Matthew's Table

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Hi All!

I'm asking for your involvement with One tomorrow night. How? I'm asking each of you to personally call and invite 5 people to One.

In case you have been hiding under a rock... One is taking place again tomorrow at 7pm in Downtown Dalton (@ the Wink).

We are very excited about this month's One and looking forward to hanging out with some free coffee, listening to Simple Fool lead us in Worship, and hearing from Ben Bailey! Please Join Us!

Call your friends and give them a personal invite tonight or tomorrow! Let's get the word out old school style!

You really must run over to jeff-green.blogspot.com and check out the OUR PURPOSE and OUR PILLARS SERIES.

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Please journey over to jeff-green.blogspot.com and read the Values section added.

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A slice of what One looks like! Feel free to forward, email, send, direct etc all friends etc to this promo. Place it on Myspace whatever...



ONE
MAY 15 2007
7pm
The Wink in Downtown Dalton

I'm helping some of our very good friends from Rock Bridge promote an idea God has laid on their hearts for a Young Adult get away in May. Please read below and contact the appropriate people there for more info.

Sign up SOON!

Join RBCC’s Young Adult Small Group for an Adult Christian Retreat!

• We’re staying at Cloudland Canyon State Park in a comfortable lodge!
• Couples welcome but accommodations are twin-sized bunk beds only.
• You must bring your own linens (twin size).
• Car pooling is encouraged! There is a $3/car entrance fee.
• You must be at the park by 9 pm on Friday, May 18^th.
• The first 40 people to turn in their money will be accepted so make arrangements soon!
• Make checks payable to Kelly Campbell.
• If you would rather camp than stay in the lodge, call for your option

Dates: May 18^th-20^th

Place: Cloudland Canyon State Park (approx. 50 miles from Dalton)

Cost: $30/ includes food!

Activities: Hiking, fishing, caving, and sports during the day; worship, speakers, and discussions at night!

Theme: Walking in Love

Contacts: Kelly Campbell @ 706-483-1089,

Nicole Kelley @ 205-266-4891, or

Jay Ashlock @ 706-313-8579.

Almighty God, as I cross the threshold of this day I commit myself, soul, body, affairs, friends, to Thy care. Watch over, keep, guide, direct, sanctify, bless me. Incline my heart to thy ways. Mould me wholly into the image of Jesus, as a potter forms clay. May my lips be a well-tuned harp to sound Thy praise. Let those around see me living by Thy Spirit, trampling the world underfoot, unconformed to lying vanities, transformed by a renewed mind, clad in the entire armour of God, shining as a never-dimmed light, showing holiness in all my doings. Let no evil this day soil my thoughts, words, hands. May I travel miry paths with a life pure from spot or stain. In needful transactions let my affection be in heaven, and my love soar upwards in flames of fire, my gaze fixed on unseen things, my eyes open to the emptiness, fragility, mockery of earth and its vanities. May I view all things in the mirror of eternity, waiting for the coming of my Lord, listening for the last trumpet call, hastening unto the new heaven and earth. Order this day all my communications according to Thy wisdom, and to the gain of mutual good. Forbid that I should not be profited or made profitable. May I speak each word as if my last word, and walk each step as my final one.If my life should end today, let this be my best day.

The feedback we have received from ONE has been great! It seems like God really moved in the hearts of people. We can only hope that the movement was NOT temporary and that it causes significant forward movement in our ability to follow Christ and love others.

I spoke about just that Loving God and Loving Others.

We explored what it means to walk through the various phases or corridors/hallways of the call to follow:

1. Living Life
2. Knowing God
3. Relating and Loving God
4. Relating and Loving Others

The basic point was that God hasn't called us to remain or sit in any one "zone" if you will rather he calls us to move through all the zones and in this way we experience and understand first hand the heart of God.

If you wanna hear more just ask.

Compassionate Lord, Thy mercies have brought me to the dawn of another day. Vain will be its gift unless I grow in grace, increase in knowledge, ripen for spiritual harvest. Let me this day know Thee as Thou art, love Thee supremely, serve Thee wholly, admire Thee fully. Through grace let my will respond to Thee, knowing that power to obey is not in me, but that Thy free love alone enables me to serve Thee. Here then is my empty heart, overflow it with Thy choicest gifts; here is my blind understanding, chase away its mists of ignorance.

O ever watchful Shepherd, lead, guide, tend me this day; without Thy restraining rod I err and stray. Hedge up my path lest I wander into unwholesome pleasure, and drink its poisonous streams; direct my feet that I be not entangled in Satan's secret snares, nor fall into his hidden traps. Defend me from assailing foes, from evil circumstances, from myself. My adversaries are part and parcel of my nature; they cling to me as my very skin; I cannot escape their contact. In my rising up and sitting down they barnacle me; they entice with constant baits; my enemy is within the citadel. Come with almighty power and cast him out, pierce him to death, and abolish in me every particle of carnal life this day.