End of the year teaching series

CF Students is in the middle of our "end of the year/Christmas" series.

The title is pretty self explanatory.

Throughout the series we have been encouraging students to "lose" themselves and focus on serving others for the sake of the Gospel. Our emphasis is that we don't serve to make ourselves feel good or even because it's fun to do. We serve because Jesus served us. Piper said it well when he said, "The glory of Christ is most clearly seen when we are willing to risk or sacrifice to experience more of Him."

We've encouraged students to:

1. Lose yourself (You actually aren't the center of the universe)
2. Lose your stuff (evaluating need vs luxury-what are you willing to sacrifice?)
3. Lose your time (serving others emphasis)
4. Lose your limitations (loving the nations emphasis)
5. Christmas message: Emmanuel, God with us.

Each week students are given a means to practically apply what they have learned. For instance, the "lose your stuff" weekend, we put bins on the stage and asked students to give clothes/things they value to the under-resourced.

We've also pushed students in a way we never have before...to give financially to save the lives of 50 babies.

More to come...