1. Welcome to Parkdale Evangelical Free Church!
JULY 23, 2017

2. Gatherings
Sun, Aug. 12pm
Potluck BBQ @ Eagle Beach Elk Lake

3. Reaching Out COBS Bread
Saturday night COBS & 7:20pm
Sunday distribution! Take as much as you’d like!

4. Going Deeper Weekly gathering – Tuesday nights in fall
Teaching video & small group discussion
12-step homework
Sponsor/mentor

5. Prayer
Requests & Thanksgiving

7. Kids’ Minute
Junior Church for kids up to 12 years old

8. Month
Book
January
Genesis 1-22
February
Genesis 23-50
March
Exodus
April
Numbers (Easter)
May
Joshua-Judges-Ruth
June
1 & 2 Samuel
July
1 & 2 Kings
August
Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther
September
Mark
October
Luke
November
Acts
December
Christmas (Advent)

9. God’s Story: Finding our Place in His Unfolding Plan
July Reading: 1&2 Kings
2 Chronicles 7 – A Call to Prayer
1 Kings 19 – Trusting God’s Whisper
2 Kings 5 – The God Without Limits

10. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without Limits Limited Belief

11. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without Limits Limited Belief

12. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without Limits Limited Belief
Materialist – no God
Freedom to compete selfishly for survival
Religion – great God, detached
Pride, part of exclusive group
Spirituality – any God, relative
Control, over own morals, not restricted

13. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without Limits
2 Kings 5: The God Without Limits God is at Work Everywhere (1-8)
Colossians 1:16-17
all things were created through Him and for Him.  And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

14. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without Limits
2 Kings 5: The God Without Limits God is at Work Everywhere (1-8)

15. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without Limits
2 Kings 5: The God Without Limits God is at Work Everywhere (1-8)

16. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without Limits Limiting God’s Work (9-14)

17. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without Limits Limiting God’s Work (9-14)

18. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without Limits Limiting God’s Work (9-14)
Titus 3:5
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to His own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit

19. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without Limits Limiting God’s Work (9-14)
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Romans 8:24
Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?

20. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without Limits Fools for Christ
James 4:6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

21. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without Limits Fools for Christ
Matthew 18:3-4
“Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

22. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without Limits Fools for Christ
1 Corinthians
4:10 – We are fools for Christ's sake
1:22-23 – For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,

23. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without Limits Fools for Christ
1 Corinthians 1:24-25
But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.  For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 

24. Communion
John 13: If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.

25. Communion
1 Corinthians 11: “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.  This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”