Morgantown Community Church

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This morning, we’re taking a break from our current series to focus on how our church ministers to families. Pastor Josh Scott is joined by our Director of Children’s Ministry, Adra Skaggs as we discuss how to create an “orange” environment. To have a loving “Red” home life, and a “Yellow” church that shares the light of Christ, creating a balanced “Orange” experience to grow in.

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In this fifth installment of our “Deligion” series, Josh invites us to think about what the God Jesus reveals is like. This God doesn’t condemn, but instead extends much needed grace to us, and in the process, our dignity as well. This is a huge contrast to Deligion, which seeks to dehumanize and condemn.

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This week, we continue our Deligion series by looking at an encounter Jesus has with a Samaritan woman by a well. As we look at this story, Pastor Josh Scott encourages us to embrace the living water that brings hope and refreshment that Jesus offers.

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For week 3 of our “Deligion” series, Pastor Josh Scott brings a message of freedom, peace and liberation, as opposed to the religion that many of us have experienced of oppression, conflict and manipulation. So often, religion encourages people to obey laws, fall in line and become like everyone else. But true religion allows the spirit to move like the wind; going where it wills and fills up our lives. It is outside of our control or manipulation. We must ask ourselves, as we search for where God is at work: where is the wind blowing?

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Who hasn’t heard someone say “Religion is so stuffy” or “Religion is just a bunch of rules” before? So in this week of our “Deligion” series, Pastor Josh Scott explains how religion that is spirit filled is so much more than the constraints we try to keep it in. Jesus wants to show us that there is a new life that He offers to us.

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It’s Easter Sunday at MCC and we’re beginning a new series called “Deligion” where we discuss how God never intended for religion to be something that was ever hurtful. The church in the general public is viewed as something that is deceptive, hateful and even greedy at times. Jesus dies and rises again to bring a new creation in us, as individuals and the church. He desires to recreate us in the middle of where we are: to be people of hope, love and second chances.

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In this Good Friday teaching, pastor Josh Scott challenges us to embrace both parts of the cross: the cross for us, and the cross at work in us.

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This week is Palm Sunday and Pastor Josh Scott is about to wind down our “Atonement” series. As Jesus enters into Jerusalem, he rides a young donkey, as fulfillment of a prophesy in Zechariah. However, Jesus is also making a statement. By choosing a lowly, poor animal, he indicates that his kingdom is not built on war, power or with oppression, but with peace, sacrifice and humility.

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We’re nearing the end of our “Atonement” series this week with a reminder of the fact that Jesus’ identity is one of  The Messiah, A messiah who confronts evil and sin at the very core of what it is, reminding us that our life is one that begins with death. Not only does Jesus have a cross, but as His followers, we do as well. We must follow Jesus as he travels the road to give up his life, so that we may also die to ourselves.

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We only have a few more weeks left in our “Atonement” series, and this week we continue to clarify what Jesus actually did for our sin on the cross. Pastor Josh Scott explains the difference between knowing God’s grace, and actually experiencing it, and then living from that peace. We tend to feel entitled when we lose that perspective. Thankfully, the grace offered to us through Jesus’ death is unlimited and generous. Our poverty in sin is what allows us to receive this grace that we don’t deserve, but need more than anything.

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We continue our “atonement” series this week with a message about our own humanity. Pastor Josh Scott shares with us how because Jesus shares our humanity, he can understand our struggles with temptation. The writer of Hebrews actually says that Jesus empathizes and shares the suffering with us. He not only sees us, or is aware of us, but is a fellow sufferer in our weakness.

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The idea of the cross is something that most americans are somewhat familiar with. Most people in our area claim some sort of church, or at least a general affiliation to christianity. Because of this type of “comfort” we often lose the magnitude of what happened on the cross. Pastor Josh Scott reminds us in the second week of our “Atonement” series that what God creates is, according to Genesis “Tov Moad” or very good.” Because of our sin, things don’t happen in the way that it was intended to happen, and everything in creation is broken. The cross, however, brings this broken world back together, through the work of Christ.

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The idea of atonement is how peace is made between God and people. It is the bridge; the cost of a separated relationship. Pastor Josh Scott shows us that before Christ, we were dependent on a High Priest making sacrifices for the sins of us all. But God sent his son to be the sacrifice required for the reconciliation that we all need.

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We being this 2012 season of Lent on Ash Wednesday with confession and repentance together as a body of believers. Pastor Josh Scott reminds us that, while Ash Wednesday can feel discouraging and even hopeless, this time is meant for preparation of our hearts. We can have hope that at the end of this season, resurrection is coming.

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While “Lent” is something that MCC takes part in every year, not everyone grew up participating in that part of the church calendar. So this week, Pastor Josh Scott helps bring some perspective to the reason that we choose to fast from things for 40 days, and why we choose to focus on the person that God wants to create in us at the end of the 40 days. Like Jesus, we are tempted to trade God’s path for one that we can control and understand. But, like Jesus, we can commit to God’s plan for us, the narrow path, the one that leads not to destruction, but to life.

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To wrap up our “CLUTCH” series this week, Pastor Josh Scott leads us to action on being the person he explained about last week. While vision and intention are important, they are useless without the action to support them. We must commit to taking the next step towards becoming the Christ-like person we were created to be, through prayer, discipleship, personal bible study and other spiritual disciplines.

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“Clutch” means to grasp or sieze something. We know those people, who, in the moment of decision, seem to rise up to the challenge. They make the game winning shot at the last minute. They complete the pass in the endzone in overtime. They seem to do just the right thing, at just the right time. In this series, Pastor Josh Scott show us that being a “CLUTCH” person isn’t about luck, or timing. Its about preparation, intention and dedication to becoming the kind of person that makes the right decisions. Following Christ’s example of determination, we must “fix our eyes on Jesus” everyday, and be that kind of person everyday, so that in the moment, we are ready to react accordingly.

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We’re going out with a bang this week, as we wrap up our “Isn’t She Beautiful” series! In a clear and straightforward reminder of who God has called us to be as the church, Pastor Josh Scott asks us to consider who we should be reaching out to. Christ came to save all, no matter what “label” any one of us may wear. God is so much bigger than the pretty picture that we like to paint of Him. The Bride can be found at her best when She is loving people in the way that Her groom loves them; compassionately and unconditionally.

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We’re in the third week of our “Isn’t She Beautiful” series with a message of legalism. Pastor Josh Scott explains how we’re neither called to mindless obedience, or blind devotion, but to a calling of holiness. Perfection isn’t something that we can attain, but the journey towards that goal is something we must commit to every day. The tension exists in the journey for this unattainable perfection and the grace given for own sinful nature.

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If you’ve ever been in any kind of relationship, whether a marriage, romantic, or just a friendship, you know that there are “complications” from spending time with another person. In the second week of our “Isn’t She Beautiful” series, Pastor Josh Scott shows us how the Bride must work together in community to look her best. We can function so much better if we communicate with each other, supplying each others’ needs and making sure that no one is left out.

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As we enter into Week One of our new series “Isn’t She Beautiful,” Pastor Josh Scott covers what scripture says about the church, reminding us of some things that it is not, but defining the Bride of Christ as a people called into community by God. We discover that when the church is at her best, she is beautiful.

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Happy New Year! In our first worship experience of 2012, Pastor Josh Scott encourages us to come to grips with the changes that we want to make, and even need to make in the new year. We’re reminded that God calls us to a total change; a metamorphosis. His affect on our lives should change everything for us, and encourages us to take the necessary steps toward Christ-likeness.

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Its Christmas Eve and Pastor Josh Scott is wraping up our Christmastime series with the teaching of the Christmas story. We’re exploring what it means for us to be present with Christ on this Christmas, as He has become present to us.

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This week in our Advent series “Christmastime,” Pastor Josh Scott speaks about the specific kinds of love of the Christian message. The relentless, unconditional and sacrificial love of God, reminding us that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. This perfect love is the reason that Christ would come to our world for us.

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When was the last time that you were so excited, so joyful, that you couldn’t say a word? For the third week of advent, Pastor Josh Scott shows us that the angels that announced the birth of Christ, they say that this Good News is for ALL people. So often, we can think that this message is only for people who are like us, for people who think like we do. God’s desire for us is the kind of joy that is so great that it will leave us speechless.