Everyone Welcome
Adult and children’s Sabbath Schools meet at 9:30 a.m. There is an adult class in the sanctuary and all the children’s classes will meet downstairs. Everyone is welcome.
Everyone is welcome to attend the worship hour at 10:45 a.m.
We broadcast Church live on youtube.com. Church will start at 10:45 AM. Go to youtube.com and search for “greeley sda”. Click on the circle with the church picture. You may need to choose the “Live” tab.
OR click on the “Sermons” link in the menu selections above to access the services. (On a phone or tablet the menu selections will be in a button that looks like three bars at the top of the screen.) Select “Live” in the youtube site tabs.
Weekly Church Meetings
Wednesday – 1:30 p.m. Midweek study
Sabbath 4:00 – p.m. End Time Events with Shawn Korgan
Food for Thought
Answered Questions – “What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?” Matthew 16:26 NIV
When I was 10 years old the pastor had a baptismal class at our church school. At the end of the class he had a question for us: Did we want to follow Jesus and be baptized? Of course, we did! About 10 years later, Jerry and I were walking in a park in Topeka, Kansas. We stopped by a wishing well and Jerry said he had a special wish and a question: Would I marry him? And, obviously, I said “ Yes!”
I remember reading once that the best way to begin a conversation with someone is not with a statement, but with a question. Jesus frequently began a conversation that way. The first recorded question in the Bible was asked by the Lord God to Adam and Eve after they had eaten the forbidden fruit. “Where are you?” (Gen. 3:9) Throughout His ministry Jesus continued to use questions: “What saith the Scripture?” “How readest thou?” He walked up to a man lying by the Pool of Bethesda, and He asked a rather strange question: Do you want to get well? (John 5:6) The man said he had no one to help him into the pool where he believed he would be healed. Jesus then told him to get up and walk – which he did!
One day Jesus sat down by a well. He was tired, hungry, and very thirsty. Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw some water so Jesus had a question for her: “Will you give me a drink?” Startled, she then had questions for Jesus: “How can you ask me for a drink?” “Where can you get this living water?” Jesus continued listening and responding to her questions, finally telling her He was the Messiah she knew was coming. (John 4:1-26)
Paul and Silas had been beaten and thrown into prison for supposedly causing an uproar in the city. During the night “Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.” (Acts16:25) Suddenly there was an earthquake causing the prison doors to fly open. Paul and Silas could have escaped, but when the jailer realized all the prisoners were still there, he asked an important question: “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” (Acts 16:39) (Clifford Goldstein in his article in the August Signs of the Times magazine says this is “the greatest question any person can ask.”) This was a question with a simple answer: Believe and trust in Jesus.
Some questions are easily answered. Some seem to have no immediate answers. For those questions someday soon Jesus will say, “Let’s go home. We have an eternity together and I’ll answer all your questions.”
Sharon Oster