Announcements

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Member Meeting (FEB 09) - Today, right after service on Sunday, Feb. 9th. We encourage everyone to take part in this discussion as each voice is valuable and makes an impact. 

Adulting Class (FEB 10) - 7pm at Doyle Recreation Center. These class are all about tackling the practical challenges of adulthood while building community and growing together. The next one will be on: Filing Taxes. If you or someone you know might be interested, come join us! See schedule here: https://www.meetup.com/adultingutc/

Christian Basics (FEB 16) - Meeting every other Sunday, 12:45pm at Diana's. Next meeting's topics are: Q44: What is baptism? & Q45: Is baptism with water the washing away of sin itself? Schedule and faq is here: http://ethnos.us/christian-basics-discussion-group/

Amor Mission Trip 2025: Ethnos is preparing for our next mission trip with Amor! Whether you're interested in going, helping with fundraising, or supporting in other ways, Pastor Mariah wants to hear from you! Please take a couple minutes to click on the link below to fill out the questionnaire. Your questionnaire will help us tremendously! Thank you! https://forms.gle/quN8cUMasVzovxjE8

Ethnos Parents - New webpage to reduce paper waste! We're thrilled to introduce our Weekly Parent Cue webpage, where you can find resources to support your child's spiritual growth. This webpage is accessible with the passcode EthnosKids92122. It features weekly devotionals and guides that connect to what your kid/s learned in Sunday class! Check it out.

Community Groups (CG) - Community Groups are our way of connecting with one another throughout the week. Our hope is to foster friendships where we can be seen and heard in our authentic selves, and experience God's goodness with one another. The current CG schedule is listed below. If you're interested in checking one out, let us know by sending an email to 

Online Group - 7:30pm Mondays @ Zoom

UTC Group - 7pm Tuesdays @ Villa Vicenza

Mira Mesa/Scripps Ranch Group - 7pm Wednesdays @ John's

Family Group - 4pm Saturdays (monthly) @ Nobel Lucera

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NEW LIFE

A Vision Series

How do you decide when there's disagreement?

Roman Household Codes

"Of household management we have seen that there are three parts—one is the rule of a master over slaves… another of a father, and the third of a husband. A husband and father rulesover wife and children, both free, but the rule differs, the rule over his children being a royal, over his wife a constitutional rule. For although there may be exceptions to the order of nature, the male is by nature fitter for command than the female, just as the older and full-grown is superior to the younger and more immature…" - Aristotle in Politics

Ephesians 5:1-2
1 Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children 2 and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5:21-33
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Agape love humbly serves.

"Submit" is not submissive.

Pride in relationships leads to:

• Escalation
• Invalidation
• Negative Interpretations
• Withdrawal and Avoidance

Ideally in relationships, agape love is mutual.

Two Principles for Good Communication

• Making it clear
• Making it safe

Agape love is committed.

"hesed" love is a covenantal love that goes beyond duty to include mercy, kindness, loyalty, and grace.

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Community Prayer

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