We look forward to being with you all at the Holt’s farm today at 3PM. Don’t forget your main dish and side/dessert to share and blankets or chairs for our potluck dinner!
In this week’s message, entitled “Charitable Judgments”, we looked at James 4:11-12. We heard how being a community of grace means being a people who assume the best about others. To better understand this way of living and relating, let us consider these questions:
- When can you be tempted to accept your judging as discernment? How can you know when you are judging?
- What disputable matters can tempt you to judge others? How can you go beyond tolerance to loving without judgement?
- How does love motivate us to not judge? What scriptures speak to this?
- How can meditating on the gospel help us in having charitable judgements towards others?
Let’s rejoice this week that we have not received the judgement we deserved, and let’s pray that we would display the grace that we have received.
Fall is in the air, and with it comes a KingsWay family tradition of sorts, our annual Harvest Party. Invite your coworkers and neighbors to join the whole family on Saturday, October 31 at 3PM at the Holt’s farm in Powhatan. We’ll enjoy informal field games, a family dinner, and conversation under the stars around a giant bonfire. Bring a main dish and side dish OR dessert to share and blankets or chairs for our potluck dinner!
Directions:
From North of the river:
Take 288 South to Huguenot trail West
Stay on Huguenot trail for about 13 miles
Turn left onto 522
Go approximatly 1.2 miles and turn right into Fox Cross Estates
Enter the first driveway on the right.
from South of the river:
Take Midlothian Turnpike (rt. 60) West
After 15 miles or so, take a right onto 522 (maidens road)
Go approximatly 3.2 miles and turn Left into Fox Cross Estates
Enter the first driveway on the right
This week’s message was entitled “Let the Nations Be Glad”. From Psalm 67 we heard how God blesses us, his people, so we can bless others. In order to better understand this, consider these questions:
- How does Psalm 67 point to the work of the gospel in your life and in the lives of others?
- Do you see yourself, as a Christian, capable of reflecting or displaying God’s glory? How is this possible? Why is this important to understand?
- When you consider the idea of being a “conduit of God’s blessing”, how do feel this is true for you? Particularly, how does this understanding challenge and/or encourage you?
- John Piper writes, “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the Church. Worship is.” How is this true? As a result, what are the implications for your life?
Let’s pray that God, by his grace, would use us as conduit’s of his blessings, proclaiming the gospel with our lives.
In this week’s message, entitled “The Grace of Giving”, we looked at 2 Corinthians 9:6-13. We heard how grace gives. To better understand the grace of giving in our lives, let us consider these questions:
- If God doesn’t need anything and can meet every need, why does he ask us to give?
- How does the idea of being a conduit shape your understanding of giving?
- Do you see your giving as “ordinary” or God-glorifying? What is the difference, and what is important about this difference?
- How can giving be an act of faith? What makes giving with faith different than giving without faith?
- How is it that God’s grace affects your giving?
Let’s give thanks this week that we have the joy of giving by faith and for the glory of God - not out of duty, but because of grace.
This week’s message was entitled “Convictions and Community”. From 1 Thessalonians 2:10-12 we heard how community strengthens convictions. In order to better understand this aspect of our life together, consider these questions:
- When you talk with others about convictions, what tends to pull you from being motivated by love? What can you do when these motives begin to direct you?
- When it comes to helping others with decisions, why is it so tempting to focus on your own convictions? How can you focus differently? Why is this so important?
- When is it difficult to trust in God’s work of grace in another’s life? What affect does this dynamic have on your relationships? In these relationships, how can you become confident in God’s grace?
Let’s pray that God would work in each of our relationships, that we may be compelled by love, focused on God, and confident in grace, as we continue to grow in being a community of grace.
Community Groups kicked back into high gear last month after the August break, including several new or reorganized group. The most significant change has been the creation of 3 new CGs designed for single adults as part of our Resolved ministry. Tim & Gail Emerson, who lead one of the singles CGs, shared the following encouraging testimony with me from a recent meeting!
“Our new singles community group has been meeting for a few weeks now. We’ve been excited to see God at work, especially around the Resolved message series, and the idea of thinking rightly about God. A few weeks ago we met to discuss Keith’s message on the Holiness of God. Thinking about God’s majesty, I was convicted that my life was spent more focusing on the shiny trinkets of life. We ended up praying for the last 15 minutes of the meeting that God would reveal himself to us. It seemed like everyone left wanted to know God in a deeper way.
Last week we one of the members asked for prayer that they would know God personally and not just intellectually. We had a good discussion on how God wants to reveal himself to us in our day-to-day lives. We’re praying that God continues to work in our hearts, and we’re looking forward to seeing what he does over the next few months.”
Thanks for your leadership, Tim!
