Agape Newsletter: 1. Food Pantry THIS Sunday Morning 2. Awakening THIS Sunday Night 3. Wednesday Night ReLaunch NEXT WEEK!
(Scroll down for details on free food this week at Agape)
Hello all,
Wow!! This is an action packed week at Agape! First of all, we kick off with breakfast and food pantry this Sunday. We need your help! If some folks could come a bit early Sunday morning (say, at 8:45) and help get ready for the food pantry, that would be great! We already have an assembly line set up to make food bags. so we should be able to get them made quickly with a little help. This might be a long email, so here are the highlights: 1. Food Pantry this Sunday 2. The message this Sunday is…interesting 3. Awakening Sunday night at 6:30 4. Wednesday Night ReLaunch this next Wednesday night at 6:30.
During the message this week, we are in 1 Timothy 2:8-15 . If you click that link, or in some browsers, just hover over it, you will see that this is quite a passage! Is the Bible sexist? Was Paul a misogynist? Was this little section only applicable to the first century, or to Ephesus? WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO US? These are the questions that we will be tackling Sunday in the message. I am not going to lie to you - this is a tough passage - especially for us 21st century Americans. This passage is also one of the reasons why we have made an intentional change in our teaching of late in moving more towards going through entire Bible books during a message series. Doing it this way - we can’t skip the hard parts, or the awkward parts. We can’t pick and choose the parts of God’s Word that we want everybody to hear. Instead - we have to wrestle with all of it, and all of it is God-Breathed and inspired. I believe this will be a challenging message for both the speaker and the listeners; for both men and women; and for us as a congregation. In addition to that, I believe it will be very good and comforting for us - because God is good. His Word is good. His plans are good!
SUNDAY NIGHT - at 6:30 our friend Shawn Lombard is joining us for Awakening!!! Awakening is a refreshing time of worship and prayer that has the goal of seeing revival in our area of Birmingham, and of elevating our own worship and prayer lives. Shawn is a very powerful worship leader, and if you were at the first Awakening, you might remember how wonderful it was. This is something you are not going to want to miss! Here is a video of Shawn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgY8wl3ub0A and here is a link to the Awakening Facebook page. If you are coming….could you confirm your reservation online?
Finally - NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT (March 2nd) at 6:30pm, we are ReLaunching our Wednesday nights @Agape. Kids ReVive will be revitalized and meeting in a new place, and there will be three new small group classes that you can participate in. We will start at 6:30 with coffee and treats, and then break up into classes. Please make plans to join us for this very important Wednesday! Here are the details of the classes below:
What Is This Thing Called Love? taught by Kevin Small
“8 Weeks in 1 Corinthians 13″
Session 1: Importance of Love
Session 2: What Love Is
Session 3: Content Like Jesus
Session 4: Mannered Like Jesus
Session 5: Giving and Forgiving Like Jesus
Session 6: Handle Stress Like Jesus
Session 7: Pure Like Jesus
Session 8: Dependable Like Jesus
Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands taught by Michael Fargarson
This class is focused on teaching people how to engage in one on one ministry and will be a practical
survey of the book Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands by Paul David Tripp. Some things addressed by the class will include:
Fulfilling God’s purpose in our relationships
Properly using the Bible to help someone through life’s trials
Helping others in the midst of suffering
Identifying the real problems that must be addressed for us to see God’s will done in other’s lives
Why and how we speak the truth in love to others
Giving people what they need to change
Faith Foundations 101 taught by Chase Thompson
“Important Questions – Useful Answers”
Session 1: How can I know God is real?
Session 2: How can I know the Bible is trustworthy?
Session 3: How was the world created? What about evolution?
Session 4: Who was Jesus?
Session 5: Why did Jesus come? What is the Gospel?
Session 6: What is the church and how did it start?
Session 7: What happens when we die, and how does the world end?
Session 8: Your Questions and Answers
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