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URL:https://firstafrikanchurch.org/events/wednesday-bible-study-summer-fal
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SUMMARY:Wednesday Bible Study - Summer & Fall 2025
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 75\; Passcode: 346573\n\n\n\n\nFaith in Action: From Creation to Restorati
 on\nThe purpose of this sermon and study series is to assure us that faith
  in the Creator is one of the greatest assets believers possess. Faith\, i
 n a spiritual context\, means to rely upon\, to trust\, to believe. It is 
 the mental\, moral\, and spiritual conviction that the Creator stands with
  us during good and bad times. It is the deeply rooted knowledge that the 
 Creator has the power to keep\, sustain\, and provide for us\, no matter t
 he circumstance.\n\nFaith does not allow us to abandon our responsibility\
 , however. It does not permit us to think or behave in ways that relieve u
 s of active participation in resolving whatever confronts us. We must enga
 ge and work as if all the responsibility for what we are experiencing belo
 ngs to us while simultaneously believing that the Creator is both able and
  willing to deliver\, provide\, or relieve us of the burden(s)/obligation(
 s) we are bearing.\n\nFaith and action are two sides of the same coin (Jam
 es 2:26). Our ancestors both believed in the Creator and did the work nece
 ssary to improve their individual and collective circumstances. Harriet Tu
 bman believed and led enslaved Africans to freedom. Ida B. Wells believed 
 and wrote powerful articles recounting the injustices visited upon oppress
 ed Black people in the segregated South. Mary McLeod Bethune believed and 
 built an institution to educate our people. Faith and action go together. 
 It is never enough to simply believe. Nor is it ever enough to simply act.
  We must do both.\n\nFinally\, faith requires us to trust\, to rely upon a
 nd to believe in our own capacities to produce the outcomes we envision. T
 he Creator is as much in us as around and over and behind us. Remember tha
 t NTU\, the life-giving\, life-sustaining\, life-renewing energy or force 
 that the Bantu peoples of South\, Central and Eastern Africa named\, is sy
 nonymous with the idea of Spirit that is so pervasive in Christian theolog
 y. We\, therefore\, are as powerful and as capable as we believe we are. W
 e are never\, ever under any circumstance disconnected from the Divine Sou
 rce. We have power!!!\n\nPastor Lomax\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 1\nBiblic
 al Text:  Revelation 12:10-12\nTheme: “The Faith of the Martyrs”\n\n\
 n\nWednesday\, October 8\nBiblical Text: Revelation 21:1-5\nTheme: “The 
 Faith to Finish”
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