Today’s Service April 17-18, 2010

Video: God’s Attributes

Wide Awake Randy Wotring with Courtney Helman

Wide Awake

Mark Beeson

The Lost Get Found Lisa Vukmirovich with Laura Waltz

“Wide Awake” by Audioslave “The Lost Get Found” by Ben Glover and Britt Nicole

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4. He gives a new ______________________.

The Christian is _______________, cleansed and commissioned

to serve God.

Christians are cleansed and called to a life of spiritual growth and

service to God.

1 Corinthians 6:11 - “You were washed, you were sanctified, you

were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the

Spirit of our God.”

Peter wrote a letter to the Christians of his time reminding

them that they were “chosen and destined by God the Father and

sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ.”

(1 Peter 1:2).

Conversion ministers to the spiritual problem of lack of purpose

and direction.

Daily Bible Readings

Sunday Leviticus 17, 18 Matthew 27

Monday Leviticus 19, 20

Tuesday Leviticus 21, 22 Matthew 28

Wednesday Leviticus 23, 24

Thursday Leviticus 25, Mark 1

Friday Leviticus 26, 27, Mark 2

Saturday Numbers 1, 2, Mark 3

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Wide Awake Mark Beeson Granger Notes April 17-18, 2010

To summarize the results of Christian conversion; Jesus Christ

transforms human life in four ways:

1. He gives a new ______________________.

The Christian is _______________, counted as innocent.

Romans 5:1 - “Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we

have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Conversion ministers to the spiritual problem of guilt.

2. He gives a new ______________________.

The Christian is _______________, made a child of God.

Ephesians 1:5 - “He planned, in his purpose of love, that we

should be adopted as his own children through Jesus Christ.”

Conversion ministers to the spiritual problem of estrangement

from God.

3. He gives a new ______________________.

The Christian is _______________, given a new spiritual life.

Titus 3:4-5 - “But when the kindness and the love of God our

Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness

which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us,

through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy

Spirit…”

Conversion ministers to the spiritual problem of

spiritual inadequacy.

When a bishop wrote to John Wesley accusing him of believing

in “miraculous conversion,” Wesley replied: “Sir, I did not

know there was any other kind of conversion except a

miraculous one.”