2. BOOKLETS AVAILABLE 1.Suggested donation of $2 for small and $3 for large. 2.Write your name. 3.Join a small group bible study. 4.Begin to get to know one person each week.

3. NAME TAGS PASTOR REUEL

4. WELCOME TO THE FAMILY 10 New Names Hobby/Interest

5. GOAL FOR SMALL GROUPS Start 12 new Bible Studies during this quarter.

6. PRAYER WARRIORS

7. CHURCH PICNIC May 18, 2014 at Wilson Park After the third service

8. QUOTE “... today’s church is not a community but rather a collection of individuals.” p. 45

9. INTRODUCTION TO EPHESIANS BECAUSE OF MY BLESSINGS IN CHRIST I WILL BE PART OF A LOVING COMMUNITY WITH OTHER BELIEVERS

10. BLESSED BEYOND MEASURE I WILL PRAISE THE FATHER WHO CHOSE ME, THE SON WHO REDEEMED ME AND THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO SEALED ME SO THAT I MAY GLORIFY GOD

11. OPEN OUR EYES OPEN MY EYES SO THAT I MAY KNOW GOD WHO GIVES ME HOPE, RICHES, AND POWER

12. SAVED BY GRACE I HAD NOTHING WHEN GOD BY HIS GRACE PROVIDED EVERYTHING IN CHRIST SO THAT I CAN DO SOMETHING FOR HIM

13. WELCOME TO THE FAMILY EPH 2:11-22

14. Welcome to the Family Debby Kerner Rettino Welcome to the family We’re glad that you have come To share your life with us As we grow in love and may we always be to you What God would have us be a family always there To be strong and to lean on.

15. Welcome to the Family Debby Kerner Rettino May we learn to love each other More with each new day May words of love be on our lips in everything we say May the Spirit melt our hearts And teach us how to pray That we might be a true family

16. OUR UNITY IS THE BASIS FOR OUR COMMUNITY

17. DON’T JUST BELIEVE BELONG!

18. PAST WITHOUT COMMUNITY EPH 2:11- 12

19. EPH 2:11 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)--

20. EPH 2:12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

21. OUTSIDE LOOKING IN

22. PRICE OF COMMUNITY EPH 2:13- 16

23. EPH 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

24. PEBBLE BEACH

25. EPH 2:14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,

26. EPH 2:15 by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace,

27. ACT 11:1 The apostles and the brothers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

28. ACT 11:2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him

29. ACT 11:3 and said, "You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them."

30. ACT 11:18 When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, "So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life."

31. EPH 2:16 and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.

32. PREACHING FOR COMMUNITY EPH 2:17- 20

33. EPH 2:17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.

34. EPH 2:18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

35. JOH 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

36. EPH 2:19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household,

37. EPH 2:20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.

39. PRACTICE IN COMMUNITY EPH 2:21- 22

40. EPH 2:21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.

41. GRASSHOPPER CHRISTIANS

42. EPH 2:21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.

43. EPH 2:22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

44. WELCOME TO THE FAMILY  PAST WITHOUT COMMUNITY  PRICE OF COMMUNITY  PREACHING FOR COMMUNITY  PRACTICE IN COMMUNITY

45. WELCOME TO THE FAMILY BECAUSE OF CHRIST’S WORK ON THE CROSS I CAN NOW HAVE PEACE WITH GOD AND BELONG TO HIS FAMILY

46. JOH 13:34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

47. JOH 13:35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

48. OUR UNITY IS THE BASIS FOR OUR COMMUNITY

49. DON’T JUST BELIEVE BELONG!

50. JOH 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.