Grace Church - 10323 28th Ave SW Seattle, WA 98146 (206) 937-8400 gracechurchseattle.org

LOOKING AHEAD

April 22 ·········· Financial Peace U. begins 6:45p

April 24 ·········· Dessert Dash & Big Band Shorewood

May 10 ·········· Mother’s Day

June 14 ·········· Breakfast & Annual Meeting

June 21 ·········· Father’s Day

June 27 ·········· Youth Mission Trip

June 28 ·········· Camp Car Wash

July 20-23 ······ Fiesta Day Camp

Pastor Ryan Faust Senior Pastor prfaust@gracechurchseattle.org follow on Twitter @RyanJFaust

Pastor Daniel Hill Worship & Assoc. Pastor danielh@gracechurchseattle.org follow on Twitter @danielhillmusic

Pastor Jerry Buell Children’s Ed & Family Ministry jerryb@gracechurchseattle.org

Pastor Nathan Schlaud Youth & College Ministry nathans@gracechurchseattle.org follow on Twitter @el_schlaudius

Janis Lemert Community Life Director janisl@gracechurchseattle.org

Let us LOVE God & people by praying for: Doris Bemis (healing fractured wrist and knee), Lottie Spencer’s

Family (Passing of Lottie), Heather Arrants & Family (accidental

death of husband Joe), Linda Davis (fractured shoulder), David

Rundall (foot surgery recovery), Larry Vittum-Jones (knee

replacement recovery), Elizabeth Lyshol (surgery recovery),

Pastor Nathan Schlaud (Bells Palsy), & ongoing health needs:

Bill Hall, Betty Saunders (dementia), Kim Smith (seizures), and

Martha Miller.

Prayer Requests Like to be added to the Prayer Partners distribution list? Please

contact the Church office. Have a prayer request? Call or email

the office during office hours. If the office is closed, call Barb

Stuart 932-7459 or Elsie McCoy 938-0644 who will get your

request to our prayer warriors right away.

April 19, 2015

FINANCIAL PEACE UNIVERSITY This life changing nine week class starts

THIS WEDNESDAY April 22nd at 6:45pm.

Coordinators for this class are Phil &

Melody Damron. Kits are available for

$99. Alumni: Please encourage others

to attend – And remember, if you need

a refresher you can attend for free!

Young Life Capernaum‘s Annual Free

BANQUET & SILENT AUCTION Saturday May 2nd, 5:30pm at University

Presbyterian Church. Featuring Guest

Speaker Steve Largent - former Seahawks

wide receiver & NFL Hall of Famer. Be the

12th Man for Kids with Special Needs.

Want to host a table or attend? Call Rich

and Carol Bianchi (206) 938-0377.

FROM THE FAMILY OF LOTTIE SPENCER

Thank you so very much to all who came

to my Mom’s beautiful service last

Sunday. Thank you for all of the cards,

nice words, and gifts. It was a wonderful

time of honoring my sweet Mom, for all

of her Christian endeavors her on earth,

and now, she has the privilege of being

honored in “Heaven” before her beloved

“Lord”, and honoring Him, and being able

to fellowship with all of her loved ones

that have gone before her. Thanks again

so much, Marcia, Ralph, Kim and family.

PLEASE THANK KATRINA VARNEY

for all her work as the receptionist here

at Grace for the last year and a half. She’ll

be moving on from that position and is

eager and excited to continue to seek

God’s direction for her career. Join the

staff in thanking her for her service!

LIVING WATER TODAY, after the service, there will be a

meeting for all those interested in going

on the Living Water mission trip to

Nicaragua, this November. If you can't

make the meeting, but would like more

info, contact Pastor Daniel.

CURRENT EVENTS MODERN ISSUES CLASS

We live an age of confusion regarding

good information, truth, and what to

believe about certain topics. With chaos in

the Middle East, ISIS, questions concerning

various religious beliefs and moral issues –

people have questions and wonder what

the Bible has to say about these topics.

Sundays, 9am room 122 downstairs.

FIESTA DAY CAMP FUNDRAISER Swing Band Dancing & Dessert Auction

at Shorewood Foursquare. Fri, April 24,

7pm $15/person. What a fun way to

support this awesome multi-church Day

Camp that reaches our community!

Purchase tickets TODAY in the foyer or

online through the Grace website. See

Tami Unruh or Pastor Jerry for details.

HELPING HANDS NEEDED There are many areas to help with the

Day Camp fundraiser. They include

making or soliciting cakes or other non-

frozen desserts (enough to feed 8

people); hauling, setting up &/or down

tables and chairs; cashiering, help with

dessert set up, serve beverages, decorate

tables, and helping with cleanup/reset of

Shorewood auditorium. Visit the table in

the foyer or contact Tami Unruh or Pastor

Jerry for more info.

THIS WEEK AT GRACE SUNDAY, APRIL 19

9:00 am School of Theology classes 126, 122

10:30 am WORSHIP CELEBRATION - sanctuary

1st-3rd grade will be dismissed

to Children’s Church

Kid’s bulletins available in the foyer

6:30 pm Youth Small Groups

MONDAY, APRIL 20

Church Office open 9 am to 4 pm

9:30 am MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers)

TUESDAY, APRIL 21

Church Office open 9 am to 4 pm

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22

Church Office open 9 am to 4 pm

6:45 pm Financial Peace University

7:00 pm Youth Group - the shack

THURSDAY, APRIL 23

Church Office open 9 am to 4 pm

FRIDAY, APRIL 24

Church Office closed

7:00 pm Dance & Dessert Auction - Shorewood

SATURDAY, APRIL 25

Church Office closed

10:00 am GriefShare - room 123

GRACE CHURCH exists to LOVE God & people, PROCLAIM Christ,

BUILD community, EQUIP the saints, MULTIPLY ministers, and missionally

SEND out followers of Christ to be the Church wherever we are.

CONNECT Welcome to Grace! Thanks for joining

us today. Feel free to bring your coffee

into worship and make yourself

comfortable. Take a deep breath, clear

your head, and prepare your heart

and mind to worship our Lord and

Savior, Jesus Christ.

Grace Church is committed to living

authentically in relationship with God

and others. Together we strive to meet

the needs here and around the world.

To learn more, grab a booklet from the

desk in the foyer.

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BUDGET THRU 4/12/15 BUDGET YTD $460,232.40 ACTUAL YTD 402,272.54

We are at 87% of budget for the year.

No other Gospel…Galatians 1:6-9 April 19, 2015

I. Christians, we often start off with grace & continue with law –

II. Paul’s cry of astonishment about turning from the Gospel – (Galatians 1:6-9)

Galatians 1:6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.

What is the Gospel?

Gospel = God’s grace because of Jesus’ work of redemption

What is the distinction between the Bible & the Gospel?

The Bible tells the story of: Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration

The Gospel focuses on: God’s grace because of Jesus’ work

BI: Don’t start with Jesus’ work and finish with your work to achieve grace.

“The Gospel is not the ABCs of salvation, but the A to Z of the Christian life.”

– Timothy Keller

What were the false “gospels” Paul was so angry about?

Judaizers vs. Libertines –

Galatians gives you a filter to analyze what’s from God & what’s not –

What Q’s do you have about the Gospel? Text – 314-669-8358

What are false versions of the “gospel” today?

Some “evangelicals” fear grace will cause us to sin more.

Some churches teach it doesn’t really matter what you believe as long as you are a good and loving person.

Some “fundamentalists” are extremely intolerant of minor differences.

What about Religion vs. the Gospel?

Religion tends to make people feel re-assured; something to measure.

Why it matters? What Paul is saying…

1st – following a different Gospel means you deserted the one called you by grace. To abandon the Gospel is to abandon Christ. (Gal. 1:6)

2nd – to slightly change the Gospel is to lose the Gospel. (Gal. 1:7)

3rd – a different Gospel brings condemnation. (Gal. 1:8-9)

John Stott said, “To tamper with the gospel is to trouble the Church…. Indeed, the Church’s greatest troublemakers (now and then) are not those outside who oppose, ridicule and persecute it, but those inside who try to change the gospel….Conversely, the only way to be a good churchman is to be a good gospel-man. The best way to serve the Church is to believe and to preach the gospel…”

The following is from Center Church by Timothy Keller

Religion Gospel

“I obey; therefore I’m accepted.” “I’m accepted; therefore I obey.”

“Motivation is based on fear and insecurity.” “Motivation is based on grateful joy.”

“I obey God in order to get things from God.” “I obey God to get God—to delight and resemble him.”

“When circumstances in my life go wrong, I am angry at God or myself, since I believe, like Job’s friends, that anyone who is good deserves a comfortable life.”

“When circumstances in my life go wrong, I struggle, but I know that while God may allow this for my training, he will exercise his fatherly love within my trial.”

“When I am criticized, I am furious or devastated because it is essential for me to think of myself as a “good person.” Threats to that self-image must be destroyed at all costs.”

“When I am criticized, I struggle, but it is not essential for me to think of myself as a “good person.” My identity is not built on my performance but on God’s love for me in Christ.”

“My prayer life consists largely of petition and only heats up when I am in need. My main purpose in prayer is to control circumstances.”

“My prayer life consists of generous stretches of praise and adoration. My main purpose is fellowship with him.”

“My self-view swings between two poles. If and when I am living up to my standards, I feel confident, but then I am prone to be proud and unsympathetic to people who fail. If and when I am not living up to standards, I feel humble but not confident – I feel like a failure.”

“My self-view is not based on a view of myself as a moral achiever. In Christ I am once sinful and lost, yet accepted. I am so bad he had to die for me, and so loved he was glad to die for me. This leads me to deeper humility as well as deeper confidence, without either sniveling or swaggering.”

“My identity and self-worth are based mainly on how hard I work or how moral I am, so I must look down on those I perceive as lazy or immoral. I disdain and feel superior to others.”

“My identity and self-worth are centered on the One who died for his enemies, including me. Only by sheer grace am I what I am, so I can’t look down on those who believe or practice something different from me. I have no inner need to win arguments.”

“Since I look to my pedigree or performance for my spiritual acceptability, my heart manufactures idols – talents, moral record, personal discipline, social status, etc. I absolutely have to have them, so they are my main hope, meaning, happiness, security, and significance, whatever I say I believe about God.”

“I have many good things in my life – family, work, etc., but none of these good things are ultimate things to me. I don’t absolutely have to have them, so there is a limit to how much anxiety, bitterness, and despair they can inflict on me when they are threatened and lost.”1

1 Timothy Keller, Center Church (Zondervan; Grand Rapids, 2012). 65.