The River Church Community

Sunday synopsis:

This sunday Brad will be concluding our series on Spiritual Warfare. This will be our final community call to engage in warfare together for the health of our church. I am excited for Brad to help us integrate the concepts that we have been learning about this summer into the nitty-gritty of our daily life choices. 

Worship Response: Sitting around the cross

As an option for you to respond to the call to enlist in the battle, we will offer a space on the red carpet for you to come and pray at the cross and take with you a bookmark that reminds you of our image of banding together to fight side by side. We are offering this option because we believe that engaging our whole bodies in worship is a helpful way to align our whole selves with what we are thinking. Sitting in our chairs can unconsciously help us to take a distant or analyzing posture to words that we are reflecting on. Getting up and moving is a way our whole bodies engage in a posture of action, a way of saying "yes" to God with our whole bodies, instead of just our minds. May you be met by God, the gracious eternal "yes" running towards you, as you come to the red carpet and receive this reminder to stay in the battle with us all. 

Changes to the room atmosphere in SJSU:

For our first sunday back at SJSU we will be making some atmosphere adjustments to the room to adopt a few things we liked from being at Westminster. We will be lowering the stage and moving the chairs forward so that Brad and myself can feel like we are more closely connected to everyone in the room. We'll also raise the lights a little more, so that we can see one another better. And the red carpet and prayer boards will have a new home in the back of the room, so that the entire area behind our congregational seating is reserved for personal response options. Our intention in putting all the individual stations  together in the quieter and darker area of our space is to foster an intimate space for you to be with Jesus however He leads you.

Sunday video clip: Gladiator

Some of Sunday's music:

Breakable - Ingrid Michaelson

You are Good - Israel Houghton

Let your glory fall - David Ruis

Those who trust - Don Shaeffer

Everlasting God - Brenton Brown

I am free - Jon Egan

Viva la Vida - Coldplay

See ya Sunday!

Krista-Dawn