Reach Community Church

Some food for thought 📖 💭 following up on Sunday’s message, July 5! If you missed it, watch it on YouTube to catch up!

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❓Questions to dive deeper into your relationship with Christ:

1. What does our culture say freedom is, and how does that differ from the freedom Paul describes in 2 Corinthians 3?
2. Paul was imprisoned, beaten, and opposed throughout Acts 19–23, yet he was spiritually free. What does his life teach us about the difference between external freedom and internal freedom? Have you ever experienced peace or joy in Christ despite difficult circumstances?
3. Paul says the Law reveals our sin, but only Jesus removes our condemnation. Why is it so easy to slip into trying to earn God’s approval instead of resting in Christ’s finished work?
4. According to verse 18, we become like what we behold. What has been capturing your at lately, and how is it shaping your heart? What practical change could you make this week to spend more time beholding Christ through His Word and prayer?
5. The sermon ended with three questions: What still has you in chains? What are you becoming? What are you beholding? Which of those three questions challenged you the most, and what is one specific step you can take this week to walk in the freedom Christ has already given you?

Visit with us next Sunday!
⛪️ 9am and 10.45am
121 Town Hall Drive | Leland
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This week our nation celebrates 250 years of freedom. For 250 years Americans have celebrated the blessings of liberty—the freedom to worship, speak, assemble, and pursue opportunity. Those are incredible gifts, and we should thank God for them. But this morning I want to ask a different question. What is real freedom? Most people think freedom means doing whatever you want, whenever you want, however you want. But is that really freedom? Because even in one of the freest nations on earth, people are still imprisoned every day by guilt, shame, addiction, fear, anxiety, bitterness, and sin. You can live in a free country and still not be free. ~ Pastor Heath

Hear more on Sunday
⛪️ 9am and 10.45am
121 Town Hall Drive | Leland
📺 9amHealth https://youtube.com/

🗓️ Church Night of Prayer: Please join us here, tomorrow night from 7-8 pm, as we gather to pray for our church and community - both locally and abroad. We do this the first Monday of every month and would love for you to join us.

📸 S Mauroux

Have you ever noticed how quickly people can change? One day you’re the hero. The next day you’re the villain. You get the promotion... everyone congratulates you. You make one mistake... everyone questions you. Social media can make you famous on Monday and cancel you by Friday. If your identity is built on the approval of people, you’ll spend your
life riding an emotional roller coaster. Acts 14 shows us a man who experienced both extremes in less than 24 hours. One crowd tried to worship Paul as a god. That same crowd later picked up stones to kill him.
So what kept Paul going? His life wasn’t built on the opinions of people. It was built on the mission of Jesus. And that’s the question this passage asks every one of us: Whose approval are you living for? ~ Pastor Heath

Hear more on Sunday
⛪️ 9am and 10.45am
121 Town Hall Drive | Leland
📺 9amHealth https://youtube.com/

📢 Sunday Social Fellowship: Please join us in the back after 1st service for some great snacks and coffee. We do this once a month for the 1st and 2nd service attendees to have time to catch up and fellowship.

📢 Reachkids & Youth:
Move Up Sunday is today for ReachKids and ReachYOUth!

If your child is at the age or stage in life to move up a class, today is the day tfor that! ReachKids is organized into three groups:
- Infant Room: For kids from birth to 3 years old
- Preschool Room: For kids ages 3 through 1st grade
- Elementary Room: For kids in grades 1-5
- ReachYOUth is for students in grades 6-12.

This also means that on the first Wednesday in July, we will be welcoming new 6th graders into Youth,
and we are very excited to meet you!

📸 T. Meier