Bethlehem Lutheran Church of Ferrin gathers together this coming Sunday, June 14th at 9:30 a.m. to receive the gifts of our crucified and risen Savior, Jesus Christ. Pastor Mark Rabe will be officiating the service. The readings for the Second Sunday after Trinity come from Proverbs 9:1-10, Ephesians 2:13-22 and Luke 14:15-24.
Wisdom has issued an invitation to the divine feast: “Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight” (Prov. 9:5-6). This is the call of the Spirit of Christ to believe the Gospel and to receive His saving gifts in the Holy Supper. Many make excuses and reject this invitation, even as the Jews did in the days of Jesus, yet the Master’s house will be filled, shared the church. The Gospel call therefore goes out to the lowly and despised, into the highways, even to all the Gentiles (Luke 14:15-24). For “you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ” (Eph. 2:13-22). In Christ, believing Jews and Gentiles are no longer strangers but fellow members of the household of God. The enmity of class and race is put to death through the cross. Having been reconciled in the one Body of Christ, we are enabled to love one another (1 John 3:13-18) as we await the marriage feast of the Lamb in His kingdom which will have no end.
Sunday School and Bible Class meet at 8:30 a.m., folllowed by Divine Service at 9:30 a.m.
Divine Service is at 7 p.m. June 24.
Sat., June 27th – Vacation Bible School will be held at 8:30 a.m. June 27 with a theme of “Free in Christ.”
Weekly sermons can be accessed through the church website: www.bethlehemlutheranferrin.org. For further about the church, please contact Pastor Jonathan Jennings at (618) 545-9543 or bethlehemferrinchurch@gmail.com.