Good Shepherd Weekly 8/1
Welcome Home Sunday
Worshiping our God—listening to him speak to us in his Word and responding with our praise—is always special. However, it can be especially joyful when the house is packed. The singing on Christmas Eve is great and the celebration on Easter Sunday is wonderful. But we can still have members who are out of town on those days.
The goal of Welcome Home Sunday is to have a day when everyone that is part of our Christian family comes together. After all, church is supposed to be a home, and believers are our family. This Sunday will kick off a series of services focusing on discipleship—what it means for each of us to follow Jesus. Thus, we want 100% of our members there.
Please do everything possible to set that date aside so that we can pack the house that day. Welcome Home Sunday is Sunday, September 11. A fellowship luncheon will follow the service, so plan on sticking around!
Council for Children Gala Invite
The Outreach Committee has been working to increase Good Shepherd's visibility and activity within the local community. To that end we have partnered with a variety of local non-profits such as the Greater Attleboro Area Council for Children. Members of the Outreach Committee will be attending the Council for Children's 2022 Gala. We would love to have a great showing of people from Good Shepherd at this community event and so you are invited to join us at the Gala. The Gala is on Saturday, September 24 2022 and is 6:00-11:00. The Gala will be held at the EnVision Hotel and Conference Center in Mansfield. The cost per person is $30. If you would like to attend please contact Pastor Goetzinger (pastor@goodshepherdattleboro.com) by August 21.
Summer Reading? Check out Galatians.
Martin Luther said of the in the introduction to his Commentary on Galatians, "In my heart reigns this one article, faith in my dear Lord Christ, the beginning, middle and end of whatever spiritual and divine thoughts I may have, whether by day or by night." For Christians the gospel is everything. It is the heartbeat of our spiritual lives. In short the gospel is "Christ for us"--Christ's life lived perfectly in our place, his life given innocently, and his resurrection from the dead. It is simple, but it is easy to get wrong. Or maybe better put: it's hard to get right. Along with your summer reading download this self study on the Book of Galatians so that you too live a Gospel life. Download here.
This Week at Good Shepherd
Sunday, Aug 7: Bible Study, 9:00am (in-person)
Sunday, Aug 7: Sunday Service, 10:00am (non-communion)
Sunday Morning Bible Study
Sundays 9:00am In-Person
This Sunday
Last week we learned the hard truth that while money can help make life easier in some ways, it cannot bring true happiness and fulfillment. This week we see that as much as money lets us down in life, its ultimate failure to deliver on its promises happens in death. Those who live with hearts filled with love for money and void of love for God will receive the only eternity that money can buy: one void of God and filled with pain. Though we might be fooled into thinking money helps in life, it will certainly fail us in death. Conversely, that which seems to offer little help in life will never fail us in death. The best example of this is the gospel. Living by God’s Word doesn’t make life easier. In fact, faithfully following Christ often means a more challenging life, one filled with crosses and self-denial. Yet those who find the help they need in God rather than in money will never be disappointed. In death they will receive a reward that dwarfs even the best things money can buy.
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