When captivity is led captive, the Eternal God is the refuge of his people…Our sins which pursued us so hotly have been drowned in the depths of the Savior’s Blood. They sank to the bottom like stones, the depths have covered them, there is not one, no, not one of them left, and we, standing upon the shore in safety, can shout in triumph over our drowned sins, ‘Sing unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously, and all our iniquities hath he cast into the midst of the sea.” Charles Spurgeon

 

Hello families!  Please find the March Newsletter here:

March 2012 Newsletter

 

Here is the 2:44 trailer for the event Wednesday evening that will be in the office complex of Christ Community. This trailer, and Wednesday night, contains intense elements—because they are describing an intense situation.

“Love Costs Every Thing” Trailer from CIY Move on Vimeo.

 

Sam Storms discusses the question here

Also, John 6 has the umph of the open invitation (Whoever looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”)

AND the acknowledgement of the utter and complete sovereignty of God—see Storms article.

 

Literally, it is a false statement – in John 6 literal eating is not the way of true belief. On the other hand, the discourse functions to show that eating is a metaphor for believing and in this sense the metaphor is perhaps better inverted: in John 6 believing is eating.

In chapter 6:53ff., the evangelist is not emphasising the importance of the eucharist but pointing to an abiding belief in the ‘flesh and bloodness’ of the incarnation, which is the true end of all eucharistic rites and Christian discipleship.This means that if John 6 is not about the eucharist, the eucharist is undoubtedly about John 6.

–David Gibson, in a helpful journal article

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