SERVICE TIMES Worship Center: Sat 5:30pm • Sun 9:00am • Sun 11:15am Center Court Community: Sun 9:00am • Sun 11:15am Sunday Night Gathering: Sun 5:00pm Loving God | One Another | And The World November 8-9, 2014 Welcome to Northview! Thanks for joining us today. Pastor Jeff Bucknam completes our “You Asked For It” sermon series from this summer by speaking on the topic of Homosexuality. We will also be celebrating communion this weekend. Worship Leaders This Week Worship Center: Jeri-Leanne Kemsley Center Court Community: Stephanie Reddicopp ____________________ Prayer Room Open during the services in the northwest foyer. The prayer request line is available at any time. Send requests via email to [email protected] or call the prayer line at 604-743-0201. Celebration of Communion As we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, we declare our thankfulness and love to our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, as we remember together that He died for our sins and rose again. We are also expressing our love and unity as the Body of Christ and a New Covenant people in obedience to Christ’s command to do this ‘until He returns.’ 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Psalm 24:1-6 (NIV) The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters. Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not trust in an idol or swear by a false god. They will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God their Savior. Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, God of Jacob. This week we’re praying for… 1. Local Church: The River Church 2. Missionaries: Elgin and Dorothy Taylor • Ghana and Sierra Leone Elgin and Dorothy are currently in Jamaica to help establish a ministry base for Training and Empowering Leaders (TEL). A spring break kick-off is planned for 2015 in May Pen, Jamaica. Please pray for the kick-off and for Elgin and Dorothy as they make new contacts in the Seattle area. Please also pray for the Academy in Sierra Leone as six children and several parents have passed away from the Ebola epidemic. Information Christmas Drama “The Oddville Stranger” features special guest actors, Pastor Jeff and Pastor Ezra! December 4 - 6 and 11 - 13. Tickets are on sale in the foyer after each of the services this weekend. We still need volunteers! Please contact Carrie at cklassen@ northview.org if you can help. Women’s Weekend 2015 Thank You Northview! Compassion Canada and the Northview Missions department want to thank you for sponsoring 270 children last weekend. These children’s lives will be changed in amazing ways. Did you know that Compassion kids are 27-40% more likely to finish secondary education, about 35% more likely to have whitecollar employment as adults, and 40-70% more likely to become church leaders than those who have no outside support? It works! Be encouraged and keep writing to your sponsor child. Operation Christmas Child The last day to drop off shoeboxes is November 16. Are you having difficulty deciding what to put in The 4th annual Northview Women’s a shoebox? We have help for you! Visit our packing Weekend is happening from January idea display table in the front foyer. Please email any 30 - February 1 at Warm Beach questions you may have to occ_abbotsford@telus. Camp and Conference Center. This net. inter-generational weekend will be a great time of fellowship, laughter, and learning together. Women 13 and Teaching Associate Residency Opening older are encouraged to attend. Bring Northview is currently looking for a Teaching Associate Pastor to join our your daughter, mother, friend, sister! Teaching Associate Residency Program. This program is a 2 year residency Join us to learn about what it means designed to raise up pastoral leaders who have a passion for the local church. to be “Mature in Christ” (Colossians This position will focus primarily on developing teaching and preaching skills by 1:28). Registration is online at experiencing multi-faceted local church ministry. If you are interested please northview.org/women. forward your resume to Kim at [email protected]. The deadline for submissions is January 5, 2015. You can view the job description at northview. org/employment-opportunities. Missions Trip Opportunity Sunday Night Gathering STEP Ministries invites you to Northern India from January 7-19. Families are welcome. Cost is $2500 per person. This will be an opportunity to visit children’s clubs, help women in need, and participate in a pastors’ conference. Please email [email protected] for more information. We are in need of volunteers for our Sunday night service! If you are Northview Community Groups interested in getting involved with the If you are seeking genuine community and spiritual friendships, please check Info Team or serving in the kitchen, out our community groups online at northview.org/community-groups. please email Jodie at jcrocker@ northview.org. Last wknd giving: $ 142,480 Wknd target: $ 109,615 YTD giving: YTD target: Northview’s fiscal year is July 1 - June 30 Find the Bulletin Online at b.northview.org $ 1,671,298 $ 1,973,070 This Weekend and Beyond Annual General Meeting Join us on Monday, November 24 at 7:00pm for our AGM in Center Court. The AGM package will be available at the Info Booth on the weekends from November 8 - November 23. Podcast Extra Calendar Northview Kids Check-in: All children and volunteers are to check in at the Northview Kids registration zone. Pick-Up: 6m - Age 4: Pick up in Noah’s Park on the main floor. Kindergarten - Grade 4: Pick up from the second floor classrooms. 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Thanks so much northview.org. for listening! 10 Mon Jump6 (Grade 6) 6:30pm • West Court Pray First 7:00pm • Prayer Room Courses for Care 7:00pm • Upstairs Classrooms Men’s Bible Study 7:00pm • Room 219/221 Women’s Bible Study 7:00pm • Atrium 8 Week Life Groups 7:00pm • Lower Court 11 Tue Office and Facilities Closed 12 Wed Women’s Bible Study 9:15am • Center Court Northview Kids Choir 3:30pm • Lower Court Youth Drop-in Sports 4:00pm • Bubble TLC Classes 6:30pm • Center Court 13 Thu Work Out Worship 9:15am • West Court Watchmen Prayer 10:00am • Prayer Room Youth Drop-in Sports 5:00pm • Bubble Young Adults Roller Hockey 7:00pm • Bubble High School Pastorates 6:30pm • Various Locations Precepts Bible Study (Women) 7:30pm • West Court 14 Fri No Scheduled Events 15 Sat Men’s Breakfast 8:15am • Center Court Center Court Meal 4:15pm • Center Court Young Adults Dodgeball 7:00pm • Bubble 16 Sun Punjabi Connection 3:00pm • Atrium Men’s Floor Hockey 7:00pm • Bubble The Christian and Homosexuality (All Verses from ESV Bible Version) 2 Timothy 3:16: All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5: For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God… Leviticus 20:10-15: If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 11 If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. 12 If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed perversion; their blood is upon them. 13 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. 14 If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you. 15 If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11: Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. Romans 1:21, 26-27: For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened…. 26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. Romans 6:17: But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed… Page 1 Ephesians 2:1-3: And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. Romans 8:7: For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Psalm 51:5: Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Mark 1:16-20: Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 17 And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” 18 And immediately they left their nets and followed him. 19 And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets. 20 And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed him. Mark 2:13-14: He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. 14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him. Mark 8:34-35: And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. Romans 1:28-31: And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5: For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ… Page 2 Matthew 5:43-45: You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 1 Corinthians 5:1-13: It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. 2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you 3 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. 4 When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened…9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. 12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? 13 God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.” Page 3