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Notes from Election Series: Week 2

June 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment

SixTen:

Again, Tyler has provided the outline from this Sunday’s teaching.  Continue to meditate on these scriptures as we proceed into the third Sunday on this topic.  Keep in mind the major themes that we’ve been discussing:

1.  God’s heart is that everyone would come to the knowledge of his/her own sin, repent, and come into a loving relationship with him.

2.  Human beings are inherently (from birth) evil and corrupt.  We are happy sinners, in that we do not delight in the things of God, but in our own sinful desires and ways.  Scripture describes us as walking dead people (Ephesians 2).

3.  There is hope!  Focus on Ephesians 2:4-10.  There is a greater love described in these verses than in the initial invite God extends to everyone.  This is his electing love he bestows upon his adopted children.  We will get into this next week…

Election Teaching – Week 2

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Where Our Joy Rests

February 16, 2010 By 2 Comments

Becky Stuckey wanted to share the following link with SixTen: http://kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com/


This is Becky’s take on the site:  ”The first entry is VERY challenging. I have not been able to “shake it” since reading it. It corresponds well with what Nate had been teaching on – being willing to give up EVERYTHING for Christ.  It’s is written by a 21 year old girl, Katie, who lives in Uganda. After high school she decided to go overseas for a year and now she has lived there for 2 or 3 years and has adopted 14 girls.  Crazy! Yet Katie’s blog reminds me that not only is Christ worth giving up EVERYTHING for, we will discover incredible joy when we do.”

“Another quote I heard recently was ‘nothing of the flesh brings joy’ (David Wilkerson).  So, no matter where God leads each of us, we must remember that even though He may call us to surrender things that are good or seem good, following Christ will lead us to joy that no thing or person can ever give. My prayer for all of us in SixTen, whether we’re single or married, plan to live in suburbia or some far flung area of the world, is that we pursue Christ with all that is in us that we may attain the wonderful joy that comes from knowing Him and His astounding, breathtaking love for us.”

I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.  Ephesians 3:14-20

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