New Covenant Christian Fellowship

Fascinating. HT: BTW

If we emphasize the unity of God, we picture in our mind, a lonely, mysterious God who, we think, may have created man and woman because he was lonely. Much as a widower might purchase a dog to overcome loneliness, God made man and woman to have a relationship with.

The truth could not be further from this thought. Our God who is one in essence, is nevertheless three in persons. Before time began, God dwelt in perfect community, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Tim Keller states it this way: “So we believe that the world was made not by a God who is an individual nor by an emanation of an impersonal force. But by a God who is a community of persons who have loved each other for all eternity. These three persons live for the honor and glory of the others.”

And D.A. Carson illuminates the relationship of the Trinity with this insight: “What we have is a picture of God whose love, even before the creation of anything, is other oriented…There has always been an other-orientation in the very nature of God.”

In other words, God is both a unity and diversity. The diversity of the persons live for the unity of the Godhead and are others oriented.

What does this have to do with the family? In John 4:12 we read, ” No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God dwells in us.” John Stott comments on this verse, “In other words, the invisible God, who made himself visible in Christ, now makes himself visible in Christians, if we love one another. It is a breathtaking claim.”

A loving, unified family is a beautiful portrait of the unity and diversity of God. Just as God is diverse as Father, Son and Holy Spirit so a a family is diverse with husband, wife and children. And yet when that diversity is used to show honor to the different persons of the family and all are working for common goals, it portrays the invisible God to the world.

As fathers, mothers, and children, we have a high kingdom calling – to display the nature of God to the world! We walk it out as we both enjoy the diversity of the members who also live for the honor and glory of the others.

Oops

Thanks to the wrong-headed teaching of Harold Camping, some were taken in preparing for the end of the world on May 21st 2011. Others think that all that take the Bible seriously are as flakey as this guy. Now comes word that he has revised his prediction for October. Puh-leese.

One only needs to follow the words of Jesus here.

No one knows the day or hour that these things will happen.(Matthew 24:36).

Mr. Camping, you are a reproach to all who take the words of Jesus and the return of Jesus seriously.

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Think about the recorded appearances…

At New Covenant, we glory in the full forgiveness that Christ offers to any and all. Many of us were foolish and did things we now regret. And one of those things is have an abortion. Yes, members here have even had abortions before we became followers of Jesus. But through Jesus, that guilt that we carried has been washed away.

If you are considering having an abortion, please consider watching the following 3 minute video. No matter what you are facing, the baby has done nothing wrong. We are here  to help.

As a church, we have begun a series on prayer. Those four messages, Father, Helpless, Faith, and Desert, take their inspiration from the book, A Praying Life. Make sure you pick up a copy at our local bookstore and read it this year. It will take your prayer life to a deeper level. The sermons should be uploaded on the media page.