Washington Mennonite Church
September 28, 2014
9:30 AM
Transformative
Power of Books (and The Good Book)
We welcome all to this place for the worship of God and for Christian fellowship. Let us worship God in spirit and in truth, reaching
out to one another in Christ’s love. We
welcome our guests and visitors and hope you will join us again soon.
GATHERING AS GOD’S PEOPLE
We invite you to greet those around you and welcome visitors to
our time of worship as you enter the sanctuary.
As the prelude begins, we invite you to end your conversations
with those around you and quiet your hearts and minds in preparation for the
worship service.
Prelude
Call to Worship
Songs of Worship What gift can we bring HWB
385
Lord You sometimes speak HWB 594
Thy Word
WITNESSING GOD’S TRANSFORMATIVE POWER
IN BOOKS
Scripture Readings, Framing Our
Stories
Testimonies of Transformation
Grant Nebel, Children’s Story
Roger Farmer
Susan See
Song of Response God of the Bible STJ 37
HONORING GOD’S LIVING WORDS
The Gideon’s
Our Church Library
Honoring Transitions
Sharing and Announcements
Pastoral Prayer
Offering
Benediction
Sending Song Thy Word
Centro Cristiano Hispanic Worship Service 2:30 PM
Martha
Hernandez, pastor
Worship
Leaders:
Worship Leader:
Amanda Beachy Song
Leader: Edie Nebel
Pastoral Prayer:
Grant Nebel Prelude/Offerotry: Susan See
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Upcoming
Events:
Oct 5 – Choir/Drama Practice
Oct 12 – Choir/Drama Practice
Oct 15 – Monthly Sewing
(Luke 6:36; Genesis 1:26-28)
Oct 19 – Choir/Drama Practice
Dec 11-13 –
Dinner Theatre
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Preaching
Schedule:
Oct 5 – Amanda
World
Communion Sunday
Oct 12 – Mennonite Mission
Network Guest
Oct 19 – Grant, “The Lord’s
Supper”
Oct 26 – Amanda, “Eucharist”
Sunday School Classes: (11:00 – 11:30am)
Adult Sermon Discussion (Sanctuary): Edie Nebel, Jon Widmer
Matthew Study (back corner of the Fellowship Hall): Roger
Farmer, Barb Ramsey
Young Adults (upstairs)
Youth Grade 7-10 (upstairs): Amanda Beachy
Junior Youth Grade 4-6 (room beside kitchen in Fellowship Hall)
Primary Grade K-3 (middle room in Fellowship Hall): Becky Widmer
Vision Statement - As
followers of Jesus Christ, we are a community of faith empowered by the Holy
Spirit, seeking to love God with all our hearts, minds, souls, and strength,
and to love others as ourselves.
Ministers: All of God’s People
Pastors: Grant Nebel Amanda
Beachy
319.931.2579
(cell) 319.325.4522 (cell)
grant.edie at gmail.com abeach25 at gmail.com
Elders: Barb Ramsey 653.3785, Myron Graber 653.1674, Jon Widmer 653.4714
Church Secretary: Andrea Nussbaum 815.404.3363 Church
Office Phone: 653.6041
Church Office e-mail: wash.mennonite at juno.com
Church Website: www.washingtonmennonitechurch.blogspot.com
PREDESTINATION? GRACE ALONE? BY STEVE FINNELL
ReplyDeleteDid God foreordain those who would receive salvation and predestined all others to eternity in hell? Are men saved by, grace alone, due the the fact God imputes to, a chosen few, faith so that they might be saved? No, He does not!
The church of Christ was predestined for salvation. Individuals were not predestined, preordained or preselected to become a part of the body of Christ. All men have a choice to accept or reject Jesus as Lord and savior.
Ephesians 1:1-15......5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ.....(NASB)
God predestined all who would believe in Jesus as the Christ to have eternal life. God did not select a few men to be saved and all others to burn in hell.
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.(NASB)
In order to support to the position of those who believe that men are saved by a system of "GRACE ALONE- PREDESTINATION" by which God gives faith to a few to be saved, you would have to rewrite John 3:16.
THE REWRITE: John 3:16 "For God so loved a selected few of the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that those He imputes faith to, shall not perish, but have eternal life.(MAN-MADE TRADITION)
1 Timothy 2:3-4 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.(NASB)
God desires all men to saved. All men includes every man.
2 John 2:1-2 .....Jesus Christ the righteous; 2 and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not only for ours only, but those of the whole world.
Jesus was the atoning sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. Jesus did not shed His blood for only a selected few.
To take the position of, predestination, would mean that men are not responsible for their unforgiven sins. How could men be charged for sins that they have no opportunity to have forgiven.
IF MEN HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITY IN REJECTING JESUS OR ACCEPTING FORGIVENESS THROUGH HIM, THAT WOULD MAKE MEN MERE PUPPETS OF GOD.
PREDESTINATION-SALVATION BY GRACE ALONE, IS TRULY A MAN-MADE DOCTRINE!
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