Sunday Oct. 24, 2021

Welcome to Missio Church:

Our Mission is to Love God, Love People & Awaken a Movement

Welcome:

  • Bathrooms are in the entrance room

  • Missio Communities have begun: If you want to be a part of one let Jared know after worship

  • To give to Missio visit www.missiochurchseattle.org/giving

  • If you would like prayer for any reason, get in touch with Jared at Jared@missiochurchseattle.org

  • Kids Space will be in the entrance room this morning

Music:

Set a Fire

No Place I’d Rather be

No Place I’d Rather be

No Place I’d Rather be

Than here in your arms, here in your arms

So Set a fire down in my soul

That I can’t contain that I can’t control

I want more of you God

I want more of you God

Praying in Color

  • Tara will be leading us in a time of Praying in Color as a part of our worship of Visio Divina.

  • Colored Pencils, Water Color, Water Color paper, and more are provided for you.

Kids:

  • Kids will have a separate class in the entrance room with Jade & Sydney

  • Go ahead and take your kids back after our time of Praying in Color

Teaching & Communion:

  • We will have a time of teaching with our time of communion

  • Feel free to take the bread and juice and take while we discuss 1 John together.

1 John

  • John was the author of 1 John. Same John who wrote the Gospel of John. He wrote the letter to the “believers” assuming that multiple locations and churches would be reading the letter and then passing it on to the next place and people.

  • Gnosticism was a growing problem in the first century that turned into a full blown issue in the 2nd and 3rd Century. Gnosticism’s basic premise was that the physical world was evil, i.e. our physical bodies were completely evil, and only the spiritual realm was good. Therefore, the goal of this life is to get, as quickly as possible, to the spiritual. To dismantle the evil physical bodies for the good spiritual ones. They believed that to achieve this shedding of the evil physical realm was done through the attaining of “special knowledge” that was outside the work and knowledge of Jesus. Galatians directly addresses this desire for special knowledge by saying that Jesus IS the ultimate knowledge of salvation and redemption. John addresses more directly the notion that the physical world was evil by drawing attention to the fact that Jesus himself came in the flesh. And we are then to walk as Jesus did.

  • Love is the ultimate goal of 1 John. Love that binds, protects, serves, heals, and so much more.

Jared King