Just a reminder that Women's Fellowship is tonight (January 13) at 6:30pm.
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Monday, January 13, 2014
REMINDER: Women's Fellowship Tonight @ 6:30PM (Jan 13)
MEMORY WORK: This Week's Catechism Questions
First Catechism Questions:
FCQ 34. How did Adam and Eve change when they sinned? Instead of being holy and happy, they became sinful and miserable.
FCQ 35. Did Adam act for himself alone in the covenant of life? No – he represented the whole human race.
Shorter Catechism Questions:
SCQ 24. How does Christ execute the office of a prophet? Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.
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Sunday, January 12, 2014
Spiritual Gifts and Serving Others - Pastor Tito Lyro - 1 Corinthians 12:1-11
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Spiritual Gifts and the Spirit Who Gives Them - Pastor Tito Lyro - 1 Corinthians 12:1-11
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Friday, January 10, 2014
Spiritual Gifts and Serving Others - 1 Cor. 12:1-11
Introduction
Ken Sande, in his book The Peacemaker, says that the history of Christianity has re-written a very well known verse in the Bible. Mt. 18:20 says, "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them." Ken Sande says that the Church has understood this verse to say, "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there will be conflicts." That seems to be an accurate description of the history of the Christian Church. One area of disagreement or conflict has been in the understanding of spiritual gifts, particularly the understanding of chapters 12 and 14 in this epistle.
Review from Last Week: The evidence of the Spirit's presence in your life is not what you can do or the gifts that you may have received. The evidence of the Spirit's presence in your life is your allegiance to Christ.
I. The Holy Is Most Glorified When Christ Is Most Exalted, 3.
A. Spirit of God is the One who empowers a person to confess that Christ is Lord.
B. Paul points to Christ as the evidence of the Spirit's presence in their lives, and in doing that he helps us understand what the function of the Holy Spirit is – the main function of the Holy Spirit is to exalt Jesus Christ in the church.
C. We often mean something else when we say that we want a Spirit-filled church, or a Spirit-filled life, or marriage, etc.
1. We usually mean that we want something extra exciting, some bang in our lives, some extraordinary manifestation.
2. But at the end of the day, a Spirit-filled life is a life in which Christ is exalted, loved and obeyed.
II. The Triune God Is the Source of All Gifts and He Gives Them out in Order for Us to Serve Each Other in unity, 4-7.
A. God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the giver of all good gifts to his Church.
B. The Triune God is intimately involved with his Church.
C. Notice that Paul uses three different words to describe the gifts that God gives to the church: gifts, ministries, and activities.
D. Paul emphasizes that, though the gifts may vary and not everybody has all the gifts, they all come from the same God.
E. Since the Giver is united in his diversity, we must be united in our diversity of gifts.
III. Every Member of the Body of Christ Is Gifted with a Gift That Is Good for the Body, 8-11.
A. Once again, listen to Paul's emphasis of the source of the gifts: the Spirit!
B. Each person in the church has been gifted by the Spirit in order to serve others, 7, 11.
C. Each gift that you have is a good gift to be used to build up those who are around you.
D. This list is not an exhaustive list of gifts – as matter of fact, no such list exists.
E. A final word about gifts: Jesus, who is Lord, is equipping his Church with everything it needs to grow into the fullness of the Body of Christ.
Conclusion
The controversy over the miraculous gifts of the Spirit will likely rage on till Christ comes back. We need to be part of the discussion and we need to know how these gifts relate to us. But more than anything else, we must be united in our diversity, using our diverse gifts to serve one another as Christ reigns over our hearts.
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
PRAYER: Deacons and Session Meet Tonight (Jan 8)
Please be in prayer for our Deacons and Session as they meet to discuss our budget tonight (January 8).
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REMINDER: No Wednesday Evening Services Tonight (Jan 8)
Just a reminder that there will not be any of our regularly scheduled Wednesday Evening Services Tonight (January 8)
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Monday, January 6, 2014
Spiritual Gifts and the Spirit Who Gives Them - Pastor Tito Lyro - 1 Corinthians 12:1-11
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SAVE THE DATE: Women's Fellowship Monday, January 13
Ladies, please save the evening of Monday, January 13 @ 6:30pm for Women's Fellowship.
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MEMORY WORK: This Week's Catechism Questions
First Catechism Questions:
FCQ 32. What was the sin of our first parents? Eating the forbidden fruit.
FCQ 33. Who tempted them to this sin? Satan tempted Eve first, and then he used her to tempt Adam.
Shorter Catechism Questions:
SCQ 23. What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer? Christ, as our Redeemer, executes the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation.
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Friday, January 3, 2014
Spiritual Gifts and the Spirit Who Gives Them - 1 Cor. 12:1-11
Introduction
Last October witnessed a new outburst of a long-running controversy. Pastor John MacArthur hosted a conference called Strange Fire in which the speakers dealt with what they considered the dangers of a continualist understanding of the miraculous gifts of the Spirit, particularly speaking in tongues and extra-biblical prophesies. Pastor Mark Driscoll showed up at the conference to attempt to distribute his book on the dangers of a cessationist understanding of the miraculous gifts of the Spirit. The battle raged on as any modern battle in the battleground of Twitter and blog posts.
This controversy is not new. It has been raging since the second century of our era. The main difference between the controversy now and how it has historically been framed is that historically the continualist party was a fringe party, and now it is considered part of the main stream.
This controversy is largely based on what Paul teaches in chapters 12 and 14 of this epistle. Chapters 11-14 all touch upon the church's congregational life. He started by talking about men and women gathering together deliberately as men and women to pray and prophesy. So we took the opportunity to consider what the Bible says about Christian masculinity and femininity. Then Paul moves on to the corporate life of worship and singles out the Lord's Supper as we considered last week. Now he moves on to other elements of the worship service.
I. The Evidence of a Person's Standing before God Is not in the Gifts, but in the Giver, 1-3.
A. Paul is back to addressing questions the Corinthian Christians had sent to him – "Now concerning…" 1.
B. The problem that was plaguing the Corinthian worship was an over emphasis on the miraculous gift of speaking in tongues during the corporate, congregational worship – the whole context through chapter 14.
C. The way that they were conducting themselves in their corporate worship was a reversion to their pre-conversation life, 2.
D. The evidence of the presence of the Holy Spirit in your life is not how loud you are, or how mindless you are, but on your attitude toward Christ, 3.
E. Paul points to Christ as the evidence of the Spirit's presence in their lives, and in doing that he helps us understand what the function of the Holy Spirit is – the main function of the Holy Spirit is to exalt Jesus Christ in the church.
II. The Triune God Is the Source of All Gifts and He Gives Them out in Order for Us to Serve Each Other in unity, 4-7.
A. God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the giver of all good gifts to his Church.
B. The Triune God is intimately involved with his Church.
C. Notice that Paul uses three different words to describe the gifts that God gives to the church: gifts, ministries, and activities.
D. Paul emphasizes that, though the gifts may vary and not everybody has all the gifts, they all come from the same God.
E. Since the Giver is united in his diversity, we must be united in our diversity of gifts.
III. Every Member of the Body of Christ Is Gifted with a Gift That Is Good for the Body, 8-11.
A. Once again, listen to Paul's emphasis of the source of the gifts: the Spirit!
B. Each person in the church has been gifted by the Spirit in order to serve others, 7, 11.
C. Each gift that you have is a good gift to be used to build up those who are around you.
D. This list is not an exhaustive list of gifts – as matter of fact, no such list exists.
E. A final word about gifts: Jesus, who is Lord, is equipping his Church with everything it needs to grow into the fullness of the Body of Christ.
Conclusion
The controversy over the miraculous gifts of the Spirit will likely rage on till Christ comes back. We need to be part of the discussion and we need to know how these gifts relate to us. But more than anything else, we must be united in our diversity, using our diverse gifts to serve one another as Christ reigns over our hearts.
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