Announcements
The "fun bunch" Sunday school class invites the younger couples and younger adults and your children to come for breakfast Sunday May 16. We are fixing a light breakfast, serving around 9:30, in the hopes that all the younger couples and younger adults in our church family will come. We hope to prepare a breakfast for you once a month to help you get to Sunday school and enjoy fellowship with each other.
We have been there and know it is difficult to be everywhere everyday! So, in order to show you how much we love you and understand, we want to make it a little easier once a month!
Scripture
Ephes. 1:3-14 (ESV)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, [4] even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love [5] he predestined us for adoption through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, [6] to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. [7] In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, [8] which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight [9] making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ [10] as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. [11] In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, [12] so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. [13] In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, [14] who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Questions for Reflection
1. When did God choose us as belonging to him? We call this election.
2. What is the purpose of God’s election?
3. What has Christ done on our behalf?
4. What is redemption?
5. How should knowing that you were chosen to be in the family of God affect your involvement in evangelism?
6. Why did God do this amazing work for us?
