him to dismantle the stronghold of sin within us, so that we would not continue to live one moment longer submitted to sin’s power.” (Romans 6:3-6 TPT)