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SUMMARY:Sunday Worship Services
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin | Invite | Share \nWelcome to in-person services\nSocia
 l distancing and mask-wearing are encouraged\nStreaming on FB @FirstAfrika
 n\n\n\n\nFall-Winter 2024 \nSermon &amp\; Study Series\nChange on the Jour
 ney\n\nWe continue to investigate Yeshua’s journey to Jerusalem. Change 
 is constantly occurring. There are frequent questions\, serious opposition
 \, a few opportunities\, and several hindrances on the journey. Life is li
 ke that - questions\, opportunity\, opposition\, hindrances\, change. Chan
 ge is the primary reality in our lives. In fact\, the famed author and bel
 oved ancestor Octavia Butler says\, “change is constant…. God is chang
 e.”\n\nAs we take this journey with Yeshua\, let’s endeavor to see tha
 t change is a necessary aspect of life\; that it is life’s most enduring
  experience and is\, as a consequence\, where the deity is likely to be fo
 und. It is not simply that the deity is change. It is also that change is 
 the deity.\n\nThe thing that makes life with all of its changes manageable
  is purpose. Purpose can be the thing\, the attitude of mind and heart\, t
 hat centers us\; that stabilizes us as we take the journey with Yeshua to 
 our own Jerusalem- Freedom. For our enslaved ancestors Freedom is the only
  heaven they desired.\n\nYeshua possessed a purpose or mission as he trave
 led. His destination was sure. His purpose as he traveled was to proclaim 
 the good news (gospel) of the Kingdom of Yahweh which was Freedom for him 
 and the masses of poor and oppressed Palestinian Jews suffering the tyrann
 y of Roman domination. His mission to proclaim the message of the deity’
 s coming kingdom was the stabilizing force in both his life and in the liv
 es of the community of students (disciples).\n\nPossessing purpose is stab
 ilizing in the midst of the ever-present context of change. But how does o
 ne know one’s purpose? Look at the students of Yeshua for just one possi
 ble answer to the question. Notice that none of the students of Yeshua wer
 e called or sent by him to change the whole world all by themselves. Nor w
 ere any of them required to go to school and get degrees in order to becom
 e experts in any particular field of knowledge or particular vocational sk
 ill. They were all told to share what they already knew about the deity wi
 th others\, to live lives consistent with their mission to tell what they 
 already knew\,  and to boldly lean on and trust the deity.They were calle
 d and sent to “transform consciousness” from a focus on the emperor\, 
 to a focus on deity who truly possessed all power.\n\nNo one needs to go i
 n search of purpose. Purpose is at hand or\, to say it another way\, purpo
 se is already in your hands. Rather than focusing on the ever-present\, of
 ten maddening change all around us\, let us focus on living our purpose bo
 ldly and without apology. This is the model Yeshua provides in the travel 
 narrative.\n\nPastor Lomax\n\n\nSunday\, December 1\nBiblical Text: Luke 1
 3:10-17\n\n\n\nSunday\, December 8\n31st Anniversary Celebration\nPreacher
 : Pastors Hodari Williams and Mark Ogunwale Lomax\nBiblical Text: Psalm 13
 3\n\n\n\nSunday\, December 15\nBiblical Text: Luke 3:7-18\n\n\n\nSunday\, 
 December 22\nBiblical Text: Luke 1:39-45 (46-55)\n\n\n\n Sunday\, Decembe
 r 29\nBiblical Text: Luke 2:41-42\n
CATEGORIES:worship
LOCATION:First Afrikan Church\, 5197 Salem Road\, Stonecrest\, GA\, 30083\,
  United States
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