Gathering Recap - 07/30/2023 - Galatians 6:11-18

Call to worship:

8 You have kept count of my tossings;
    put my tears in your bottle.
    Are they not in your book?
9 Then my enemies will turn back
    in the day when I call.
    This I know, that God is for me.
10 In God, whose word I praise,
    in the Lord, whose word I praise

Psalm 56:8-10

Gathering Video

Questions for reflection:

Where have you seen “zoochosis” in your life?

In what ways has the “new creation” broken into the present age of life?

How does the finished work of Jesus lead us toward rest and freedom?

Corporate Prayer:

Our Father in heaven,

Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever, amen.

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Notes//Quotes//Slides:

Galatians 6:11-18

Bear Video (attached)

Monkey video (attached)

“He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.”

Harry Emerson Fosdick

All that matters is that, through Christ crucified, we are made a “new creation” (v 15). The gospel changes my future, giving me a place in Christ’s perfected re-creation. And the gospel changes my present, giving me a whole new self-image and whole new way of relating to everyone - Tim Keller

“Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.” - Dallas Willard

1. Grace! 'Tis a charming sound,

Harmonious to the ear;

Heaven with the echo shall resound,

And all the earth shall hear.

2. Grace first contrived the way

To save rebellious man,

And all the steps that grace display

Which drew the wondrous plan.

3. Grace first inscribed my name

In God's eternal book;

'Twas grace that gave me to the Lamb,

Who all my sorrows took.

4. Grace led my wandering feet

To tread the heavenly road;

And new supplies each hour I meet

While pressing on to God.

5. Grace taught my soul to pray

And made mine eyes o'erflow;

'Twas grace that kept me to this day

And will not let me go.

6. Grace all the work shall crown

Through everlasting days;

It lays in heaven the topmost stone

And well deserves the praise.