1. Potomac believers fellowship
Worshipping God…Making Disciples…Impacting the World

2. Who we are – god worshippers
Romans 12:1-2

3. Who we are – god worshippers
Romans 12:1-2
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

4. Who we are – god worshippers
Contrast of sacrifices
Old Testament – something had to die
Jesus put and end to that with His death
Now we are living sacrifices

5. Who we are – god worshippers
Obligation
Never brings life
Never quenches our thirst
Never feeds our soul

6. Who we are – god worshippers
True worship
Brings life
Allows us to drink deeply
Fills our souls

7. Who we are – god worshippers
What makes the difference between obligation and true worship?
Being in love with the Father
Treasuring Him and desiring Him
Results from being filled with the Holy Spirit

8. Who we are – god worshippers
Romans 12:1-2
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

9. Who we are – god worshippers
Not conformed - transformed

10. Who we are – god worshippers
Premise 1 - Most TV ads entice me to want things that I don’t need
Premise 2 - Watching more TV causes me to see more such TV ads.
Conclusion: Therefore the less TV I watch the less I will be enticed to want things I don’t need.”

11. Who we are – god worshippers
Test and approve
Look at it
Assess it
Treasure it

12. Who we are – god worshippers
Ephesians 1:18
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,