2021 - Abide, Love, Grow.
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Looking Back with Gratitude
Looking Back with Gratitude
1 Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
Thankful for stewardship.
Thankful for stewardship.
Handicap ramp installed with new door.
Garage building project continues to see progress.
Facility Cleaned out and prepared for future use!
Faithful giving of the body.
Thankful for Partnerships
Thankful for Partnerships
Veritas Classical Academy started this past year and we were blessed to serve and welcome them.
Thankful for changed lives.
Thankful for changed lives.
Michelle Rheier Received Jesus and was baptised
Daniel Brown honored Jesus in Baptism.
Ezra Morgan chose to be baptized and his father Michael had the honor of baptizing him.
What made 2021 possible?
What made 2021 possible?
1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Abiding in Christ leads to Growth.
Abiding in Christ leads to Growth.
When God is at work, what does it feel like?
Pruning
Dependence
Growth
6 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
Our Growth Glorifies the Father
Our Growth Glorifies the Father
The proof is in the production.
What is this fruit?
Character - the fruit of the spirit.
Conviction - Steps of spiritual growth
Commission - Making Disciples
As we think of the young people giving their lives to Christ, our own growth, we see the fruit that God is growing in and through us as a family.
9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.
10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
Growth is expressed in love.
Growth is expressed in love.
Do you love your church?
Do you love your neighbor?
Do you love your family?
Do you love your enemies?
In this life we find his joy!
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.
15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
Love creates a family that reflects the Father.
Love creates a family that reflects the Father.
Our willingness to lay down our lives in love and service to each other bonds us as friends of God and each other.
This reality is evident in our church and we only keep it by abiding in Jesus.
Abide, Love, Grow
Abide, Love, Grow
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Love
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