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Element Christian Church

Acts - Whether in Chains or Free

Acts - Whether in Chains or Free

Locations & Times

Element Christian Church

4890 Bethany Ln, Santa Maria, CA 93455, USA

Sunday 8:15 AM

Sunday 9:30 AM

Sunday 11:00 AM

Welcome to Element

Thank you for joining us today. We hope you come to know more of who Jesus is while you're here. At Element we aim to <b>"To Glorify God by teaching and living out the Scriptures, transforming community into Gospel Community, and planting churches."</b>

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Pumpkin Killing - TODAY

Join us HERE at 4890 Bethany Ln for a day of fun, SAFE, outdoor, socially distanced Pumpkin Killing! There will be free pumpkins*, a food truck and more! Put on your mask and come out between 12-3.<br><br>*PUMPKINS WHILE SUPPLIES LAST

All the things

We mention all sorts of links throughout service, this is a summary of all of them in one place! Find our YouTube, eFamily's YouTube, ways to connect and more!

https://linktr.ee/ourelement

Want more info right after service?

Have questions? Want more information on Gospel Communities? Just need someone to pray with? Join us in our Virtual Welcome Center on Zoom following each service on Sundays.<br><br>Meeting ID: 561 729 0422 <br>Passcode: Welcome

Big Idea:

Paul used every opportunity to live for Jesus in the present. He reframes all of his life, and all of the Scriptures, in light of the Gospel (Jesus’ work on the cross on our behalf). Jesus freely chose to become weak, like us, in order to live the life we should have lived and die the death we all should have died.

Acts 28:20

Philippians 1:12-14

Acts 5:35-37

Matthew 7:12

1 Corinthians 15:3-4

Acts 28:17-20

Acts 28:21-23

Luke 24:20-23

Acts 28:24-28

Luke 24:27

Acts 28:23

Romans 5:8

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

How can physical chains be a witness of Jesus?
How could they be part of God’s Glory?

Typically, do situations and hardships in your life lead you to shaking your head at God or make you more confident in Jesus?

What were the words that were spoken to you when you first believed in Jesus?
What was explained to you?

Jesus turns what everyone thought was a failure into God’s definite act of redemptive Grace
What does that mean and what impact does that have on your life?

Why could spending time with others and getting to know their preconceived ideas about Christianity be important?

How can we practice and get better at re-telling God’s story and intent for redemption?

How are you just like Cleopas?

What external element do you seek for God to fix in you?

What are your biases? How has God reframed your life and biases?

In what areas do you think you know better than God?
How do those areas pull you out of being able to live in God’s Grace?

Do you believe that you have been sent by God into the world in order to be an agent of reconciliation?

Online Giving

Give electronically of your tithes and offerings here:

http://www.ourelement.org/give

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