February 4, 2012 - Church at Worship

Sermon: "The Second Bad Idea: Weeding the Garden" - Randy Roberts
Part 2 in the sermon series: Seven Ideas That Ruined the Church . . . and Two Others That Didn’t Help Any

Pastoral Welcome: Shirley Ponder

Children’s Feature: Patty Marruffo

Child Dedication: Gracie Nevaeh Herrera - Randy Roberts

Meditation:

According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like. – Stanley Grenz

When the world asks, “What is God like?” we should be able to say, “Look at the church.” As the body of Christ, we are to be like Jesus so that we too reveal God to the world. – William R. L. Haley

The church is the great lost and found department. – Robert Short

The Christian church is not a congregation of righteous people. It is a society of those who know they are not good. – Dwight E. Stevenson

Scripture Reading: Matthew 13:24–30, TNIV Lois Ritchie-Ritter
 

Sermon Notes:

The Christian church faces very real challenges in what has sometimes been called
a post-Christian age. The Seventh-day Adventist Church, in particular, faces some
of the same challenges, though it must be recognized that we also have our own
unique concerns and trials. Both suggest that this is a most important time for us
to give careful consideration to the theme of church. In this current series, we are
considering some of the places where the church has gone wrong, and what we
might do about it.

Note: Child dedications are baptisms are in the extras section of the DVD