Crawley Community Church

This Sunday, we have the joy of welcoming Fabiano to our Sunday meeting. Fabiano serves as one of the elders at Família dos que Creem (Family of Those Who Believe), a vibrant church located in the influential city of Curitiba, Brazil. Their church is currently on a meaningful journey of connection and exploration with the Newfrontiers / New Ground family.

Debbie Fox, this week, takes us through something we've all experienced and battled with at times - overwhelm and tiredness. In a very practical way, Debbie shows us that help is at hand in God's word, and we don't need to be a burned-out generation.

This week Danny continues our "SOUL SICKNESS" series looking at "FEAR - when worry takes control". He focuses on Psalm 121: 1-8

Danny opens our new preaching series Soul Sickness. He looked at Anxiety and Stress - The Thief of Peace and takes us into Philippians 4 to help us see what God has to say about it.

This week Steve leads our Baptism service and what Baptism is about.

This week Joseph looks at how Psalm 51 which David wrote is a model for us on true repentance

This week Steve takes us through the beauty of REDEMPTION as part of our ART of SALVATION series

Debbie Fox continues our series on the ART OF SALVATION and looks at the beautiful truth of us being adopted as sons and daughters

Joseph takes us through the really important topic of reconciliation in our new series The Art of Salvation

This week Danny shows us that we cannot earn God's love by being good. Trying harder will never be enough. Being in relationship with God isn't about trying harder and rule keeping, its about trusting Jesus. We look at Romans 3:21-25 together as part of our series running up to Easter called "The Art of Salvation".

Steve kicks off our new series for Easter called "The Art of Salvation" and this week Steve looks at SUBSTITUTION with a sermon entitled "Follow the Lamb"

Danny this week concludes our series in Ephesians—Foundations of Faith. We'll look at Ephesians 6:1-4. Fatherless homes, rebellious kids - the crisis no one wants to talk about. 'Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honour your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.” Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. ' Ephesians 6:1-4

Ephesians 6 - Understanding ourselves and our adversary, using the Full Armour of God. Justin takes us through Ephesians 6 and the key verse is verse 10 "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armour of God."

This week Steve exhorts us to make the most of every opportunity to be effective for Jesus, he talks us through 1 Corinthians 16: 8-9 which speaks of Paul noticing the season he's in and the amazing door of opportunity standing wide open for him to minister, may we notice the doors of opportunity God has given each of us and make the most of them.

The War on Marriage: Why Biblical Roles Are Under Attack. This week Danny takes us through Ephesians 5 'Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.' Ephesians 5:22-33

This week Danny takes us into Ephesians 5. 1-3 with a call to live differently "Therefore become imitators of God [copy Him and follow His example], as well-beloved children [imitate their father]; and walk continually in love [that is, value one another—practice empathy and compassion, unselfishly seeking the best for others], just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God [slain for you, so that it became] a sweet fragrance. But sexual immorality and all [moral] impurity [indecent, offensive behavior] or greed must not even be hinted at among you, as is proper among saints [for as believers our way of life, whether in public or in private, reflects the validity of our faith]." Ephesians 5: 1-3 Amplified

This week Steve takes us back into Ephesians with our Foundations of Faith series looking at Ephesians 4:25-32 - Legalism, Lies & Anger. 'Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body. “In your anger do not sin” : Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need. and do not give the devil a foothold. Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.'

This Sunday, we welcomed John Ford as our guest preacher. John is based with his family at Kings Church Kingston, has been involved in church planting in Türkiye, and serves as part of Unreached Network, a movement within the global New Frontiers family that supports cross-culture mission to unreached people groups. He preached on the unique opportunity and unique blessing we have access to living in the current "Age of Migration" trend happening across the globe.

Danny takes us through Ephesians 4:17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

Danny closes out our series on "Adjust Your Brightness" preaching from Daniel Chapter 3

Steve take us through Daniel 2 where Daniel (and all the wise men) were under pressure of death to explain the King's dream of a statue being torn down by a rock. Daniel explains to the King that God has given him the authority to rule as God is the ultimate authority above all kings and kingdoms. “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. Daniel 2:44 Steve explains God's Kingdom will outlast and crush any other Kingdom just like the dream explained to King Nebuchadnezzar. We need to put out faith in Jesus as His kingdom will last forever and every kingdom here will pass.

This week Danny continues our new Series "Turn up Your Brightness" talking about walking in the power of God's Spirit and not being seduced by the spirit of Babylon.

Welcome to our new series for a new year - ADJUST YOUR BRIGHTNESS. Steve kicks off the new series preaching from Philippians.

Aref preached prophetically and launches our new series "Adjust Your Brightness"

This week Joseph takes us through Luke 2 with a message entitled "Timing is Everything" as we head towards Christmas

This week Justin takes us into Ephesians 4:1-6 and explores a crucial topic - "unity"

This week Joseph continues our series on Ephesians and looks at chapter 3 verses 3-6 - "The Greatest Mystery" 'For this wonderful mystery, which I briefly described, was given to me by divine revelation, so that whenever you read it you will be able to understand my revelation and insight into the secret mystery of the Messiah. There has never been a generation that has been given the detailed understanding of this glorious and divine mystery until now. He kept it a secret until this generation. God is revealing it only now to his sacred apostles and prophets by the Holy Spirit. Here's the secret: The gospel of grace has made you, non-Jewish believers (outsiders), into coheirs of his promise through your union with him. And you have now become members of his body—one with the Anointed One!' Ephesians 3:3-6 TPT

This week Debbie Cox takes us into Ephesians 3 and looks at Paul's dangerous radical prayer in Ephesians 3:14-21. We looked at the dangerous prayers of Desmond Doss shown in the movie Hacksaw Ridge who saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. "By constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released deep inside you, and the resting place of his love will become the very source and root of your life" Ephesians 3:17 TPT

This week Danny takes us into Ephesians 2, and tackles a tough but important topic - total depravity and the effects of sin. "Sin hasn't spare a single part of us. It's seeped into everything, our thoughts, our feelings and wants. Every corner of our lives has been tainted. This goes deep right to the core of who we are". Danny covers the 3 enemies 1. System and culture of the world 2. Satan our accuser actively working to intimidate & bring fear 3. The flesh - our desire to gratify our selfish human nature Danny also said most times "we don't think we need to be saved by God, we only think we need some help from God". Things actually are worse that we care to admit and we need saving.

This week Steve continues our series in Ephesians with "Open the eyes of our hearts"

Listen to Jim explain what New Ground Sunday is all about, as he shares about Marriage as a picture of Christ with his bride us the Church from Ephesians 5. Also prophetic words for Crawley Community Church are shared at the end.

This week Danny looks at Ephesians Chapter One verses 13 and 14. "And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession—to the praise of his glory."

Danny takes us into part two on the Ephesians series explaining the 3 Spiritual blessings: CHOSEN ADOPTED REDEEMED

Danny kicks off our new series on Ephesians "Foundations of Faith". The central point of Paul's letter to the church in Ephesus is what God did through the historic work of Jesus Christ, and continues to do through the person of the Holy Spirit through every believer in His church. Chapter One goes into the many Spiritual blessings we have in Christ.

Steve wraps up our series on Belonging looking at Acts 2: 42-47. The believers were: ONE- Devoted to the Apostle's teaching. TWO - Devoted to Fellowship (leaving individualism behind). THREE - Devoted to the Breaking of bread. FOUR - Devoted to Prayer. Steve makes the point its easy to grow a crowd, its more difficult to grow a new believer community where people belong to God, and each other and are serving, giving and growing together, everyone included and everyone playing their part. We can't battle and wrestle and hold onto Jesus's teaching without the Holy Spirit and without his church. We are designed to belong.

In part two of our series on Belonging, Danny takes us to Luke 12 -where Jesus was telling his disciples about the rich man's terrific crop and wanting to build bigger barns to store up the wealth for himself. The bigger barns were for his own glory and to satisfy his own greed, loving money and security more than God. Danny explains from James 4:1 that its our desires within us that most often lead us astray, we like to spend money on ourselves but Jesus made the point that, that very night the rich man's life was demanded from him, and he was a fool for getting his priorities wrong. Life is short, no-one knows when a "Black Swan" event will come and we have less time than we think to be generous with our lives.

Steve kicks off our new series called "Belonging" this week. He makes it super practical on how you can get involved with what God is doing and how you might be able to serve, give and grow.

Steve closes out the The Journey series with Baptisms of new believers and a very short sermon

Justin Fletcher talks about Jesus' second coming, which is absolutely part of the full Gospel message. He explains how we always need to be ready and prepared and live like he is coming back any minute or moment as no-one knows the time or hour of his return, but only that the bible is clear we need to be ready. Just as we would never be caught with a dead phone battery - in the parable of the 10 virgins - we can't be like the 5 virgins who ran out of oil, went out to replenish it last minute and were not ready.

Aref this week preaches and we baptised 5 new believers

Nathan Blackburn takes us through the importance of Community in our Christian Journey.

Debbie Fox takes us through part two of our series called The Journey. Debbie looks at John 4 with Jesus talking to the Samaritan woman at the well. She looks at three things in this passage: ONE: Jesus breaks down barriers of prejudice, TWO: Delighting in the encounter with Jesus THREE: God offers us eternal living water to sustain us.

Danny opens our new Series "The Journey" with Ecclesiastes 3:11 "He has set eternity in the hearts of men". Danny asks if we're feeling like something is missing? What makes our life worth living? God has made everything beautiful and appropriate in it's time - Also Ecclesiastes quoted...but often God makes us wait (and we don't like waiting for stuff). Danny proves us to think through Matthew 4:4 where Jesus talks through "Man shall not live by bread alone" - what are we using to sustain us and give us a sense of purpose outside of God?

Steve closes out our MULTIPLY series talking about this is our MOMENT to trust God for more, what that means for us as we explore 2 new services. Listen to hear his heart and what God has shown our leadership team

This week Steve baptises new believers and explains why the believers baptism matters

This week Stu continues with our Multiply series talking on "The Mess of Multiplication". "The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace'." Max Lucado

This week Joseph Odesesan takes us through part 7 of our Multiply series and focuses on MOMENTUM. Key Scripture is John 17:20-21 ‘I do not pray only for these people, my disciples. I pray also for those people who will believe in me because of my disciples' message. I pray that all of them will become united . You, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they also will be united in us. Then the world's people will believe that you sent me.

This Sunday we enjoyed having Biro unpack Luke 16, being a good manager and steward rather than being unfaithful. He challenged us to examine how we are managing our own lives, our skills and abilities, our finances, and our relationships. This passage challenge us to be faithful with how we steward God's resources.

Steve provokes us to grow in not only proclaiming the gospel but demonstrating it too continuing our 'Mind the Gap' preaching moments.

Justin Fletcher this week takes us through Part 6 of Multiply looking at THE MESSAGE.

Danny this week takes us through "Model" as part 5 of Multiply