{"id":1149,"date":"2014-09-06T15:34:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T22:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2014-09-06T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T22:36:36","slug":"beholding-god-in-the-work-of-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=1149","title":{"rendered":"Beholding God in the Work of Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beholding God in the Work of Salvation \u2013 DVD 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Adult Sunday School is in a new series that is based on DVD\u2019s and the name of the series will be at the head of every lesson.\u00a0 It is not easy to transcribe an entire lesson from the lecture on DVD, but I\u2019ll attempt to take notes and let you know the primary topics and main points in every message.\u00a0 From there, you will have to fill in the blanks.<\/p>\n

It will generally take two weeks to cover each DVD since there is the message, which is about 45 minutes, and there is a practical application, which will be covered the following week.\u00a0 I will make notes of some of the more memorial quotes and if this sounds interesting to you, you might do some research and find the series online.\u00a0 The primary instructor is John Snyder.<\/p>\n

Email intro: \u00a0When and how does the remarkable become mundane and ordinary?\u00a0 This question appears to be at the root of the lesson this week and last week.\u00a0 Think about that for just a moment.\u00a0 Has the work of God become ordinary in your life?\u00a0 One thing that never becomes ordinary around our house is Thanksgiving.\u00a0 There have been times when the planning begins months in advance.\u00a0 We usually know around the end of September or early October who will host.\u00a0 Some members in our family begin to diet two months in advance because they don\u2019t want to have to worry about dieting during that holiday.\u00a0 And there are favorites that we try to be sure are there \u2013 like sweet potatoes, ambrosia salad, turkey and sometimes even ham.\u00a0 There is nothing ordinary about our Thanksgiving Day meal.\u00a0 I believe that is because my wife refuses to permit it to get mundane.\u00a0 Ho-hum.\u00a0 We should approach our worship of God in a similar fashion.\u00a0 We should refuse to permit our relationship with God to be boring or mind numbing.\u00a0 We should continue to seek to find the wonder of all He does in us and around us.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t happen naturally.\u00a0 Naturally we are all drawn to a routine.\u00a0\u00a0 But then the Christian life isn\u2019t supposed to be the same old, same old.\u00a0 the Christian life is not the natural life.\u00a0 We are new creatures, are we not?<\/em><\/p>\n

Week Five \u2013 Beholding God in the Work of Salvation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Week one begins with a biography about George Whitefield.\u00a0 Some of the high and low points of his life and a little about what drove him.\u00a0 B. early 1700\u2019s, during his years of college he was drawn to a group of believers by the kindness of Charles Wesley.\u00a0 Ordained in 1736, he took a church in Massachusetts in 1746. He visited the US some 7 times until he moved here, each trip taking 6 \u2013 8 weeks to make the journey.\u00a0 During the travel, he read the Puritan authors in depth.\u00a0 Often he would preach 20 times a week and was known to have preached before 20,000 people at one event.\u00a0 Some quotes that were given include:<\/p>\n