Welcome to Parkdale Evangelical Free Church!

1. Welcome to Parkdale Evangelical Free Church! JULY 23, 2017

2. Gatherings Sun, Aug. 20 @ 12pm • Potluck BBQ @ Eagle Beach Elk Lake

3. Reaching Out COBS Bread • Saturday night pick-up @ COBS& bagging @ church @ 7:20pm • Sunday distribution!Take as much as you’d like!

4. Going Deeper • Weekly gathering – Tuesday nights in fall • Teaching video & small group discussion • 12-step homework • Sponsor/mentor

5. Prayer • Requests & Thanksgiving

7. Kids’ Minute • Junior Church for kids up to 12 years old

9. God’s Story: Finding our Place in His Unfolding Plan • July Reading: 1&2 Kings • 2 Chronicles 7– A Call to Prayer • 1 Kings 19– Trusting God’s Whisper • 2 Kings 5 – The God Without Limits

10. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without LimitsLimited Belief

11. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without LimitsLimited Belief

12. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without LimitsLimited Belief Materialist – no God • Freedom to compete selfishly for survival Religion – great God, detached • Pride, part of exclusive group Spirituality – any God, relative • Control, over own morals, not restricted

13. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without LimitsGod is at Work Everywhere (1-8) Colossians 1:16-17 • all things were created through Him and for Him.  AndHe is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

14. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without LimitsGod is at Work Everywhere (1-8)

15. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without LimitsGod is at Work Everywhere (1-8)

16. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without LimitsLimiting God’s Work (9-14)

17. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without LimitsLimiting God’s Work (9-14)

18. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without LimitsLimiting God’s Work (9-14) Titus 3:5 • He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to His own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit

19. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without LimitsLimiting God’s Work (9-14) Hebrews 11:1 • Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Romans 8:24 • Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?

20. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without LimitsFools for Christ James 4:6 • But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

21. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without LimitsFools for Christ Matthew 18:3-4 • “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

22. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without LimitsFools for Christ 1 Corinthians • 4:10 – We are fools for Christ's sake • 1:22-23 – For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,

23. 2 Kings 5:1-14 - The God Without LimitsFools for Christ 1 Corinthians 1:24-25 • But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 

24. Communion John 13:14-17 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 15For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. 

25. Communion 1 Corinthians 11:23-25“This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me. This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”