2008 Year-End Banquet

All Quest222 parents and their teens ages 12-17 are invited to our year-end banquet on Friday, June 13, 7-9 PM. This will be a wonderful evening together to honor our graduating seniors and to review God’s faithfulness to all of us in Quest222 this past year. Please sign up today at the registration center if you have not already signed up!

2008 Regional Youth Camp

On July 3, 4, and 5 we will be joining our sister churches in NC, Virgina, and West Virginia at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va for a 3-day conference. 

REGISTER ONLINE NOW!

TION: Proclamation

Well we continued our “TION” series this month with a message on Proclamation - the declaration of the Gospel. We talked about Paul’s Motive, Message, and Mission of the Gospel that he lays out for us in Romans 10:1-15. We would love to hear your comments and stories, so post ‘em for us! 

Cosmic Bowling Pics…

Here’s a few pics fron our last Cosmic Bowling event - enjoy..    

Get ready now for The Rebelution Conference!

The plan is for all of us to go and just meet there, so go ahead and register now!

JustificaTION

Well, we had a huge turnout for the last Quest222 main meeting. Thanks for all who were there and for your responsivness to the message! For the message I had the joy of talking about “justification” as part of our ongoing TION series. In that message I quoted Charles Spurgeon and some were asking about that quote, so here it is again…enjoy!

Charles Spurgeon – “I know what the devil will say to you. He will say to you, “You are a sinner!” Tell him you know you are, but that for all that you are justified. He will tell you of the greatness of your sin. Tell him of the greatness of Christ’s righteousness. He will tell you of all your mishaps and your backslidings, of your offences and your wanderings. Tell him, and tell your own conscience, that you know all that, but that Jesus Christ came to save sinners, and that, although your sin be great, Christ is quite able to put it all away. Some of you, it seems to me, do not trust in Christ as sinners. You get a mingle-mangle kind of faith. You trust in Christ as though you thought Christ could do something for you, and you could do the rest. I tell you that while you look to yourselves, you do not know what faith means. You must be convinced that there is nothing good in yourselves; you must know that you are sinners, and that in your hearts you are as big and as (dark) sinners as the very worst and vilest, and you must come to Jesus, and leave your fancied righteousnesses, and your pretended goodnesses behind you, and you must take him for everything, and trust in him.”

Now that’s strong stuff - but it brings home the point. Justification is a one-time act of God in which He responds to our repentance and faith by declaring us to be “not guilty” - and as if that weren’t enough - he then sees us as as righteous (or holy) because of our new identification with Jesus. Why is that a big deal?Well it means that we are accepted before God in the same degree and manner as Jesus himself and given the same privileges as Jesus. We have a new identity in Jesus. And check this out - Since Jesus doesn’t change (never becomes more or less holy, or more of less accepted by the Father) our status doesn’t change either. Justification changes how God sees us - it’s no longer based on what we do but on what He has done. That is awesome!

Got any comments? let’s hear them!

Monsieur Mickey

Mr. Connolly’s impression of a French pastor.

Foto-Friday Pics needed!

OK - there have been requests for more Foto-Fridays, but I need your pics! Send them to me and I’ll put the best ones online each Friday. You can just e-mail me the pics or a link.

Quest222 outreach event…

Thanks to everyone who participated in our outreach event on Saturday 12/15. We had 10 teams of parents and teens works together to distribute over 10,000 door hangers in the immediate neighborhoods. Please continue to pray that God will use our efforts to bring friends and neighbors to himself through our Christmas Eve meeting.Thanks again for everyone’s hard work and heart for the mission.Also, if you have any stories to share, let’s hear them!

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Foto-Friday

A few pics from the last Quest222 Retreat at Lake Junaluska…