Alive in Christ: Family Matters Part 4

ORDER OF WORSHIP:

We Worship God Who Calls Us To Trust Him As Our Father

Welcome
Song of Praise “Death Was Arrested”
Call to Worship Psalm 103:11-13
Song of Praise  “Tis So Sweet”
Confession of Faith Isaiah 64:8
Song of Praise  “Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me”
Prayer of Adoration
Greet One Another
Ministry Spotlight
Prayer of Intercession
Giving of God’s Tithe and Our Offerings
Song of Preparation  “How Deep The Father’s Love”
Scripture Reading Colossians 3:20-21
Ephesians 6:1-4
Sermon “Alive In Christ: Craig Swartz
Family Matters Part 4
Prayer of Commitment
Song of Response  “Trust And Obey”
Benediction

SERMON NOTES:

Robert Frost:

“Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

1. THE  THE GOSPEL GIVES 

Colossians 3:21

Ephesians 6:4

Article: How Christianity Invented Children:

“We have forgotten just how deep a culture revolution Christianity rocked. In fact we forget about it precisely because of how deep it was. Take for instance the idea of children. Today it is simply taken for granted that the innocence and vulnerability of children makes them have a particular value and entitles them to particular care. In fact this view of children is an historical oddity. In ancient Greece and Rome children were considered non-persons. The Christian invention of children as treasured human beings was really an outgrowth of it stupendous and revolutionary idea of the radical equality and infinite value of every single human being. After all God who made heaven and earth chose to reveal himself not as an emperor but as a slave punished on a cross. That means that no one can claim higher dignity than anyone else based on any earthly status.”

Martin Luther King Jr.:

“A just law is a human law that comports with a divine moral law and therefore it must be obeyed but an unjust law is a human law that is in conflict with a law of God himself and therefore must be disobeyed.”

John Calvin:

“Let them be fondly cherished by their father.”

2. THE  THE GOSPEL GIVES 

Colossians 3:20

Ephesians 6:1-3

C S Lewis:

“Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.”

3. THE  THE GOSPEL GIVES 

Robert Orben:

“Who can ever forget Winston Churchill’s immortal words: ‘We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills.’

It sounds exactly like our family vacation.”