Bulletin 10.18.26
“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household” Ephesians 2:19
A Reflection Before The Service
A Reflection Before The Service
What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything of the sort. Christians come together, not because they form a natural collocation, but because they have been saved by Jesus Christ and owe him a common allegiance. In the light of this common allegiance, in light of the fact that they have all been loved by Jesus himself, they commit themselves to doing what he says— and he commands them to love one another. In this light, they are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus’s sake.
— D.A. Carson, Love in Hard Places (2002, p. 61)
The Call To Worship
The Call To Worship
St. Paul’s Letter to Ephesus Ch 2, vv. 17ff
AND HE CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHO WERE FAR AWAY, AND PEACE TO THOSE WHO WERE NEAR; for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
(Prayer)
A Reflection Before The Service
What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything of the sort. Christians come together, not because they form a natural collocation, but because they have been saved by Jesus Christ and owe him a common allegiance. In the light of this common allegiance, in light of the fact that they have all been loved by Jesus himself, they commit themselves to doing what he says— and he commands them to love one another. In this light, they are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus’s sake.
— D.A. Carson, Love in Hard Places (2002, p. 61)
The Call To Worship
St. Paul’s Letter to Ephesus Ch 2, vv. 17ff
AND HE CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHO WERE FAR AWAY, AND PEACE TO THOSE WHO WERE NEAR; for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
(Prayer)
18/10/26