Whiteboard: Kick Off Sunday

Our Fall Program Year kicks off this Sunday!

After a nice summer hiatus it is so great to see all of our church programs gearing back up again. The DWM Circle Groups are meeting, the Choir is rehearsing, our Sunday School Classes are coming back (and we're even starting up a new one; Rev. Kevin Adams will begin leading a Revelation Bible Study on August 20!), and our Fellowship Groups are getting geared up.

And what better way to celebrate Kick Off Sunday than to turn to Mark 8:27-38 where Jesus asks his disciples, "Who do you say that I am?"

As we celebrate the start of another program year, as we bless and dedicate our programs to the work of God, we'll turn our attention to that question this Sunday as we seek to answer it as faithfully as the Apostle Peter did when he said, "You are the Messiah."

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Mark 8:27-38 Peter’s Declaration about Jesus

Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am?’ And they answered him, ‘John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.’ He asked them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’ Peter answered him, ‘You are the Messiah.’ And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.

Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, ‘Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.’

He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.’