This weekend - 10.011 - at Bethel: "Facing Trials With 'Helpers' Who Don't Help"

Published: Sat, 10/10/20

In-person and Online Worship

10.11.20

Hi ,

Tomorrow we will come together and worship face-to-face once again. We will also live-stream the service for those who don't feel comfortable yet joining us in person.

The service -- and live stream -- will begin at 9:30am.

We have measures in place to keep people as safe as possible during this time: for more about our policies and procedures: click here to access our Worship Reopening Proposal. You can also find an outline of our updated Fall plans for church programs here.

Links You'll Need (for worshiping at home):

To access the live-stream video of the service, go to the home page of the Bethel Princeton YouTube Channel. The video will appear there on Sunday, starting at 9:30am:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCde6BmTlzFC4VDGVNL7TGNQ

Use the link below to download the sermon notes page:

http://www.bethelprinceton.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Full-Page-Sermon-Notes-Suffering2-Job2.pdf

Use the link below to do online giving:

https://crc.etadvance.com/churches/bethel-church-princeton/donate

Forward this link to friends and family so they can get on our mailing list and get links for the online worship:

https://aw6456b.aweberpages.com/p/4132be6d-86bc-4241-a208-51d71a818a83

Tomorrow's Message

The sermon tomorrow continue the teaching focus for the month of October: When Things Fall Apart: Coming to terms with suffering and struggle while maintaining faith in a good and powerful God. As I'm sure you'll agree, during these challenging and divided times, we need to hear this kind of teaching.

Tomorrow's message will focus on a large section of the book of Job: chapters 2-31. These verses relay a series of dialogs between Job and three of his friends, who come to support him. As can sometimes happen, the friends who are there to support him try to diagnose Job's problems and offer advice ... and are far from the mark. What's important to keep in mind about these dialogs, however, is that much truth is shared .... it's just shared in the wrong context and misapplied. As we reflect on how this happens, there's much we can learn about suffering in our own lives.

ALSO NOTE: we will take communion as part of our service tomorrow as well.

I hope you can join us!

- Pastor Mark

Tomorrow we will have a Q and A session after the service. These Q and A sessions will happen shortly after the service ends (10 minutes or so). They will be live-streamed as a separate live-stream video.

If you are unable to be part of the in-person Q and A, you will still be able to participate. Simply send your question as a text message to 651-246-6525.

One of the elders will be on stage with me and will read these questions or comments, which we'll be responding to, as well as those brought up in the in-person group.