—What we find beautiful we most behold.
What we behold will captivate us.
What is most captivating is what our hearts will love most.
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What we find beautiful we most behold.
What we behold will captivate us.
What is most captivating is what our hearts will love most.
What we behold will captivate us.
What is most captivating is what our hearts will love most.
A captivated heart comes from revelation, not information
David was a man after God’s heart because he was a man who knew and encountered the presence of God through revelation of God.
In the gospels, it was hearing, seeing and experiencing Jesus (as He brought the Kingdom of the Heavens to earth) that left people amazed and captivated. Paul’s radical new life with Jesus was initiated in a multi-sensory revelation of Jesus on the road to Damascus. All through John’s Revelation we see a similar pattern of God’s people and his heavenly host utterly captivated by the revelation of the throne, the lamb, the return of Jesus for his bride, and the new heavens and earth. It is a multi-sensory revelation of the throne, the lamb, and the beauty, majesty, immensity, and nearness of God that leads to a captivated heart.
Why We Struggle To Be Captivated By Jesus: Framing The Problem
“Our hearts crave beauty, but the fallen human heart does not naturally find Jesus beautiful. Jesus’ beauty flows from his divinity—Jesus is not beautiful because He is an impressive human. He is beautiful because He is God in human form… our sinful hearts are often captivated with other false images of beauty… Jesus is the most beautiful person, but his beauty is not beautiful by the standards of this age.”
~ Discipleship Begins With Beholding, Samuel Whitefield
We behold what captivates us.
What captivates us is most beautiful to us.
What is most beautiful is what we love.
Love is driven by beauty.
What is most beautiful to you?
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We become like that which has most captivated us.
(We become what we look at)
Our vision to join Jesus in the invasion of God's Kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven begins with being a captivated people again.
It is a multi-sensory experience with Jesus and his Kingdom that will lead to wonder and a captivated people. We believe that the good news of Jesus is the availability of his presence and the Kingdom of the Heavens now. We believe that Jesus is here and that the Kingdom is here as well.
2024 Year End CAPTIVATED Offering
Every year in December we all bring an offering above and beyond our normal tithe so that we can go beyond where we normally go. This year we are kicking off our year of consecration with a sacrificial offering in faith and joy.
Our year-end offerings are used to fund the vision that God has called us to with our building and ministries.