WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN THE FELLOWSHIP HALL
6:30 PM
Thanksgiving “Pie” Supper
Bring Your Favorite Desert!
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
“To the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He graced us in the Beloved.” Ephesians 1:6
In the Gospels the word “beloved” is used mainly as an adjective.
But here “Beloved” is not an adjective, but a participle (a verbal adjective).
A participle is an action word, indicating that something is happening.
This participle is in the perfect tense, describing a present state that is going on.
Actually, it describes something that began to exist in the past, that exists in the present, and that will continue to exist in the future.
Thus, when Ephesians 1:6 declares that we have been “graced in the Beloved,” it refers to Christ in a state of actively being loved by the Father.
In other words, this love is not a static kind of love, motionless, or unmoving.
It is dynamic.
It is constant.
It is going on all the time.
It never ceases.
It is a radiating love that is in the Father all the time, just beaming out.
When Paul says that we are graced in “the Beloved,” he is speaking of Christ as the present, living concentration and embodiment of the divine love.
He is describing Him as continuously and perpetually being the object of the Father’s love.
There is a love-flow going on all the time between the Fatherand the Son, and we have been escorted by grace into this flow.
Until Tomorrow
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Bill Lawhead – Hospice
Charlene Shiflett
Darlene Thaxton – Home
Richard Blount
Amy Garner’s Mother
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Barbara Shed’s Family
Bill Moody
Carol Lawhead’s Brother
Charles Rambles
Charlie Sessom – Waiting
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Denise Stubbs – Kim Allison’s Mom
Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother
Hanna Hall – Pray for Grace
James Garner’s Brother, G’Son, & Daughter
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Vickie – Nancy Brown’s Daughter
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Michael Stanley
Nancy Brown’s Daughter
Nora Allison – Dustin’s Mom
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs
Rod Gustafson – Cancer
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmons Cousin
Tom Witcher