Stanardsville United Methodist Church
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Sunday School

                                        Children's Ministry

                                          Living Inside Out

 

Living Inside Out Sunday School for Kids and Youth: Fill 'em up with LOVE
Stories and themes for this month include Jesus as the Light of the World, Job's First test, Jesus is annointed with Oil and John tells how the Holy Spirit loves us
Come be a part of the fun... take the challenged....live your faith from the inside out!   SUMC children are looking for a few good people to share their walk with. Please see Anna King for more info
 

 

 
 
Childrens Worship: Preschool through 5th grade each Sunday at 8:30 and 11:00.  Join us as we celebrate all God's love and grace for His children through music, prayer, stories, arts and crafts, and games.

 

 

                                          Adult Sunday School Ministry

 

1.  The "Discovery Zone" Sunday School group is on a journey, they are taking " A Walk Through the Bible".  Everyone interested in gaining a better understanding of the bible and maybe even discovering some parts that you haven't read for a long time, please come join us - there's plenty of room!

  

  • 2.  Adult Bible Studies, a Uniform Series Bible Study led by Linda Twyman  

     

     
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        I was just wondering....

     
                                                                                              Why all this talk of humble submission?
     
     

                                                                      Unless we are able to humbly submit to an authority greater than ourselves we are always living under our own control – according to our own will. As long as we are in charge we are in effect our own god – we live and work according to our own desires – our own will – our own wisdom.

    In order for God to be the Lord of our lives, it is necessary to submit to God’s authority

    and God’s will – to release our lives to God’s control. This is extremely counterintuitive

    to the ways of the world – but the world’s ways are not God’s ways. So….how do we

    humbly submit?

    First by humbly acknowledging that we will never be able to be smart enough, skilled

    enough, or good enough to free ourselves from sin – what a humbling acknowledgment!

    Second, by humbly acknowledging that only through the death of Jesus Christ are we

    freed from sin and made righteous (justified, right with) God. It is as we believe that

    Christ died for EACH of us and believe in that liberating truth that we are free to live

    forever.

    Third, this humble acknowledgment leads us to submit ourselves to God’s authority –

    God’s control – God’s rule – over our lives. The means of grace we use in order to find

    God’s will so that we might submit to Him is through searching the scripture.

    Fourth, even the humble acknowledgment and intended submission to God is not

    something we can do alone. We are called to submit to the power of the Holy Spirit to

    infill us (reside in us) and work within us to transform us to the true children of God –

    those who reflect God in the world.

    As we humble ourselves before God, receive God’s gift of salvation and eternal life, and

    place ourselves under God’s authority and receive the Holy Spirit, we will continue to

    find more and more places in need of submission and obedience – and praise God! For

    the Spirit will work in and through us to make us holy (sanctify us) and present us as

    perfect and pleasing to God in glory!