Below are the passages of Scripture we’ll be reading and studying each Sunday in worship. If you like, read and reflect on the passage during the week prior to that Sunday. Additionally, jot down thoughts you have or questions that arise so you can discuss them with other NCF attenders or your community group.

NCF Spring 2012 Scripture Readings

Below are the Scripture readings for the remainder of 2011 (until Christmas).  We want to read these texts together during the week, then study them on Sundays.  You should fine the date (beginning on a Monday) and four readings.  Try to find some time to read each of them throughout the week.  The more you can read them the better.

 
NCF Scripture Readings 2011

As we have seen in 1 Corinthians, the church is a body of Christians who are co-laborers for the progress of the Gospel.  Here is a brief questionnaire that will get you started as you consider ways to participate in the Gospel’s progress with people at NCF.

Ministry Survey 2011

Here is a quote from the great seventeenth-century theologian John Owen that offers somewhat of a commentary on what we desire at New Covenant:

“A church full of love, is a church well built up. I had rather see a church filled with love a thousand times, than filled with the best, the highest, and most glorious gifts and parts that any men in this world may be made partakers of.” – Sermon 21 (Colossians 3:14)

At 7:06 PM: New Covenant is currently still planning to meet tomorrow, depending on weather conditions. We’ll have another update around 9:30 PM.

UPDATED 9:47 PM: We have canceled our worship service in the morning due to the winter weather warning. Blessings to you, and a very Merry Christmas!

Often at Christmas/Advent we focus only on what has happened: the birth of Jesus Christ. But the Advent season is just as much about Jesus’ second coming as his first. This year at New Covenant let’s look forward with great anticipation to that day when all is made right, when the Kingdom of God is established in all its fullness, and when we are made complete. Christmas is a time to celebrate what has occurred with a view toward what will occur.

There are (at least) four activities in the community of faith that is practicing authentic Christian community:

1. Worship
Worship is participation in the progress of the Gospel. This progress is only and always through the proclamation of the Story of God at work in Jesus Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Christians worship when we remind one another of that Story in our weekly gatherings. When we sing, for example, we tell the Gospel to one another.

2. Community
When we do life with each other as Christians, it is so we can share life in the Gospel. Our friendships are the occasion for us to enjoy the Good News of God’s work in Christ making a people for himself from all nations.

3. Scripture
Because we belief Scripture is the self-revelation of God, we listen to it. And as listeners we both hear and obey. The Bible describes God, His work, and His way of life, so we conform ourselves to the way of life it prescribes for the people of God.

4. Mission
The Bible tells the Story of God’s mission to make a people for himself from all nations. This is Good News for all people! As participants in this mission of God we live Gospel-centered lives and tell the News of God’s grace in Christ to all people. What a great privilege to join God in his gracious work of reconciling the world to himself.

At New Covenant, we celebrate, practice, and proclaim the Story of God’s work in Jesus.

This brief list of ways to help your child learn to participate in corporate worship has just been posted on our “Youth and Children Page,” but we wanted to highlight it here as well:

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The Gospel of Jesus Christ is simple: God at work in Jesus Christ reconciling the world to Himself. That reconciliation includes the forgiveness of sin, the restoration of Life through resurrection, and reunion to a right relationship with God, and is effected through faith in Jesus Christ. Want to know more about that Story? The New Covenant Fellowship of Raleigh is the place for you.

New Covenant Fellowship: Authentic. Christian. Community.