This document contains information about various small group Bible studies and discipleship opportunities at Vintage Church, including Sunday women's and men's groups, student ministry, and a notice about providing meals for a new mother. It also includes the scripture reading and sermon notes for a Sunday service on March 11, 2018 focused on Jesus saving people from darkness and bringing them into light through his life, death, resurrection, and sending of the Holy Spirit.

1. ~ Some Smaller “Discipleship Environments” at Vintage ~
Sunday Women’s Bible Study
3:30 – 5:00pm @ Vintage
Friday Morning Men’s Group
7:00am @ Milton’s
Men’s Haverims (Bible Discussion & Prayer)
Wed @ 7:00am @ Dillon’s on 6th/Wak
Thu @ 6:30pm @ PT’s on Indiana St
Fri @ 9:00am @ Wake The Dead
Branches Student Ministry (Middle/High School)
6:30 @ Vintage

2. ~ An Opportunity to Serve ~
Emily Schloerb
- Welcoming a new baby!
- Needs meals Mar. 12 - 25

4. ADVENT ~ Week 1
the fourth sunday in
John 3:14-21
~ Today’s Service ~
~ Sunday, March 11 2018 ~

5. NicodemusVisitingJesus
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6. NicodemusVisitingJesus
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7. “TheWorld”
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-John3:16-17-

8. Steadfast God, you reach out to us in mercy
even when we rebel against your holy call
and prefer to walk in disobedience
rather than in the way of your divine truth.
Soften our hearts with the warmth of your love,
that we may know your Son alive within us,
redeeming us and raising us up
into your eternal presence.
Amen.
A Lenten Prayer

9. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,*
so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever
believes* in him may have (life in the age to come.)
For God so loved the world* that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him may not perish
but may have (life in the age to come.) Indeed,
God did not send the Son into the world to
condemn* the world, but in order that
the world might be saved* through him.
John 3:14-17

10. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those
who do not believe are condemned already, because they
have not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world,
and people loved darkness rather than light because their
deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do
not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.
But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it
may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God."
John 3:18-21

11. ADVENT ~ Week 1
the fourth sunday in
John 3:14-21
~ Today’s Service ~
~ Sunday, March 11 2018 ~

12. The Three Tenses of Salvation
EPHESIANS 2:8
“For by grace
you HAVE BEEN
saved, through
the faithfulness
of Jesus…”
1 COR 1:18
“For the message
about the cross is
foolishness to
those who are
perishing, but to
us who ARE
BEING saved it is
the power of God.”
ROMANS 5:9
“Much more
surely then,
now that
we have been
justified by
his blood,
WILL WE BE
saved through
him...”

13. What Does Jesus Save Us FROM?
JESUS SAVES US FROM…
- The darkness of evil that is
destroying God’s good creation

14. N.T. Wright
“The darkness (and those
who embrace it) must
be condemned…because evil
is destroying and defacing
the present world, and preventing
people coming forward
into God’s new world.”

15. N.T. Wright
“…the evil which was and is in
the world, deep-rooted within us all,
was somehow allowed to take out its
full force on Jesus. When we look at
him hanging on the cross…what we
are looking at is the result of the evil
in which we are all stuck. And we are
seeing what God has done about it.”

16. What Does Jesus Save Us FROM?
JESUS SAVES US FROM…
- The darkness of evil that is
destroying God’s good creation
- The brokenness of idolatry that has
distracted from our God-given vocation

17. What Does Jesus Save Us FROM?
JESUS SAVES US FROM…
- The darkness of evil that is
destroying God’s good creation
- The brokenness of idolatry that has
distracted from our God-given vocation
- The loneliness of isolation that will
separate us from God’s life-giving
presence, now and in the age to come

18. What Does Jesus Save Us IN TO?
JESUS SAVES US IN TO…
- The light of goodness that reflects
the beauty of God’s new creation

19. Galatians 5:22-23
“…the fruit of the Spirit
is love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
There is no law against such things.”

20. What Does Jesus Save Us TO?
JESUS SAVES US IN TO…
- The light of goodness that reflects
the beauty of God’s new creation
- The wholeness of worship that
focuses our life around God

21. Unknown Source
“You become like
what you worship…
so the only thing truly
safe to worship is
Self-Giving Love.”

22. What Does Jesus Save Us TO?
JESUS SAVES US IN TO…
- The light of goodness that reflects
the beauty of God’s new creation
- The wholeness of worship that
focuses our life around God
- The togetherness of community that
connects us to the Triune God and
the Kingdom family, now and forever

23. From PLANET EARTH II
JESUS SAVES US BY…
- His cruciform life, death, burial
and resurrection HBS
This can lead me to worship; it can’t be
a substitute for worshipping
in the community
of God’s people.

24. HOW Are We Saved?
JESUS SAVES US BY…
- His cruciform life, death, burial
and resurrection HBS

25. HOW Are We Saved?
JESUS SAVES US BY…
- His cruciform life, death, burial
and resurrection HBS
- Sending us the Holy Spirit to empower
us to live that same cruciform life ABS

26. “…in the New Testament the death
of Jesus is not only the source, but also
the shape, of salvation. It therefore
also determines the shape of the
community – the community of the
new covenant – that benefits from and
participates in Jesus’ saving death.”
(see: “anticipatory participation”)
Michael J. Gorman

27. HOW Are We Saved?
JESUS SAVES US BY…
- His cruciform life, death, burial
and resurrection HBS
- Sending us the Holy Spirit to empower
us to live that same cruciform life ABS
- Growing the character of God in us
so we can experience the goodness of
self-giving love, now and forever WBS

28. Steadfast God, you reach out to us in mercy
even when we rebel against your holy call
and prefer to walk in disobedience
rather than in the way of your divine truth.
Soften our hearts with the warmth of your love,
that we may know your Son alive within us,
redeeming us and raising us up
into your eternal presence.
Amen.
A Lenten Prayer

29. Hear, O Israel:
the Lord our God, the Lord is one;
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your mind,
and with all your strength.’
And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
There is no other commandment
greater than these.
Mark 12