Announcements

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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!

Child Dedication 5/17 - In May, we will have our Child Dedication, where the church supports parents in guiding their children to know God's wisdom and love. If you’re interested or would like more information, please reach out to Pastor Scott.

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Wrestling With God

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

What makes something unfair?

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 2:11-13

11 When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. 12 When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads. 13 Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.

Job 3:1-14

1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 He said:

3 “May the day of my birth perish,
   and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’
4 That day—may it turn to darkness;
   may God above not care about it;
   may no light shine on it.

Job 3:20-22

20 “Why is light given to those in misery,
    and life to the bitter of soul,
21 to those who long for death that does not come,
  who search for it more than for hidden treasure,
22 who are filled with gladness
   and rejoice when they reach the grave?

Life comes with suffering that we can't understand. It's one of our human journeys to want to know why.

Not all suffering is our fault. But we often blame ourselves.

Our pleas before God remind us of our need for an Advocate.

Job 9:32-35
32 “He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him,
   that we might confront each other in court.
33 If only there were someone to mediate between us,
   someone to bring us together,
34 someone to remove God’s rod from me,
   so that his terror would frighten me no more.
35 Then I would speak up without fear of him,
   but as it now stands with me, I cannot.

Job 14:1-5

1 “Mortals, born of woman,
    are of few days and full of trouble.
2 They spring up like flowers and wither away;
   like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.
3 Do you fix your eye on them?
   Will you bring them[a] before you for judgment?
4 Who can bring what is pure from the impure?
   No one!
5 A person’s days are determined;
   you have decreed the number of his months
   and have set limits he cannot exceed.

God wants us to stop trying to be judge of our own lives. And let Him.

Job's lessons in his lament:

• He realizes that he is mortal and God is divine.
• He recognizes that God is the one with the power to judge and forgive.
• He can look to God as the only one who can help him.

• God's asking us to come to Him.
• God's asking us to trust Him.
• God's asking us to live the life He's given us.

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Community Prayer

Earth Day

• That we would Appreciate God’s creation, of which we are a part of, and of which He calls good.
• As those charged with being caretakers of God’s creation, that we as humanity would collectively and individually make decisions that reflect God’s heart as Creator.
• For God’s mercy for those suffering from the results of human effects on the earth.

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