The Bridge Church - Reno

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Announcements

Guest Speaker Gilbert Foster
Sunday, October 8th @ 10:00a
The Bridge Church Reno
Gilbert Foster (Executive Director for Growing Healthy Churches and When I Grow Up) will be speaking on Sunday morning October 8th at church. Gilbert is a dynamic and powerful speaker and you will not want to miss him as he joins us for our “oikos” series.

CARS Clinic
Saturday, October 14th @ 9:00a
The Bridge Church Reno
If you are a single mother or older person and in need of regular maintenance or small minor repairs on your vehicle; please sign up for our CARS clinic. On Oct 14th at 9am the CARS team will be at the church helping with those things. Please sign up at thebridgereno.com/cars Also if you have any experience doing small repairs of maintenance on cars we would love the help.

Church Campus Work Day
Saturday, October 14th @ 8:00-11:00a
There are a number of small work projects that we need help with around the church campus. We would love it if you could lend a hand to keep the property looking good. If you can help, please join us Saturday morning October 14th at 8am for a couple of hours and we will get these things taken care of. Breakfast will be provided.

Starting Point Class - MOVED
Sunday, October 22nd @ 11:15a
The Bridge Church Reno
If you are new to The Bridge Church this is a great place to learn all about our mission and vision and why we believe God has placed us here in this neighborhood. You will learn all about how we are reaching our community and world, you will also have the opportunity to become a member. Please use the connection card on the website or app to sign up and let us know you will be joining us.

Message Notes

Think Grace - God is a Gracious God

October 1, 2023

The Story of God’s Amazing Grace

We are marked by God. The RULER

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:26-27

One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong, and that you, O Lord, are loving…

Psalm 62:11-12a

We are marred by sin. The REBELLION

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Genesis 3:6-7

We do two things:

We hide.
We blame.

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.

Ephesians 2:1–3

We can be re-made through Christ. The RESCUE

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

Ephesians 2:4–5

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 5:21

"There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us."

- Puritan Richard Sibbes

"Before You Share Your Faith"

- John Stott pg. 17

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:23

The RESPONSE
Admit I am a sinner and turn from it
Believe Jesus died and rose again for me. Say YES to Jesus!
Choose to follow Him-make Him my treasure my Lord and Savior

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