Celebrate To observe (a day) or commemorate (an event) with ceremonies or festivities. To make known publicly, proclaim. To praise widely or to present to widespread and favorable public notice, as through newspapers or novels. To perform with appropriate rites and ceremonies.

Celebrate What we appreciate we celebrate. What we celebrate gravitates.

Celebrate The Race Race (Global) Team (Generational) Person (Local) Part (Personal) -Parts must do well for person to do well. -Person must do well for team to do well. -Team must do well for race to go well.

Celebrate The Race Paul relates our journey to a race. Philippians 3: Corinthians 9:24-27

Philippians 3:12-14 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.

Philippians 3:12-14 But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

Celebrate The Parts We CELEBRATE the parts of the body. Celebrate the personal journey. Saved by Jesus. Made like Jesus. Celebrate the parts. 1 Corinthians 12:12-26

The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free —and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

1 Corinthians 12:12-26 Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say,

1 Corinthians 12:12-26 “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

1 Corinthians 12:12-26 But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

1 Corinthians 12:12-26 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor.

1 Corinthians 12:12-26 And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,

1 Corinthians 12:12-26 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

Celebrate The Person We CELEBRATE the local body. The Roots Community Church exists to: Glorify God Mark 12:29-31 Reach ALL Lost Luke 19:10 Luke 5:31-32

Mark 12:29-31 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.

Luke 5:31-32 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Celebrate The Person We CELEBRATE the local body. The Roots Community Church exists to: Disciple ALL Found Matthew 28:18-21 Equip ALL Disciples Ephesians 4:11-13 Send ALL Equipped Matthew 9:35-38

Matthew 28:18-21 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 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,

Matthew 28:18-21 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Ephesians 4:11-13 It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up

Ephesians 4:11-13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Matthew 9:35-38 Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.

Matthew 9:35-38 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.

Matthew 9:35-38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Celebrate The Team Set up the next generation for CELEBRATION. Proverbs 20:7 Proverbs 14:26 Celebrate The Race We CELEBRATE those that are for Him. Luke 9:49-50

Proverbs 20:7 The righteous man leads a blameless life; blessed are his children after him.

Proverbs 14:26 He who fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for his children it will be a refuge.

Luke 9:49-50 “Master,” said John, “we saw a man driving out demons in your name and we tried to stop him, because he is not one of us." "Do not stop him,” Jesus said, “for whoever is not against you is for you.”