On the Lord’s Day:
- 9:15 am — Sunday school classes for all ages: Classes for graded age groups meet to learn from the Scriptures. To see Sunday school classes, ages and meeting locations, click on the red “Ministries” button under the category “Pages” (to the right).
- 10:30 am — Corporate Worship of the Living Lord: the highlight of our week! Before you walk in the church building, prepare your heart and mind to hear, receive and ACT on the very truths of God.
During the Week:
- Tuesday: Our Ten-thirty Tuesdays Bible will resume this week at 10:30 am on Tuesday in the Fireside Room. We’re beginning a study in the book of Numbers in our chronological study of the Old Testament.
- Wednesday: Awana Clubs meet at 6:30 pm with “March Madness (Kids’ Choice) Night!”
- Thursday: The Thursday Night Toolkit Bible study will resume this week. This survey study of the New Testament meets at 6:30 pm on Thursday in the Fireside Room.
- Saturday (3/13), 4:00 pm: Elim League Bowling
Upcoming and Ongoing:
- The greatest need of the church today is more of the presence and power of the Spirit of God. O that Christians were roused to greater earnestness and importunity in prayer! These words from D. L. Moody remind us of the importance and urgency of meeting in prayer for the needs of the church and our world. Join us at our monthly Prayer Meeting on Saturday, March 20th, 9:00 am.
- We’re in need of set-up, cooking, and clean-up volunteers for the Elim Easter breakfast on Sunday, April 4th. If you are interested, please contact the church office.
- Registration is still open for the Grace & Truth Conference for Women on April 30 & May 1st. Ladies, you’ll want to set aside this Friday & Saturday for biblical teaching on cultivating a fruitful life for the glory of God. Contact the church office for more details.
- If you are planning on graduating from high school or college this spring, please contact the church office.
- If you are interested in playing softball on Elim’s church league softball team this year, please contact the church office. We’re looking for players of all skill levels, but you must be 16 years or older, and you must be a regular attender at Elim.
From the Pastor’s Recent Reading:
The church at large is built on good doctrine. When Peter confessed that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God, Jesus said He would build His (yet-future) church on that foundation: on the confessed truth of His deity (Matthew 16:13-18). As He predicted, so it happened. The inaugural sermon of the Christian church was the preaching of Christ, leading to a mass confession of Christ as Lord (Acts 2).
As it is with the universal church, so it is with any local church. A church of Christ must be build on the foundation of the preached truth of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 3:10-11). Paul says categorically that no other foundation can be laid than Jesus Christ.
What does it mean to lay a foundation of Jesus Christ? Clearly Paul does not mean that he is pulling Jesus down from the Father’s right hand, and constructing an edifice on Him. Obviously what Paul must mean (in context) is Jesus Christ as preached and believed. It is the true doctrine of Jesus Christ that is laid as a foundation by preaching; it is the confession of Christ as preached by the apostles that is the foundation of the church, of any Christian church. Without that, there can be no church of Christ.
—from Dan Phillips’ online study in Colossians
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Janet
Filed under: This Week @ Elim