Upcoming Events:
Wednesday Night Bible Study - February 24, 2021 @ 7:00 P.M.
RCA Chapel - February 16, 2021 @ 8:30 A.M. Speaker: Stephen Renalds
Sunday Service: February 28, 2021
Morning coffee and fellowship @10:30 A.M.
Worship Service @ 11:00 A.M.
Saturday, Feb. 27 – RCA DRIVE-THROUGH SPAGHETTI SUPPER from 5:00pm-7:00pm
This is the major fundraiser for the Rockbridge Christian Academy. Tickets are now on sale in the office – still $8.00 per person. Posters are also available to help spread the word. Meal includes spaghetti, salad, bread, dessert, and a drink which will be picked up without leaving your car at designated stations as you drive through.
Thursday, Feb. 25 (begins at sunset) – PURIM
“Purim” comes from the word “pur” meaning lot (Est. 3:7 & 9:24-26) referring to Haman casting a lot to determine the best day to destroy the Jewish people. The hero, Mordecai, determined to do what was right despite the circumstances. The heroine, Esther, was willing to risk her life for her people. The God of Israel worked sovereignly to keep His promises and preserve His people.
POSTPONED
The annual membership meeting has been postponed until March
Wednesday Night Bible Study - February 24, 2021 @ 7:00 P.M.
RCA Chapel - February 16, 2021 @ 8:30 A.M. Speaker: Stephen Renalds
Sunday Service: February 28, 2021
Morning coffee and fellowship @10:30 A.M.
Worship Service @ 11:00 A.M.
Saturday, Feb. 27 – RCA DRIVE-THROUGH SPAGHETTI SUPPER from 5:00pm-7:00pm
This is the major fundraiser for the Rockbridge Christian Academy. Tickets are now on sale in the office – still $8.00 per person. Posters are also available to help spread the word. Meal includes spaghetti, salad, bread, dessert, and a drink which will be picked up without leaving your car at designated stations as you drive through.
Thursday, Feb. 25 (begins at sunset) – PURIM
“Purim” comes from the word “pur” meaning lot (Est. 3:7 & 9:24-26) referring to Haman casting a lot to determine the best day to destroy the Jewish people. The hero, Mordecai, determined to do what was right despite the circumstances. The heroine, Esther, was willing to risk her life for her people. The God of Israel worked sovereignly to keep His promises and preserve His people.
POSTPONED
The annual membership meeting has been postponed until March
From the Pastor:
SAVED TO BE GOD’S PEOPLE/GOD’S POSSESSION
Salvation is becoming the people that God has always wanted. We are “saved” that we can be God’s people. We are “saved’ for God – God’s own possession.
Genesis begins with the creation and fall of man and ends with the creation of a people through the Abrahamic Covenant (Gen 12, 15 & 17).
Exodus begins with a cry to, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.” (Ex 4), finds forgiveness through the blood of the Passover lamb (Ex 12), and hears their destiny through God’s promise, “you shall be My own possession” (Ex 19:5).
Leviticus, Numbers & Deuteronomy is the preparation process of becoming God’s people. In the wilderness they were free, but consumed with “self” and the “world” they had just come out of. This was the place of dealing with soulish ways and learning God’s ways. “You are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession…” Deut 7:6
The Book of Joshua is an entering into the promise land of serving and worshipping God as His people. Joshua said, “…as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Josh 24:15
The wonder of the gospel is that, “once we were not a people, but now we are the people of God…” 1 Pet 2:10 through, “Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us…and purify for Himself a people for His own possession…” Titus 2:13-14.
SAVED TO BE GOD’S PEOPLE/GOD’S POSSESSION
Salvation is becoming the people that God has always wanted. We are “saved” that we can be God’s people. We are “saved’ for God – God’s own possession.
Genesis begins with the creation and fall of man and ends with the creation of a people through the Abrahamic Covenant (Gen 12, 15 & 17).
Exodus begins with a cry to, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.” (Ex 4), finds forgiveness through the blood of the Passover lamb (Ex 12), and hears their destiny through God’s promise, “you shall be My own possession” (Ex 19:5).
Leviticus, Numbers & Deuteronomy is the preparation process of becoming God’s people. In the wilderness they were free, but consumed with “self” and the “world” they had just come out of. This was the place of dealing with soulish ways and learning God’s ways. “You are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession…” Deut 7:6
The Book of Joshua is an entering into the promise land of serving and worshipping God as His people. Joshua said, “…as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Josh 24:15
The wonder of the gospel is that, “once we were not a people, but now we are the people of God…” 1 Pet 2:10 through, “Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us…and purify for Himself a people for His own possession…” Titus 2:13-14.