1. WHY? Cross Creek Community Church, Pastor Dave Martin – May 24, 2015

2. Psalms 139:13-17 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

3. Why Welcome New Members into Fellowship? Ephesians 4:16 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

4. Why Commission a TEAM to Guatemala? The Great Commission: Matthew 28:18-20 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

5. Why Commission a TEAM to Guatemala? The Great Commandment: Matthew 22:37-40 37 …"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

6. Why we do what we do? John 3:16-18 16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

7. Romans 6:23 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

9. The cross is a reminder of God’s love for sinners

10. John 4:35-36 35 Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.

11. Belief in the afterlife affects the way that we live in this life

12. Obedience is the key: Get where you need to be spiritually…

13. “Good & evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.” ~ CS Lewis ~ CS Lewis

14. LIVE, LOVE & ENGAGE YOUR WORLD… Be Living Victorious in View of Eternity! Be Living Victorious in View of Eternity!

15. LIVE, LOVE & ENGAGE YOUR WORLD… Be Living Victorious in View of Eternity! Be Living Victorious in View of Eternity! Be Loving in Unselfish Giving - Deeds! Be Loving in Unselfish Giving - Deeds!

16. LIVE, LOVE & ENGAGE YOUR WORLD… Be Living Victorious in View of Eternity! Be Living Victorious in View of Eternity! Be Loving in Unselfish Giving Deeds! Be Loving in Unselfish Giving Deeds! Be Reaching people for Christ! Be Reaching people for Christ!

17. Be ready to step into Eternity!