This Week: Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10, Psalm 19, 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a, Luke 4:14-21

Emmanuel Lutheran Church

Family Lectionary Study;

Alternate Sundays from 9:30 to 10:15 in the Gym

Set the Church-year Calendar. This is the season of Epiphany. Epiphany means “Showing outward”. “The Epiphany”, which is celebrated on January 6, remembers the visit of foreign wise men who came to visit Jesus. Jesus was “shown outwardâ€ﾝ to the non-Jewish world, beginning the new era in which God has chosen ALL people of the earth, not just the Hebrews, to be His Chosen People. During Epiphany we will read about the miracles that Jesus worked, which “showed outâ€ﾝ who Jesus is and what Jesus came to earth to do. Our own response must be to show Jesus outward to the community in which we live.

Review responses to last week's homework:

  1. Has the hour yet come for you to begin your ministry as an adult Christian?

  1. How can a Christian prepare for their call to ministry?

  1. In what way have you been gifted “for the common good”

  1. In what ways have you not been gifted, -- and who with in the Christian community does have those necessary gifts?

  1. In what areas is Emmanuel Church waiting for its hour to come?

  1. How do we as a church community prepare for a new call?

Memory Scripture:

27But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,

28Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.

29And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.

30Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

31And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

32For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

Next week: Jeremiah 1:4-10 Psalm 71:1-6 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Luke 4:21-30