Announcements

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Membership Class TODAY 4/12 - If you’ve been a regular at Ethnos, we invite you to consider becoming a church member. We have a membership class scheduled for Sunday, April 12th, right after service during lunch. This single session will cover all the essential information you need to know. To sign up, please email or reach out to Pastor Scott directly.

Servant Team Retreat 4/25 - If you're part of a ministry team here at Ethnos, we invite you to attend our Servant Team Retreat on Saturday, April 25th from 8am-12pm. It's a time for leaders and volunteers to get together for renewal, prayer, and rest with Jesus. Reach out to a staff member or your ministry team leader for further details. 

Newcomer Lunch 4/26 - Join us for our Newcomer Lunch on April 26th, 12pm right after service. This free lunch is an opportunity for anyone newer to Ethnos to learn more about who we and what we’re all about. Reply to this email if you’re interested in attending!

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Wrestling With God

Justice, Suffering, & Growing In Faith: The Book Of Job

Why is it difficult to accept life's struggles?

Outline of Job:

• Ch. 1-2 Prologue
• Ch. 3-37 Dialogues
• Ch. 38-41 God’s Response
• Ch. 42 Epilogue

Apr 12th - Will We Still Worship?

Apr 19th - Is God Just?

Apr 26th - Is There Justice In This World?

May 3rd - How Do We Understand Suffering?

May 10th - How Do We Grow From Suffering?

Job 1:1-12

1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2 He had seven sons and three daughters, 3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.
4 His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.
6 One day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them. 7 The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”
8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”
9 “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. 10 “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11 But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
12 The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.”

Job 1:20-22

20 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21 and said:“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,    and naked I will depart.The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;    may the name of the Lord be praised.”22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.

Will we worship God, even when life gets hard?

Job 2:9-10

9 His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!”
10 He replied, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”
In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

Job 42:1-6
1 Then Job replied to the Lord:
2 “I know that you can do all things;
    no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
    Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
    things too wonderful for me to know.
4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
    I will question you,
    and you shall answer me.’
5 My ears had heard of you
    but now my eyes have seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself
    and repent in dust and ashes.”

Faith is grown in struggle, not strength.

The result of wrestling with God is not coming to conclusions, but accepting we don't have all the answers. This is faith.

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Community Prayer

Relationships In The Neighborhood 

• For friendships to grow from connections made in the neighborhood
• For opportunities for Ethnos to serve needs in University City and San Diego, including partnerships with other organizations
• For our church presence to be known as a light in the community

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