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UPCOMING EVENTS
February 2—No Children’s Sunday school
February 9—Children’s Sunday School Resumes
August 13-15—Vacation Bible School
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Next Week: Pastor John Olson—”What is the Church” 1 Corinthians 12:12-27
“What is the Church” 1 Corinthians 12:12-27
Pastor John Olson
January 26, 2020
1 Corinthians 12:12-13
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all
the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is
with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one
body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to
drink of one Spirit.
Order of Service
Small Groups of VEF
Interested in starting a small group? Need assistance finding a group?
Contact Pastor Darren Carter at 03-571-6803 ext:2224 or [email protected]
Time Meeting Place Leader Contact Number & Email
TUE 17:30
NCTU Engineering Building 3 - EC543
Maria [email protected]
THU 07:00
Men’s Breakfast Ikari Coffee 738 Guangfu Road
Jeff 0987 378 323 [email protected]
FRI 11:00
Korean Women’s Group
Victory –B1-102
Hayoung Ko
0966 266 041 [email protected]
FRI 19:30
Youth Group
Victory –8F
Linus Lu 0989-543-486
FRI 19:30
Indonesian Group
Victory –6F
Timothy William
0909335550 [email protected]
FRI 20:00
Emmanuel Group Puding 3rd Road
Bih Qui Tiang
0966-545-764 [email protected]
FRI 20:00
Barnabas CG Guanxin Area
Japie Kruger
SUN 11:00
Family Bible Study Victory—B105-106
Pastor John
SUN 11:00
Korean Group Victory - B102
Jonathan Eun
0920 729 307 [email protected]
SUN 11:00
Epic Bible Study: Jonah Victory—B104
Pastor Darren
Call To Praise / Opening O Happy Day
Call to Worship Psalm 29:1-4, 10-11
Worship in Song Holy Spirit, You Are Welcome Here
Scripture Reading Romans 12:4-8
Worship in Song Highland Worthy is the Lamb
Mighty to Save
Announcements and Greetings
Children’s Message Worship in the Word: “What is the Church” 1 Corinthians 12:12-27
Pastor John Olson
Benediction Pastor John Olson
Announcements
Children’s Sunday School will go on Winter Break starting this week January 26, and re-sume on February 9.
Epic of Eden Adult Sunday School Bible Study begins February 9 in B104. See Pastor Dar-ren or scan the QR code inside the front cover of the bulletin for more information.
Bible Study Fellowship meets each week to study the "Acts and Letters of the Apostles". Men meet on Tuesday nights and women meet on Wednesday mornings and evenings. Please talk to Jeff Case: [email protected] or Michelle Lin: [email protected].
VEF has made the budget for 2019. Thank you for your generosity in giving. Please know that your tithes and offerings go to helping the ministries of VEF. Thank you as well to “God knows my name.”
Vacation Bible School will be on August 13-15, 2020. If you are willing to be a part of the team that plans VBS please talk to Pastor John.
A pastoral search committee has been formed and has met . The search committee will meet regularly to pray and look at applicants for the head English pastor position. When the process is complete the committee will make a recommendation to the Victory Pastor/Elder Personnel Board for approval. The search committee members are Jeff Case, Linus Lu, Sam Yang, Bih Qui Tiang, Anne Fisher, Timothy Liu, Timothy William, and Japie Kruger. If you have any questions or know of someone who might be a good fit for the head pastor role please talk to one of the committee members. Please be in prayer for the pastor search process.
Cell Group Feature
This Week Volunteer Workers 9AM: Set-up and Greeters: Kristy, Japie — Worship Team: Yvonne, Naomi, Cindy, Theresa— PPT: Bachir— Sound: Tim W
Next Week: 9AM: Set-up and Greeters: Sam, Susan — Worship Team: Peter, Mone, Sam F, Yi Ching— PPT: Casper Jr.— Sound: Casper
How to pay tithes by Wire Transfer You can transfer your offerings to Victory's Postal account , the bank code is 700, follow by the account number - 0061021 0478485. Contact Pastor John or Yu-Hwa at [email protected]. Please make sure to contact one of them to make sure the money goes into the VEF account and transfer was properly made.
Last Sunday's (1/19)
• Morning Worship attendance – 94
• Afternoon Worship attendance— 41
• Sunday School attendance – 34
• Offering - $65,800
• YTD Giving - $206,454
• Remaining giving needed $3,793,546 ($77,419 weekly)
Please be sure to write your names clearly on the offering envelope.
Emmanuel Cell Group
We meet every Friday evening at 8pm. we focus on fellow-
ship and how to apply the word of God in our lives through
the four W's – Welcome, Worship, Word, and Works. We
meet every Friday at 8:00 PM.
Men’s Breakfast
Men, start your day right! Meet with other brothers for fellow-
ship over a simple breakfast as we share with each other our vic-
tories and concerns. We will spend some time in prayer together
offering to God our praise and petitions before starting out day
each Thursday. We meet at Ikari Coffee House near Mackay Hos-
pital each Thursday ay 7am till around 8:30am.
Indonesian Cell Group
The Indonesian group at VEF is made up of Indonesian Natives who are now living in Taiwan. Our group is a blend of students and profes-sionals coming together to invest in one-another, and grow in Christ. We meet every Friday Evening from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on the 6th floor of Victory. Our fellowship includes worshipping God through music, sharing prayer requests, Bible Study, and more!
Question: "What is the Church?"
https://www.gotquestions.org/what-is-the-church.html
Answer: Many people today understand the church as a building. This is not a biblical understanding of the church. The word “church” is a translation of the Greek word ekklesia, which is defined as “an assembly” or “called-out ones.” The root mean-ing of church is not that of a building, but of people. It is ironic that when you ask peo-ple what church they attend, they usually identify a building. Romans 16:5 says, “Greet the church that is in their house.” Paul refers to the church in their house—not a church building, but a body of believers.
The church is the body of Christ, of which He is the head. Ephesians 1:22–23 says, “And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.” The body of Christ is made up of all believers in Jesus Christ from the day of Pentecost (Acts 2) until Christ’s return. Biblically, we may regard the church in two ways, as the univer-sal church or as the local church.
The universal church consists of everyone, everywhere, who has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. “For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink” (1 Corinthians 12:13). This verse says that anyone who believes is part of the body of Christ and has received the Spirit of Christ as evidence. All those who have received salvation through faith in Jesus Christ comprise the universal church.
The local church is described in Galatians 1:1–2: “Paul, an apostle . . . and all the broth-ers with me, to the churches in Galatia.” Here we see that in the province of Galatia there were many churches—they had a localized ministry and were scattered through-out the province. They were local churches. A Baptist church, a Lutheran church, an E-Free church, etc., is not the church, as in the universal church; rather, it is a local church, a local body of believers. The universal church is comprised of everyone who belongs to Christ. Members of the universal church should seek fellowship and edification in a local church.
In summary, the church is not a building or a denomination. According to the Bible, the church is the body of Christ—all those who have placed their faith in Jesus Christ for salvation (John 3:16; 1 Corinthians 12:13). Local churches are gatherings of people who claim the name of Christ. Members of a local church may or may not be members of the universal church, depending on the genuineness of their faith. The local church is where believers can fully apply the “body” principles of 1 Corinthians chapter 12—encouraging, teaching, and building one another up in the knowledge and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Discussion Questions:
What is something that you are good at? Describe yourself as a “part of the body of Christ” Why did you select that part? How connected are you to the local church (aka—VEF)? Why is it important for a Christian to be connected to other believers? - How is it important for you? - How is it important for others that you are there? What is the purpose of the Church?
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