Fairview Methodist Church

After our month long Membership class that included current and potential members, we celebrated our togetherness with a banquet! Current members renewed their covenant and 8 new members entered into covenant at Fairview Methodist. The Lord is moving among us and calling us to be an authentic church built on truth, tradition, and togetherness.

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Love Conquerors All The Pharisees were a group of Jewish leaders who emerged after the Babylonian exile. They were highly educated in the law and committed to ensuring that Israel never again faced exile due to disobedience. Their intentions were good, but their ex*****on was misguided. They focused on strict adherence...

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Believers, Unbelievers, and Betrayers In yesterday’s Gospel lesson, we explored John 6:59-69, which concludes our detour from the Gospel of Mark that we will return to next week. In this detour, we have been walking through chapter 6 of the Gospel of John, which begins with feeding the 5000, Jesus walking on water, and the crowds sear...

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Mystery Meat Despite my attempts to articulate the meaning of eating Jesus’ flesh and drinking His blood, it is still cloaked in Mystery. It is hard to understand because it is only something that can be spiritually discerned. Those not of the Spirit will think what Jesus says is strange and weird. This is evi...

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Faith & Life in Jesus The crowd following Jesus struggled to understand who Jesus truly was. They saw Him perform miracles but failed to recognize Him as the Son of God. Jesus points out their lack of faith, emphasizing that seeing Him physically does not equate to truly knowing Him.

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Put First Things First In this week's gospel lesson, found in John 6:24-35, we start examining a lengthy discussion about the Bread from Heaven that will continue for the next few weeks. In this part of the discussion, Jesus addresses the crowd that followed Him after the miraculous feeding of the 5,000. He points out tha...

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2024 Olympic Opening Ceremony

The Lord’s Supper or Not the Lord’s Supper? That is the question.

Right now, the buzz is whether the Opening Ceremony in Paris portrayed The Lord’s Supper or a different pagan supper referencing The Bacchanal. To learn more about this particular perspective, there is a great article shared with this post that is worth a read.

What I want to contribute to the conversation, in terms of a Christian voice, are the words of Paul, which I find to be most fitting. Not only his words, which address the truth of the matter, but also his heart in expressing the emotion of the matter.

Concerning pagans, Paul writes,
“For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.” (Phil. 3:18-19)

But concerning Christians, Paul writes,
“Among them, we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ.” (Eph. 2:3-5)

We cannot be surprised at the world’s mockery of Christ; it should cause us to weep but also stir us up to share the gospel, which is the very thing that saved us from being an agent of mockery to a recipient of mercy. Their only hope to be saved from the wrath to come is Christ, and we are the ones who can offer Christ to them.

- Pastor Bruce

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The Bacchanal and the Communion Table Why look for life where there is no life at all?

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Understanding Jesus' Miracles In this week's sermon, we took a detour from the Gospel of Mark to explore John 6:1-21, which recounts two of Jesus' most well-known miracles: the feeding of the 5000 and Jesus walking on water. These miracles are significant not only because they are recorded in multiple Gospels but also because th...

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Down and Up Yesterday we learned how Jesus viewed the large crowd as sheep who are in of a Shepherd. The Shepherd imagery comes to us from the Old Testament in several places; but in Ezekiel 34, we are given a lengthy word from God concerning Shepherds. Today I want to turn our attention to Ezekiel 34 to provid...

Men’s Prayer Breakfast this Saturday, July 20th at 8:00am at Fairview Methodist. Let’s see what happens when Godly Men get together!

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