December 1, 2023
November Focus of the Month
Compass Charter Door Locking
We will be adjusting the time where the entry doors at Compass Charter lock on Tuesday nights for Adventure Club & Life Groups, so they will now stay unlocked until 7pm. However, from 7pm onwards, if any family arrives late, they will need to be let in by you or someone in your Life Group. Currently, they are locking at 6:30pm and we have volunteers from Adventure Club that monitor for late arrivals presently that will be freed up to serve in Adventure Club in other areas. Please communicate this change to your Life Group members, encouraging them to be there on time, and if they do arrive at 7pm or later, please have them call you to be let in. Remember the virgins of Matthew 25:10-13, who were unwise and therefore absent when the door to the wedding feast was closed and locked, and warn them to not be found locked outside. But also remember Matthew 7:7-8, that everyone who knocks, the door will be opened to them, and show grace for those who arrive late, seeking to enter.
Time Is Running Out - Deacon Retreat
The 2024 Deacons Retreat has been booked. We will be at the Hilton Garden Inn in Eagle Friday, 1/26/24, 6pm-9pm and Saturday, 1/27/24, 8am-12pm. For those who are interested, we will be providing complementary rooms. However, you need to register for the rooms by 12/8/23, next Friday. Whether you are wanting a complementary room or not, please register here. We look forward to this important time of encouragement and fellowship as we begin the new year.
Application Questions:
A World In Need of Saving
Safely Through the Flood
Genesis 7:1-8:19
Application Questions
Read Ephesians 2:8-10 & James 2:18-26. Why is it important for us to be precise in our thinking and our teaching in explaining that our works do not earn our salvation but are a necessary evidence of it? What problems will arise if we are unclear here one way or another?
As you consider Noah’s example of obedient faith, are there any steps of obedience that you are convicted that you need to take? If so, what?
Read Hebrews 6:11-12. Would you say you have “full assurance of hope” with regard to your salvation? Biblically, how is it possible to have confidence that you are truly saved and to have no fear of condemnation?
Read 2 Peter 3:11-13. How does the coming judgment make you rethink your priorities? How should your life look differently because of these realities?
Read Genesis 8:1. How does it encourage you in your current circumstances to know that God remembers his people? How can that motivate your patience, and what does that patience need to look like for you right now?
