Join us for the Foundations Fall BBQ Supper at the Williamson's on Sunday, November 6 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Invitations were mailed this past week. If you did not receive yours, please let Kelli Threadcraft, Bethany Henry, Mary Williamson or Cary Murray know and we will get you the info!
Prayer Requests: Sarah Squires mother's battle with breast cancer, continued prayer for Elliot Williams battling ovarian cancer
Praise! Sam Oberding was born to Sherri and Michael on Thursday and everyone is doing great!
What's Happening (Danny Given's Covenant Chronicles)
1. Created For A Purpose – It's not too late to sign up for tonight's (Friday's) fundraising night. There will be an opportunity to hear about we plan to expand CFAP to other churches. Come on up to the kitchen between 6-8 p.m. This has been a blessing to our church and we pray that many other women/girls will be impacted by it's reach.
2. Scott Roley – Please join us next Wednesday Night, Oct. 26th as we welcome the former pastor of Christ Community in Franklin, TN to share with our congregation. Scott has a passion for people and is a gifted communicator and singer. His work in orphan care/foster care, community renewal and gospel transformation will resonate well with our congregation.
3. All – Adult Sunday School - All Sunday School classes will meet October 30th in the Sanctuary as opposed to their normally scheduled rooms. Rev. Bill Boyd will be sharing more about our church, our worship and our goals.
4. One Day, One Voice, One Purpose - Orphan and Adoption Sunday – November 6 This will be one of the most exciting events of our church year – Join us for morning worship at 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. followed by a church-wide lunch at 12:15 p.m. in Fellowship Hall ($6 per person).
Theology 101
The Gospel: In and Over Culture
D. A. Carson:
No truth which human beings may articulate can ever be articulated in a culture-transcending way, but that does not mean that the truth thus articulated does not transcend culture.
Lesslie Newbigin:
Neither at the beginning, nor at any subsequent time, is there or can there be a gospel that is not embodied in a culturally conditioned form of words. The idea that one can or could at any time separate out by some process of distillation a pure gospel unadulterated by any cultural accretions is an illusion. It is, in fact, an abandonment of the gospel, for the gospel is about the word made flesh. Every statement of the gospel in words is conditioned by the culture of which those words are a part, and every style of life that claims to embody the truth of the gospel is a culturally conditioned style of life. There can never be a culture-free gospel. Yet the gospel, which is from the beginning to the end embodied in culturally conditioned forms, calls into question all cultures, including the one in which it was originally embodied.
—Donald A. Carson, “Maintaining Scientific and Christian Truths in a Postmodern World,”Science & Christian Belief 14/2 (October 2002): 107-122.
—Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans), p. 4.
Russell Martin will be teaching again this Sunday on Marriage. Have a great weekend!
