Antioch Dallas

This week in Lifegroups!

Lots of our Lifegroups are on Spring Break this week so wherever your break takes you we hope it’s filled with as much joy as these kids carry!

We’re breaking our silence here on social media to bring an important update regarding this Sunday -

Unfortunately, our church staff and Overseer Team have been hit by COVID this week. With that in mind, our Sunday service will be online only, 10 am on our YouTube Channel.

We thank you for your prayers for healing during this time and pray that you continue to experience encounter and breakthrough during these 21 days.

TODAY we kick off 21 days of prayer and fasting as a church.

Yesterday, Pastor Zach reminded us of the rich history of God providing for His people through prayer. Over the next three weeks, we’re ready and expectant to see the provisional breakthrough of God in our lives as we pray and fast together.

We are fasting:
•Media
•Malicious talk
•Pointing of the finger

For more details, see the participation guide link in the bio to start participating with us today.

We will be silent on social media for the next 21 days. Can’t wait to see all the God does in and through us during this time.

Starting on Monday, we will enter into a time of prayer and fasting as a church. We are contending together to see the restoration of God in our lives, city, nation, and nations of the earth, with Isaiah 58:6-12 as our foundational passage.

From wherever you might be in the world right now, we invite you to join us as we seek the Lord. You can find our prayer and fasting participation guide in the link in the bio.

God has mighty things ahead and we can’t wait to watch them unfold.

CONTEMPLATIVE || SLOW DOWN SPIRITUALITY ••

One of our cultural values at Antioch Dallas is to be contemplative - to practice a slow down spirituality which allows us to form deep roots in our faith through timeless practices like prayer, fasting, giving, serving, sabbath, and confession.

I’m Scripture, over and over again, God chose to speak to His people in the quiet, stillness of the wilderness. Oftentimes, our busy, hectic days drown out the voice of God. He gently invites us into stillness where in the quiet, slowed down spaces, He speaks.

Last Sunday, Pastor Zach encouraged us to make space in our lives to get still so that we can get clear on what God is speaking to us this year. 2022 is the perfect opportunity to start practicing this slow down spirituality by reorganizing your life to make room for you to encounter Jesus on deeper levels and gain clarity on what He is speaking to you this year.

Join us this Sunday as we continue to learn ways we can prepare for our upcoming 21 days of prayer and fasting that we will kick off in the 16th. We can’t wait to see what God does in and through us during this special time.

Want to learn more about getting still to get clear? Check out the message on our YouTube channel .

Happy Selah Sunday Church!

We will not have a formal worship service this morning. Instead, we will take the morning to “selah” and encounter Jesus with our families together at home.

What does selah mean?

Selah is a term used throughout the Psalms. The Strong’s Concordance lists the definition of the term as suspension (of music), i.e. pause. Many believe it was placed strategically in portions of the Psalms to challenge listeners to pause and reflect on what has been. The life of Jesus was marked by times of drawing away from the crowds and “pausing” to go into lonely places to commune with the Father. It is in these wilderness places that the noise that fills our lives fades away long enough for us to begin to discern the voice of the Lord in fresh ways.

We have created a Selah Sunday Guide to help you pull away from the crowd, to selah, to go into the wilderness, and to encounter the Lord.

Access the guide at https://antiochdallas.org/selah

We wish you a wonderful Selah Sunday. We can’t wait to see you again on January 2nd for our first family service of 2022! Until then, we wish you and your family a Happy New Year! May the Lord bless you richly as we ring in 2022! 🎉❤️🎊

MERRY CHRISTMAS church! ❤️🎄🔔

Our hearts are full today as we reflect on the majesty of Jesus - His miraculous birth brought light into a dark world, redeeming us back to Him. Today marks the day that “The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.” (John 1:9)

We wish you and your family the warmest and most wonderful Christmas together. Can’t wait to see you again when we gather together in 2022!!

We hope you join us tomorrow for our Christmas Eve service at 5pm.

We will come and behold the majesty of Christ with a time of singing Christmas carols, hearing the word of God, and having a family candle lighting experience.🎄❤️ 🕯

We are a church on mission.

After our gathering on Sunday, we rallied to be for our city by packing care bags for the homeless. It was a simple thing to do - pack water, food, write handwritten notes of encouragement, and provide a reference to one of our local partners, - but it provided opportunities for everyone to be on mission in our city to build the Kingdom of God. As we see homeless in our city, we will hand out these bags as an act of love and promotion of peace, honoring Jesus, the ultimate Prince of Peace born and sacrificed for us.

Did you miss out? Do you want to have some bags on hand? 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏾‍♂️ We have extras you can pick up on January 2nd when we gather again!

What are some other ways you are spreading the peace of Christ this Christmas? Let’s us know below 👇

This past Sunday, we celebrated the love of God with not just the love advent candle, but with baptisms and communion!! We celebrated with 3 of our family members as they made a public declaration of their faith in Jesus. They left their old self and sin behind in the water as they were risen to new life in Christ. It was a powerful reminder of the beauty of the gospel and the full life God has for us as adopted sons and daughters.

What better way to celebrate God’s redeeming love for us? And of course, with donuts too 😋

Join us next Sunday as we continue to celebrate this season with JOY - a “For The City” celebration!!!

DECEMBER PREVIEW - Here’s what’s happening in the life of our church in December.

Looking forward to celebrating with you all this advent season.

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