February 21st Weekend
CRASH COURSE
Crash Course is an interactive 4-week group setting that will help you grow in your faith and connect at Crossroads. A new session starts today, March 7, at both campuses. Learn more and sign up at ecrossroads.org/connect.
LEAD PASTOR SEARCH
Visit ecrossroads.org for updates on the lead pastor search process. Join us in prayer as we seek the Lord for His leading in this important decision!
THE CROSSROADS APP
The Crossroads App is the easiest way to connect with our church. Get quick access to sermons, prayer, giving, push notifications, event signups, and much more!
ONLINE GIVING
Online giving has been a game changer for Crossroads’ ability to impact our community regardless of snow closures, vacations, or (now) viral outbreaks. You can join us in our BOLD mission by setting up regular giving today:
- visit ecrossroads.org/give,
- text give2ccc to 77977 for a secure giving link,
- access giving through the Crossroads app
- or you can simply mail your gift to the church office.
Dragons: Division
The Dragon of Division has a
The Devil
- Diablos == Adversary
- Diabellein == to split
Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
— I Peter 5:8
This great dragon — the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world — was thrown down to the earth with all his angels.
— Revelations 12:9
The Accuser – Categor == to categorize, to divide into groups, to label us
Then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens, “It has come at last — salvation and power and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down to earth — the one who accuses them before our God day and night.
— Revelations 12:10
Our differences do not have to divide us
Satan
The Dragon of Division has a
Listen! The Lord’s arm is not too weak to save you, nor is his ear too deaf to hear you call. It’s your sins that have cut you off from God. Because of your sins, he has turned away and will not listen anymore.
— Isaiah 59:1-2
Unaddressed sin will always lead to division.
The Dragon of Division can be
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the bottomless pit, and a heavy chain in his hand. He seized the dragon—that old serpent, who is the devil, Satan—and bound him in chains … The angel threw him into the bottomless pit …
— Revelations 20:1-3
For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us. — Ephesians 2:14
There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
— Galatians 3:28
For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, in all, and living through all.
— Ephesians 4:4-6
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Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace.
— Ephesians 4:3
Make every effort == Being Eager / Being Diligent / Doing your best / Doing all you can / Being careful / Straining every nerve
Grab the Glue