First Covenant Church
Believe: Before And After
March 8th, 2020
Locations & Times
First Covenant Church
2625 E Magnolia Rd, Salina, KS 67401, USA
Sunday 8:00 AM
Greeting - Paul Austin
Missionary Booklet
Email office@fccsalina.com for more info
40 Day Journey To The Cross
Follow along with a church-wide devotional leading up to Easter. Daily Devotionals and challenges will be posted on facebook. We invite you to respond in the comments about how your walk with God is being impacted.
Homestead Event
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John Wenrich Gathering
Email office@fccsalina.com for more information
6K For Water
The event is now live on facebook and our website if you would like to sign up
Kanakuk KampOut!
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We know that nothing is able to separate us from the love God in Jesus Christ. As we enter into God’s presence to worship Him let us in freedom confess the wrong we have done.
Prayer of Confession
WS 91 (no. 15)
Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry,
too real to hide,
and too deep to undo.
Forgive what our lips tremble to name,
what our hearts can no longer bear,
and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgement.
Set us free from a past that we cannot change;
open to us a future in which we can be changed;
and grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness and image; through Jesus Christ, the light of the world. Amen.
Prayer of Confession
WS 91 (no. 15)
Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry,
too real to hide,
and too deep to undo.
Forgive what our lips tremble to name,
what our hearts can no longer bear,
and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgement.
Set us free from a past that we cannot change;
open to us a future in which we can be changed;
and grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness and image; through Jesus Christ, the light of the world. Amen.
Choir Anthem - Great Things
Online Giving
God calls us to be givers, generous sharers of his abundance. In our giving, we participate in God's work in the world, and we participate in the transforming work God wants to do in each of us. Click on the link below to give electronically.
https://fccsalina.com/giveMessage - Before And After
Song of Response
All I Have Is Christ
https://www.amazon.com/All-I-Have-Is-Christ/dp/B018YWMQP2/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=All+I+have+is+christ&qid=1583510580&s=dmusic&sr=1-2Benediction
Life Group Study
BELIEVE: Before & After
OPENING
1) Have you ever known somebody who made a radical shift in their life that changed them from that point forward? Who was it, what was the shift, and what caused the shift?
GOING DEEPER
3) Read John 9:1-12. What strikes you in this first section of John 9? How does it challenge the worldview of the disciples?
4) Why does Jesus send the blind man to wash his eyes before the man receives his sight? Why is this step needed?
5) Read John 9:13-25. How does Jesus challenge the worldview of the Pharisees in this passage? What keeps the Pharisees from seeing Jesus for who He is?
6) In verse 25, the man who can now see gives a succinct testimony. What makes it so powerful? What does the man focus on?
7) If you are a follower of Jesus and had to give your testimony in two or three phrases (like the man here in John 9), what would you say? (It doesn’t have to be perfected, but take a stab at it. We’re all friends, right?) To help you with this, use the two questions below. Each of you take a few minutes to think about this and give it a shot.
APPLYING
8) If you are a follower of Jesus, how is your life different because of Him?
9) If you are a follower of Jesus, was there a moment or turning point that was pivotal in your life with Christ?