What is a "Gospel Community"?

Speaker: Dylan Branson
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:20; 1 Peter 2:11-12
Date: 2023-05-14

2 Corinthians 5:20

We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.

 

1 Peter 2:11-12

Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. 12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

 

 

Speaker: Nelson Suen
Scripture: Exodus 34:5-7
Date: 2023-05-07

Exodus 34:5-7

5 Then Yahweh came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, Yahweh. 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming,

“Yahweh, Yahweh, the merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, 7 maintaining love to thousands of generations, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.
 
Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.”

 

 

Speaker: Dylan Branson
Scripture: Romans 6:1-14
Date: 2023-04-23

Romans 6:1-14 (NIV)

Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

6 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

 

 

 

Speaker: Nelson Suen
Scripture: Ephesians 4:3-6
Date: 2023-04-16

Ephesians 4:3-6 (NIV)

Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

 

 

Speaker: Nelson Suen
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
Date: 2023-03-19

1 Corinthians 11:23-26 (NIV)

Correcting an Abuse of the Lord’s Supper

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.