1. The Providence of God
The Book of Esther

2. Mission: Loving God by loving others
Through Discipleship, Missions, Service, and Fellowship (4 Priorities)
Love, Passion and Compassion for people begins with a Passion (Love) for God!

3. 7 Areas to be a healthy Church:
Leadership
Care Giving
Lay Ministry
Stewardship
Evangelism
Worship
Assimilation (Incorporation)

4. 7 Areas to be a healthy Church:
Leadership
Care Giving
Lay Ministry
Stewardship
Evangelism
Worship
Assimilation (Incorporation)

5. 7 Areas to be a healthy Church:
Leadership
Care Giving
Lay Ministry
Stewardship
Evangelism
Worship
Assimilation (Incorporation)

6. 7 Areas to be a healthy Church:
Leadership
Care Giving
Lay Ministry
Stewardship
Evangelism
Worship
Assimilation (Incorporation)

7. 7 Areas to be a healthy Church:
Leadership
Care Giving
Lay Ministry
Stewardship
Evangelism
Worship
Assimilation (Incorporation)

8. Goals for 2019 (Evangelism) L: Lead 5 people to Jesus in 2019
(Assimilation – O: Open doors for involvement
Incorporation)
(Leadership) V: Verify our calling to Lead
(Worship) E: Energize passion for Jesus

9. God has a plan for my life, our church . . .
God has the power to carry out that plan …
Believe in God with a Providential Perspective!

10. Providence is the unceasing activity of our Creator’s overflowing bounty and goodwill, guiding and governing all events, circumstances and free acts of angels and men, and directing everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.
(Summary of The New Bible Dictionary)

11. Pantheism
Deism
Dualism
Indeterminism
Determinism
Chance
Fate

12. Providence is the unceasing activity of our Creator to do good, all for His own glory
God has a plan for my life, our church . . .
God has the power to carry out that plan …
Believe in God with a Providential Perspective!
Providential Perspective: Positive thinking and acting because God is working to do good for His own glory!

15. Esther 4:13-14 (NASB)
13 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the king’s palace can escape any more than all the Jews. 14 For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”

16. Esther 4:13-14 (NASB)
13 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the king’s palace can escape any more than all the Jews. 14 For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”

17. Esther 4:13-14 (NASB)
13 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the king’s palace can escape any more than all the Jews. 14 For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”

18. Esther 4:16 (NASB)
16 “Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

19. Esther 6:6-9 (NASB)
6 So Haman came in and the king said to him, “What is to be done for the man whom the king desires to honor?” And Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king desire to honor more than me?” 7 Then Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king desires to honor, 8 let them bring a royal robe which the king has worn, and the horse on which the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown has been placed; 9 and let the robe and the horse be handed over to one of the king’s most noble princes and let them array the man whom the king desires to honor and lead him on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king desires to honor.’”

21. Providence is the unceasing activity of our Creator to do good, all for His own glory
God has a plan for my life, our church . . .
God has the power to carry out that plan …
Believe in God with a Providential Perspective!
Providential Perspective: Positive thinking and acting because God is working to do good for His own glory!

22. Providential Perspective: Positive thinking and acting because God is working to do good for His own glory!