Reformed University Fellowship (RUF)

is hosting a lunch for new students on August 21! Held at the home of campus minister Steve Lammers, 3200 NW 16th ave. Rides will be available for anyone who wants to come. Steve can be reached at 352-281-0973

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August 14  2 options, a class on 1st & 2nd Peter, a workshop on personal evangelism
August 21  2 options, a class on 1st & 2nd Peter, a workshop on personal evangelism

August 28 (Vision Awareness Weekend) Six different ministry groups give updates and share vision.  You’ll choose 2 0f 6 presentations offered around the building

September 4  One option: Folks from our church who did summer mission trips around the globe will tell their stories

September 11  5 classes kickoff (Next Step Seminar, College & Crossroads, Parenting, et al)

“This is the true foundation of the Church’s peace, blessedness, and glory forever. Until the rock was smitten, the stream was pent up and man could do nothing. What human hand could bring forth water from a flinty rock? And so, we may ask, what human righteousness could afford a warrant for opening the floodgates of Divine love? This is the true way in which to test a man’s competency. He could not, by his doings, his sayings, or his feelings, furnish a ground for the mission of the Holy Spirit. Let him be or do what he may, he could not do this. But, thank God, it is done; Christ has finished the work; the True Rock has been smitten, and the refreshing stream has issued forth, so that thirsty souls may drink. ‘The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life’, says Christ. “If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink’…It was when the Rock of ages was cleft by the hand of God, that the floodgates of eternal love were thrown wide open and perishing sinners were invited to drink abundantly, drink deeply and drink freely”.

–C. Macintosh

This post will be a work in progress in the coming days, ultimately resulting (perhaps) in a section of the website.

1.) What is Communion/Lord’s Supper/Eucharist?
(Links to Catechisms and WSC, Packer Article, et al)

2.) How do I prepare my heart for communion?
(Links to various helps)

3.) When do we celebrate communion?
It is our current practice to participate in Holy Communion in our worship services on the  first Sunday of each month.

4.) How do we “do” communion at Christ Community?
A portion of this answer is who serves communion.  We make a distinction between administering communion and serving (or distributing) communion.  Administration of communion is reserved for those holding the office of Teaching Elder (i.e. ministers of the gospel).

Serving at Christ Community is done by the members of the church.

The elders maintain their clear leadership and oversight by training and overseeing the servers.

If you would like to be a part of the Communion Serving Team, come out to the training held August 20 at 8:30am.  We will meet in the sanctuary.

J.I. Packer: “Man was not created autonomous, that is, free to be a law to himself, but theonomous, that is, bound to keep the law of his Maker. This was no hardship, for God had so constructed him that grateful obedience would have brought him highest happiness; duty and delight would have coincided, as they did in Jesus (John 4:34; cf. Pss. 112:1; 119:14, 16, 47-48, 97-113, 127-128, 163-167). The fallen human heart dislikes God’s law, both because it is a law and because it is God’s; those who know Christ, however, find not only that they love the law and want to keep it, out of gratitude for grace (Rom. 7:18-22; 12:1-2), but also that the Holy Spirit leads them into a degree of obedience, starting with the heart, that was never theirs before (Rom. 7:6; 8:4-6; Heb. 10:16).”

Three helpful articles on God’s Law, from J.I. Packer’s book, Concise Theology:
Law – God legislates, and demands obedience
Law in Action – God’s moral law has three purposes
Conscience – God teaches and cleanses the heart