Posted by pastor Curt Drexler
“Come Away With Me!”
Sounds like an ad for a fabulous vacation getaway, doesn’t it? God extends this invitation to us every day. But sometimes the noise in our lives keeps us from hearing Him, in fact at times we might even feel dead in the faith that is supposed to make us alive.
God has said through His word that if we “Draw near to Him; He will draw near to us.” He wants us to be in daily relationship with Him! And if we can somehow connect with Him in the way He designed us, our hearts can be transformed forever. We begin to have an eternal impact on the world around us because our perspective and motivation begins to change from “self-centeredness” to being “God and others” centered.
What would it look like to actually come away with Him?
When we’re with Him, the distractions of world begin to fade and we begin to hear His voice more clearly. The very thing we all long for, love and acceptance, happens only when we are in His presence. Our faith begins to come alive!
This month Christ The Rock is inviting everyone to turn a corner in their faith. For 40 days, we’re going on a journey together. A Challenge In The Word is much cheaper than a vacation, and the reward is priceless: a heart that wakes up, comes alive and draws closer to Him than ever before.
The Challenge is to read and journal about a key passage in the Word from February 21st to Easter.
Ready to get started?
It’s our prayer that your journey into how you experience God will go deeper than simply a weekend experience. We want to explore together what it might be like to change our lifestyle, day by day so that we can actually hear what Christ is already saying to us. So to get started, we invite every teen and adult to purchase a specially-designed companion journal. You can pick up a hard-copy binder that will not only capture your journey day by day, it will also be a place to keep your sermon notes for each theme over this next year. These journals will be available for $5 in the lobby starting next weekend.
Children will be encouraged to join the Challenge for one week right before Easter. Special Bible study pages will be available for them for free.
We’ve designed this Challenge to be easy, and we don’t want anything to get in your way. So if you would prefer to get your 40-Day Challenge In The Word delivered to your email at no cost, simply SIGN UP HERE and we’ll email you all the Challenge materials you’ll need for free.
(You may have to create an online login account for our system).








