NESS NEWS

Here’s what we’ll sing this week. Click for YouTube links to sing along to:

• All People That on Earth do Dwell

• Rise with the Sun, with new “Ness Languages”

• Holy, Holy, Holy!

• Great is thy Faithfulness

• Here is Love Vast as the Ocean

Our worship time begins with an opportunity for giving and to thank God for all He has provided for us.

On Communion Sunday we also take a benevolence offering. These funds are used to meet individual needs of those in need in our community. Just mark the amount under benevolence with your offering and it will be allocated to this fund.

Giving in person lets everyone take part and also models the practice of tithing to our children.

Individuals who wish to give in person should include your name and address on your envelope so a number can be assigned to you. Tax receipts are sent in January following the calendar year.

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No Ministry Update on Communion Sunday

Each week we read a congregational reading together.

This week the leader will read the question:

“What are the Sacraments and Ordinances?”

In preparation for Sunday’s question, let’s ask, “What is the meaning of these words?” (ref: Merriam-Webster.com)

1. Sacrament: a Christian rite that is believed to have been ordained by Christ and that is held to be a means of divine grace or to be a sign or symbol of a spiritual reality

2. Ordinance: a prescribed usage, practice, or ceremony

Now, familiarize yourself with the answer we’ll read together:

“The sacraments or ordinances given by God and instituted by Christ, namely baptism and the Lord’s Supper, are visible signs and seals that we are bound together as a community of faith by his death and resurrection. By our use of them the Holy Spirit more fully declares and seals the promises of the gospel to us.”

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?

You can read where Jesus ordains these practices in Matthew 28:19‍ ‍and Luke 22:17-19

We’ll read this passage together that shows us how the early Church faithfully practiced this teaching:

“So those who received his word were baptized, [...] And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.” Acts 2:41–42

We will have the opportunity to take Communion together this Sunday, in remembrance of what Christ has done for us. His body broken and his blood shed in order that we might have life. This justification is beautifully described in Romans 5, which ends with these words: “so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”