Sunday Service: Pastoral Epistles - 2Timothy 1:13-18

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.

At 10.30 we'll start our service with our series on the Pastoral Epistles. With Matteo we'll engage with 2 Timothy 1:13-18 - Guard the Good Deposit! 

To guard the Good Deposit of the Gospel is both to defend it and to share it, and we must not think that we have to do this in our own strength, but only by the Holy Spirit dwelling within us, because, as John Stott wrote: "in entrusting the deposit to our hands, God has not taken his own hands off it. He is himself its final guardian, and he will preserve the truth which he has committed to the church"!

We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.

2023 EMF Regional Conference: Bridging the Gap

Tomorrow Stefano will join the 2023 EMF Regional Conference, at WelwynEvangelical Church, UK.

The theme of the conference is Bridging the Gap: Connecting with people for the Gospel. The aim is to address the need to connect with our communities, in order to be able to share the Gospel with them – something that many Christians (and churches) find increasingly difficult, especially as the society in which we live gets farther and farther away from any kind of Christian influence. How can we connect with non-Christians without compromising our commitment to faithful Christian discipleship?

There’ll be a video input from Glen Scrivener, director of the SpeakLife ministry, who will talk about the Challenge of Bridging the Gap.

Then José Moreno Berrocal will speak about connecting with people in Spain, and Stefano about connecting with people in Italy.

At the end there’ll be a panel discussion led by EMF’s Field DirectorAndrew Birch where we’ll engage with what can we learn from Jesus himself and what are the biblical principles which can guide our actions in connecting with people for the Gospel!

 

Watch an excerpt from the video:

“We go to the little, the least, the last, and the lost.” Glen Scrivener 

IDOP 2023 - International Days of Prayer for the Persecuted Church

Tomorrow afternoon we'll join the IDOP 2023 - International Days of Prayer for the Persecuted Church promoted the WEA - World Evangelical Alliance.

Together with the churches from the Bologna area, we'll intercede for Israel and Gaza, for Qatar, for China and Myanmar and other countries where to follow Jesus costs more!

“If one member suffers, we all suffer together; if one member is honoured, all rejoice together.” 1 Corinthians 12:26

Sunday Service: Pastoral Epistles - 2Timothy 1:6-12

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.

At 10.30 we'll start our service with our series on the Pastoral Epistles. With Stefano we'll engage with 2 Timothy 1:1-5- Fan into flame the gift of God, because you know whom you have believed! 

Nowhere does Paul tell us that our faith grows in proportion to our efforts, but he does tell us that the reason he is not ashamed of Christ or the Gospel of Christ, is because he knows in whom he has believed, so his, and our faith, grows in proportion to our knowledge of Christ! "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."." Romans 1:16-17

We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.

 

Theology for Breakfast

Tomorrow we'll continue
our series of meetings:  
Theology for Breakfast! 
Following Luther's Table Talks example, we'll meet from 9 to 11am @ Central Café in Mezzolara where, while enjoying a breakfast with capuccino & croissants, we'll engage with God's Word discovering the beauty of theology in our everyday life!

Together we'll interact with the module: Gospel Relationships. We'll start Unit 7: "Parenting".

 

Relationships are fundamental to our identity, yet they are fraught with difficulty, fear, conflict and uncertainty. Coming to Christ puts us automatically into relationship with a community of his people. The gospel enables relationships to fulfil their purpose and design. The gospel transforms all our relationships. It resolves conflict, and gives new purpose to friendships, parenting and marriages. Together we'll discover how we can be freed to serve and love others with gospel intentionality. 

Sunday Service: Pastoral Epistles - 2Timothy 1:1-5

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.

At 10.30 we'll start our service with our series on the Pastoral Epistles. With Stefano we'll engage with 2 Timothy 1:1-5- A sincere faith in the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus! 

Paul shows us the greatness of God's love that fulfils the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus, reminding us that in Christ, God has only children and not grandchildren, yet our personal salvation by grace, takes place in a context of God's people, we are saved into God's family and Jesus' missional church! "...Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord." 2 Timothy 1:2

We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.

Dinner & Prayer - Mezzolara Home Family Group

Tomorrow evening we'll have our Home Family Group in Mezzolara, hosted by the Cutuli's.

We'll dine together sharing the many good foods brought by everyone and we'll celebrate the Lord's Supper, with a missionale family prayer time involving little ones and grown ups together.

Sunday Service: Visiting Preacher - Marco Martella

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.

At 10.30 we'll start our service and Marco Martella, Pastor of the Acts29 church plant Nuova Vita DownTown in Bologna, will preach on "This is what it means to be a Gospel-centred church" from Acts 2:37-47. 

 

A Gospel-centred church, is a church which manifests the beauty and glory of the Kingdom of God, which proclaims the Good News of the Gospel in words and deeds, and which brings the joy of Christ into the lives of many!

 

During the service we'll celebrate the Lord's Supper and we'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.

Dinner & Prayer - Budrio Home Family Group

Tomorrow evening we'll have our Home Family Group in Budrio, hosted by the Savino's.

We'll dine together sharing the many good foods brought by everyone and we'll celebrate the Lord's Supper, with a missionale family prayer time involving little ones and grown ups together.

Reformation Sunday & Children Dedication Service

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.

At 10.30 we'll start our service celebrating the Reformation Sunday. With Nino we'll engage with Ephesians 2:1-9 - The 5 Solas of Reformation! 

On 31 October 1517, Luther nailed the 95 Theses in Wittenberg. This is considered the moment when the Reformation took on a public and popular profile. Reformation Sunday is then an occasion to recall the rediscovery of the Gospel, centred on the recognition of the authority of Scripture, the centrality of Jesus Christ, the gratuitousness of salvation, and the requirement that all life be lived for the glory of God.

 

We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.

 

We'll also celebrate the Dedication of Jacob, Abigail and Anna.

"Things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments" Psalm 78:3-7

App1Timothy - Mid-Week Bible Study

 

Tomorrow evening we'll have our App1Timothy (Applying the 1st Pastoral Letter of Paul to Timothy), our series of Mid-Week Bible Studies in which we'll keep interacting with what we're learning through the preaching in our Sunday services.  

 

 

We'll meet at the Bookshop-Café La Terza Stanza, in Budrio. Stefano will lead this time where we'll engage with 1 Timothy 6:6-21.

Sunday Service: Pastoral Epistles - 1Timothy 6:17-21

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.

At 10.30 we'll start our service with our series on the Pastoral Epistles. With Stefano we'll engage with 1 Timothy 6:17-21- The well-founded treasure and the good deposit! 

Paul commands us that we store up a well-founded treasure in eternity, to grasp the true Gospel life, to which we have been called by Jesus' grace, and to guard the good deposit of the Gospel by sharing it with all in the missional generosity of Christ! 

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:19-21

We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.

Sunday Service: Pastoral Epistles - 1Timothy 6:11-16

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.

At 10.30 we'll start our service with our series on the Pastoral Epistles. With Stefano we'll engage with 1 Timothy 6:11-16 - Honoring God by fulfilling his calling! 

Paul affirms that the man of God is called to take hold of the eternal life, to which he has already been called; he is called to grasp, what God has already given him; to be, what he already is in Christ; to live the new life of missional sanctification, which the Spirit is already working in him! "Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen." Jude 24-25

We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.