Fountain - FFWC

09/02/2026

We often talk about church entirely in terms of what our family receives.

Was the sermon inspiring?

Did the kids enjoy it?

Was the worship good?

Did we connect?

But discipleship asks a different question.

Who needed us there?

Maybe an older member needed your children’s energy in the room.

Maybe another young parent needed to see they were not the only exhausted family.

Maybe someone needed your encouragement.

Maybe your teenager needed to serve a younger child.

Maybe your gifts are part of what makes the congregation healthier.

Paul says every member of the body matters.

The hand needs the eye.

The eye needs the foot.

The body grows when each part does its work.

Church is not only something your family attends.

It is something your family contributes to

08/29/2026

08/28/2026

So excited to honor Dolly with our annual Dinner Theater in December! Tickets available in 2 weeks!

07/22/2026

One of the great temptations of modern church life is to confuse activity with discipleship.

We assume that if the church is busy, the church must be healthy. We assume that if people are attending, volunteering, and serving, then discipleship must be happening.

But that is not always true.

People can be busy in church and still remain spiritually shallow. They can be present on sunday's and absent in prayer on monday. They can serve in every ministry and still be unloving at home. They can talk about missions while having very little love for the person sitting right in front of them.

This is not an argument against church activity. Discipleship often requires structure, planning, effort, and ordinary work.

But the work must serve the formation.

Jesus did not tell us to build calendars. He told us to make disciples.

If our activity is not producing humility, love, patience, holiness, and obedience to Christ, then we may have motion without maturity.

The question is not simply, “How much are we doing?”

The question is, “What kind of people are we becoming?”-James Bell

07/14/2026

In order to prep for Thursdays home going service & meal, we will not have our regular Wednesday night meal and Bible study this week. Thank you all for ministering to our family in this difficult time. -Pastor Charlie

07/04/2026

This Sunday at 10:30am we will explore some of the most encouraging & powerful words Jesus ever spoke to us. Life changing. Life giving. You are invited to come experience the difference they can make in your life! Meet me there, I’ll save you a seat at the table. 701 E State St in Bridgeport.

06/30/2026

One of the great failures of American Christianity is that we mistook church activity for spiritual formation.

Busy churches.
Full calendars.
Serving teams.
Small groups.
Events.
Programs.
Conferences.

None of that is automatically bad.

Activity can serve formation.

But activity can also become a substitute for it.

A person can be constantly involved in church and still be spiritually underdeveloped. They can volunteer every week and still not know how to pray. They can attend every event and still be unable to handle Scripture. They can be surrounded by Christian language and still be mostly shaped by anxiety, outrage, ambition, comfort, and cultural instinct.

That is the danger.

We can keep people busy around the things of God while never teaching them to become like Christ.

The church does not need less faithfulness.

It needs to recover the difference between activity and formation.

Because busyness is not discipleship.

Formation is slower.

And far more costly.

06/10/2026

Consumer Christianity produces people who are highly critical but minimally sacrificial.

They evaluate sermons.
Analyze worship.
Compare churches.
Debate styles.

But rarely ask:
Who am I discipling?
Who am I serving?
Whose burdens am I carrying?
How am I strengthening the body?

The kingdom of God advances through servants, not religious critics. -James Bell