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Join Us To Worship GodSunday Morning Service @ 10:30am Speaker: Pastor Brett McCoy This Sunday we will be concluding our series in the gospel of John. Over the last several weeks we have been looking at John chapters 13-16. These chapters are the narrative of the last evening that Jesus spends with his disciples. During this conversation, Jesus teaches many things like: leadership means being a sevant, that we are to love one another as Chirst has loved us, Jesus has prepared a place for us and one day He will return to bring us to this place, the reason that the Holy Spirit will be sent and what the spirit will do, He teaches about the importance of growing in character and being disciplined in our faith, and he prepares His disciples for the hardships that they will face once He has gone. In chapter 17 we will be looking at Jesus's prayer that ends this section of narrative. All of chapter 17 is Jesus praying to the Father, for His disciples and for those who are still yet to follow him. It's an important and powerful prayer that shares Jesus's dedication and relationship with the Father and his great love for those that put their trust in Him. The question for us as followers of Jesus is: How are we to live out our faith to continually glorify Jesus? Looking forward to seeing you sunday morning.
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TEFC Summer Focus
This summer we will be highlighting our statement of faith. As we move forward in this time of transition as a church family it is important to be praying for the Lord to lead and direct us, it is also important to remember who we are as a church. One of the ways we do that is by being reminded of our theological convictions and the greater body that we are apart of. The Evangelical Free Church of Canada is an association of autonomous churches united in a common commitment to God’s evangel –the gospel of Jesus Christ, who died and rose again to give us eternal life. To God’s glory, the gospel is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes. Our essential theological convictions are vitally connected to this gospel STATEMENT 4: GOD’S GOSPEL IS MADE KNOWN SUPREMELY IN THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST. We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus—Israel’s promised Messiah—was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate. Our fourth conviction in our statement of faith points us directly at the person of Jesus. At His life, His Lordship, His nature, His origin in coming to live among us and His purpose as part of the trinity. Jesus’s death and resurrection are the focal point of our faith, that he would die in our place for our sins and then be resurrected conquering death so that we may also conquer death and that sin would no longer have a hold on us. This is an incredible miracle and reality for all of those who put their faith in Jesus as Lord. But there is even more to Jesus than the easter narrative. Jesus lived as fully man and fully God, he lived the human experience and understands the struggle and fragility of human existence. He felt temptation, he ate and drank, he breathed air, he had friends and a family. Jesus laughed and experienced sorrow, he walked on the same dirt roads as anyone else, he even practiced a trade (carpentry). It’s easy for us to sometimes forget that Jesus lived here, not in Taber obviously but here on this planet physically, and that He experienced some of the same things that every other person around him experienced. That is one of the things that makes Jesus so remarkable is that as God, He would humble himself to live amongst His creation. In doing so our Savior can sympathize with the difficulty of our human experience, our brokenness, our weariness and the burdens that we carry. He was here for a time, and He witnessed it in others and experienced some of those things himself. This perfect God would come and understand us. Jesus is many things, our Savior, Redeemer, Lord, Healer, King. As important as all those titles that Jesus has, it can be helpful for us to remember that He was also a man here on earth. A man who lived a perfect life, a life born with a purpose to redeem the world, but a man who lived here and who understood his creation, who lived amongst them. Jesus is relational we see this best in two ways his continuous connection with the Father and the Fathers will and in his choosing and living life with the disciples. Jesus didn’t ask these men to follow him for his benefit, He didn’t need them. Instead, He was modelling a new way of living for them (and us) one that was full of truth and freedom for the burden of the old covenant. Jesus demonstrated that he wanted to be in relationship with his followers, we see that with his disciples but it’s true for us as well. That’s what makes the reality that Jesus walked this earth so amazing is that he, being a relational God, gets us because He created us, but he also gets the world, because he lived in it. When we spend time with Jesus and when we talk to him, he truly understands us and what we are going through, he can relate to the things we are going through. So why is this important? Because the life that Jesus lived out, the one that is recorded in the gospel accounts is meant to be an example to us for how we are to live out our faith in this world. If we want to be people who truly know the gospel, we need to be people who truly know Jesus, we can only do that fully by being in relationship with him. Jesus wants to be in relationship with us, he died to make that relationship possible, he was resurrected so that that relationship could be eternal. As important as those two things are we still need to choose each day to be in relationship with Jesus and by doing this we can fully understand the purpose that Jesus has for us and the power the gospel is in our lives.
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New Sermon series Starting August 7thLetter to the Ephesians Over the rest of the summer and into the early fall we will be going through the letter that the Apostle Paul wrote to the Church in Ephesus. The letter of Ephesians is full of rich theological truths and instructions for the church. One of the Church's most important doctrines on salvation comes from this letter (by Grace through Faith). It is this statement that will be a focal point as we go through this letter together and it will bring us to this question we are saved by grace through faith but for what purpose? We look forward to having you join us for these services. Scripture Journals for Ephesians will also be available for Sunday August 7th. |
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