• Interviews have started for rushees and we will present bids by the end of the week. New member Bible Study will be next week and initiation is scheduled for October 11th. We will probably leave the PSU around noon (eat lunch beforehand).
• Speaking of initiation, we will be going through all the details at chapter. If you have any suggestions or opinions, make sure to let us know!
• On October 7th, we will participate in a intramural dodge-ball tournament. Teams of 6, and 3 members will come from GAL.
• We are going to postpone the Prayer Breakfast scheduled for this Saturday. We are going to plan the rest for this semester at the next chapter.
• If you have $15 and are free on October 3rd, we will be paint-balling, probably at the barnswings. We will finalize the details at chapter.

Ok, here’s a list of things to keep in mind for next chapter:

• We will be taking a group picture. It is a formal chapter, but if you can’t find your best bow-tie, don’t worry about it…we’ll let you in.
• Dues are due! If I have to hunt you down, there is a good chance I will send a killer rabbit ahead of me.

Pray it in

Ask everyone how things are going, anything really good bible study, reading, ect.

What does pride mean to you, what comes to mind when you think about pride?

How does pride affect Christians?

1. 1. Causes big headedness
   1. a. Luke 18:9-14 The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

⁹To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: ¹⁰“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. ¹¹The Pharisee stood up and prayed about^[a] himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. ¹²I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ ¹³“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

¹⁴“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

1. i.      Are you too comfortable or confident in your righteousness?
   1. What things are you exalting before God if anything?
   2. 2. Stumbling blocks
      1. a. Judges 2:10-19

¹⁰ After that whole generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation grew up, who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel. ¹¹ Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals. ¹² They forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They provoked the LORD to anger ¹³ because they forsook him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. ¹⁴ In his anger against Israel the LORD handed them over to raiders who plundered them. He sold them to their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist. ¹⁵ Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the LORD was against them to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them. They were in great distress.  ¹⁶ Then the LORD raised up judges, ^[c] who saved them out of the hands of these raiders. ¹⁷ Yet they would not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. Unlike their fathers, they quickly turned from the way in which their fathers had walked, the way of obedience to the LORD’s commands. ¹⁸ Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for them, he was with the judge and saved them out of the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived; for the LORD had compassion on them as they groaned under those who oppressed and afflicted them. ¹⁹ But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their fathers, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

1. Do you see this in our time?
2. If so where, who, any stories?
   1. i.      Why is it so important for us to stay on top of our faith?
   2. 3. Fall out of love with God
      1. Shai Linne- My portion The Solus Christus Project
         1. i.      John Piper (computer)
         2. ii.      Whom have I in Heaven but You (nobody)/
            And earth has nothing I desire but You/
            My flesh and my heart may fail however/
            The Lord is my portion forever
            1. My hope is that no one here is struggling with this one .
            2. How do we make sure we do not fall out of love with God?
            3. Reflection and prayer

I’m a Mess

[Verse 1]

My soul’s so dirty

From playin in mud

Chasin after bunnies

Like Elmer Fud

They look so pretty

Make my heart pound

Christ sees my miss

And grabs the rebound

He sets me down

Asks me what’s wrong

I saw a girl

In a hot pink thong

Lustin after things

That’s what sinners do

Was lost for a sec

Should have called you

I didn’t hit the word

When I got up today

How ya block sin

Without Yaweh

I feel the spirit

But armor’s incomplete

Lookin like a common

I should be elite

Lord if you’re willing

you can make me clean

That’s what I learned

Luke 5:13

Less about illness

More about sin

Go check it out

Rom 5 verse10

I’m beggin you lord

Hear my pleas

I know I must carry

this thorn in me

But as I am tempted

As I wage war

Please be with me

Evenmore

[Hook]

My face turned down

Chained and bound

Fool of the town

With a half broke crown

I look like a four

Can do this no more

With knees on the floor

Please cleanse me lord

Cause…(I’m a, I’m a mess yeah I’m a, I’m a mess) repeat

[Verse2]

I’m feelin broken with tears in my eyes

I’m cryin out to adonai

My mind’s messed up, like hit with bricks

It hurts bad God, I need you quick

I’m feelin so drained, like a thousand ticks

My soul, my heart, my fam, my clique

They seem so far, God what can I do

I’m feelin so weak and feelin so blue

I know I need you, just show me you face

Or anything lord, just give me some grace

This is from heart, didn’t think about this

Just wrote what I felt, and it’s you I miss

My life’s been mine, when really its yours

Handing it over, it’s you I adore

Not just more you, I need all of you

So take me lord, though I’m not a jew

I’m still a son, and I need you bad

You take rainy days, and make them glad

I wish I had, thought this yesterday

That when I’m stress, to go to Yahweh

[Verse3]

Town’s called new J

Jerusalem hey

Futuristic place

Filled with every face

Ain’t about skins

It’s about born agains

With the heavenly

Forever they will be

What about me

And my atrocities

Do I deserve home

That will be God’s thorn

Not for law backing

But for love lacking

Times I turned away

In my brain remain

Chose games over him

Chose girls over him

This is not okay

Cannot be halfway

Spiritual that is

Was once only his

Had a great rapport

Need to love him more

And appreciate dad

Stuck in my own pad

Feet up, kicked back

Guess I lost track

Of why I am here

Though it is so clear

Like a beautiful sea

Oh now I see

God created us

Then we threw a fuss

Threw blessin away

On that fallen day

But it’s okay

Because Yaweh

Through Jesus Christ

Gave us clean life