Also, Friday night there will be prayer in the sanctuary. After coming off the tremendous weekend of Prayer, we are confident that the Spirit will continue to lead and will give good direction on how to pray most effectively.
Sunday morning we are having the drama team from the Youngsville Free Methodist Church join us. I am very excited about the production that they will share. Come and catch the heart of God as they minister. I am probably most excited that we are walking in unity with our brothers and sisters from the region. For it is there that the Lord bestows His blessing. (Ps. 133) May He show up in awesome ways as we walk under His Blessing. And as always, our heart is for that blessing to extend out to others, including the Nations. (Gen. 12:1-3)
After the service there will be lunch served. Lin Meyers is putting on a lunch to benefit his daughter, Jeneice, who will be ministering in Guatemala this summer. Jeneice will also be dancing at the service.
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You are all precious and loved,
Rick
Am I to ascertain that you consider the Church to be Israel since we minister to the Nations? And, yes, I will be plaguing this blog asking questions like this. Tell my dad I said hi. :P
ReplyDeleteCertainly not. The Church has not at all replaced Israel. However, in the context of receiving the blessings and in turn passing them on, we have joined them.
ReplyDeleteSo then Christ is not the True Vine into which we have been grafted? If He is, then He must not be True Israel (and I think that the Gospels make it very clear that He is). Also, does He not reject the Israelites who rejected Him. "Do not say that you have Israel for your father. Could not God raise up sons for Abraham from these very stones?" Just as Dan left the fold of Israel when they stayed out of the Promised Land, so Jews who reject the Messiah lose their place as the chosen people of God which has become the Church.
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