Hope Community Church
REFUEL Mid-Week Bible Study (May 3rd, 2017)
A casual, topical bible study to help "fill up your tank" in the middle of the week. Come as you are and dig deeper into the Word! • Coffee bar at 6:30 in the auditorium • Child Care (ages 6wks-5yrs) & Kids "Mid-Week Mania" (grades K-5th) provided
Locations & Times
Hope Community Church
1240 Jay St, Waterford Twp, MI 48327, USA
Wednesday 7:00 PM
Week 1 Review:
"Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God."
Attributes =
those things that God has in any way revealed as being true of Himself.
How has God revealed Himself to us?
1. In Creation.
2. In the Constitution of Man.
3. Through Direct Revelation.
4. Through Miracles.
5. Through Providential works.
6. In the Life and Experience of His people.
7. Through the Holy Scriptures.
Week 2:
The Personhood of God
Personality defined:
1. That which constitutes an individual a distinct person.
2. The sum of an individual's functions or characteristics
What has God revealed about Himself?
1. God is Self-Existent
"Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God."
Attributes =
those things that God has in any way revealed as being true of Himself.
How has God revealed Himself to us?
1. In Creation.
2. In the Constitution of Man.
3. Through Direct Revelation.
4. Through Miracles.
5. Through Providential works.
6. In the Life and Experience of His people.
7. Through the Holy Scriptures.
Week 2:
The Personhood of God
Personality defined:
1. That which constitutes an individual a distinct person.
2. The sum of an individual's functions or characteristics
What has God revealed about Himself?
1. God is Self-Existent
What has God revealed about Himself?
1. God is Self-Existent
2. God is Self-Sufficient
1. God is Self-Existent
2. God is Self-Sufficient
What has God revealed about Himself?
1. God is Self-Existent
2. God is Self-Sufficient
3. God is Eternal
Frank Turek Comments:
If current Big Bang cosmology is correct (and the evidence is very good that it is) then the entire space-time universe exploded into being out of nothing. Therefore, the Cause of the universe would seem to have these attributes:
• Spaceless…because it created space
• Timeless…because it created time
• Immaterial…because it created matter
• Powerful…because it created out of nothing
• Intelligent…because the creation event and the universe was precisely designed
• Personal…because it made a choice to convert a state of nothing into something (impersonal forces don’t make choices).
• He transcends time
1. God is Self-Existent
2. God is Self-Sufficient
3. God is Eternal
Frank Turek Comments:
If current Big Bang cosmology is correct (and the evidence is very good that it is) then the entire space-time universe exploded into being out of nothing. Therefore, the Cause of the universe would seem to have these attributes:
• Spaceless…because it created space
• Timeless…because it created time
• Immaterial…because it created matter
• Powerful…because it created out of nothing
• Intelligent…because the creation event and the universe was precisely designed
• Personal…because it made a choice to convert a state of nothing into something (impersonal forces don’t make choices).
• He transcends time
What has God revealed about Himself?
1. God is Self-Existent
2. God is Self-Sufficient
3. God is Eternal
• He transcends time
• He acted before time
1. God is Self-Existent
2. God is Self-Sufficient
3. God is Eternal
• He transcends time
• He acted before time
What has God revealed about Himself?
1. God is Self-Existent
2. God is Self-Sufficient
3. God is Eternal
• He transcends time
• He acted before time
• He dwells beyond time
1. God is Self-Existent
2. God is Self-Sufficient
3. God is Eternal
• He transcends time
• He acted before time
• He dwells beyond time
What has God revealed about Himself?
1. God is Self-Existent
2. God is Self-Sufficient
3. God is Eternal
• He transcends time
• He acted before time
• He dwells beyond time
• He created time
1. God is Self-Existent
2. God is Self-Sufficient
3. God is Eternal
• He transcends time
• He acted before time
• He dwells beyond time
• He created time
What has God revealed about Himself?
1. God is Self-Existent
2. God is Self-Sufficient
3. God is Eternal
• He transcends time
• He acted before time
• He dwells beyond time
• He created time
• He invites US beyond time
1. God is Self-Existent
2. God is Self-Sufficient
3. God is Eternal
• He transcends time
• He acted before time
• He dwells beyond time
• He created time
• He invites US beyond time