Hope Community Church
REFUEL Mid-Week Bible Study (May 16th, 2018)
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! • Hope's Coffee Café - coffee/tea bar in the foyer from 6:30-6:55 PM • 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
“Perseverance [Part 4]”
(1 Peter 1:13-16)
Perseverance defined:
(1) patient endurance in the face of adversity or opposition
(2) repeated behavior in spite of resistance
(1 Peter 1:13-16)
Perseverance defined:
(1) patient endurance in the face of adversity or opposition
(2) repeated behavior in spite of resistance
I. Practical holiness involves a contrast.
I. Practical holiness involves a contrast.
Defined:
The state of being strikingly different from something/someone else.
• Right thinking leads to right living.
How do you see yourself?
1. I am a sinner saved by grace.
2. I am a saint who occasionally sins.
• Our positional holiness calls for a life of practical holiness.
• It’s not just doing right things (motion) it is doing things right (motive).
Defined:
The state of being strikingly different from something/someone else.
• Right thinking leads to right living.
How do you see yourself?
1. I am a sinner saved by grace.
2. I am a saint who occasionally sins.
• Our positional holiness calls for a life of practical holiness.
• It’s not just doing right things (motion) it is doing things right (motive).
II. Practical holiness requires a separation.
II. Practical holiness requires a separation.
• Separation alone does not equal holiness.
• The church is the center of the alternative lifestyle.
• Separation from the world gives evidence of God's work of grace in us.
• Separation alone does not equal holiness.
• The church is the center of the alternative lifestyle.
• Separation from the world gives evidence of God's work of grace in us.
In Conclusion:
In what ways is your life reflecting God's work of grace?
In what ways is your life reflecting God's work of grace?