Christ First Ministries Church

🎉🎂Happy Birthday to the following church members for the month of October! 🎂🎉

We are thankful for each of you and grateful for the blessing you are to our church family.

Join us tomorrow as we worship the One we call Lord!

📖 Small Groups at 9
⛪️ Worship at 10

We can’t wait to see you all there! Invite a friend!

📖 What’s your favorite Bible verse?

We’d love to hear the verses that have encouraged, challenged, or meant something special to you. Share yours in the comments!

For I am meek and lowly in heart” (Matt. 11.28,29).

“Lowliness” was a despised quality in proud Rome. The Gr. word means, “not rising far from the ground.” Strong’s says it meant, “deferring servilely to others.” Christ’s lowliness/ servility was such that He threw a party for a prodigal who came home only when he had nowhere else to go. His servility is seen in a statement like: “Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven Him.” His servility accepted a deathbed confession from a crucified criminal.

His servility forgave a man who acted a coward under fire, and then restored him to the apostolic pastorate on the condition of love. Read how God reacted when that debauched, evil man Ahab showed the tiniest speck of repentance (1 Kgs. 21.27–29).

Be reminded of how it was God’s lowliness/servility that angered Jonah when He (God) “relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon Nineveh . . . but did not do” (Jon. 3.10).

If we, in our self-righteousness, have ever protested when some sinner didn’t pay his pound of flesh, or when it seemed someone was let off the hook, or when a sinner didn’t do enough penance or groveling (in our opinion) to atone for his sin, we’ve a lot to learn about the grace and mercy that make up the “manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of
God” (1 Jn. 3.1).

In the judgment, I want a judge who will let me off the hook. I’m guessing
Jonah, the elder brother, and you will want the same. -Chumbley

✨Proverbs of the Day✨

Memory verse for the week! 🩵