Nelsonville Assembly

In this middle week of our series, we hear God telling His people that to be spiritually healthy, like being physically healthy, requires commitment. Looking to Ephesians 4:1-3, Colossians 3:12-13, Romans 15:5-6, and II Corinthians 13:11, we find both the Gospel grounding and the commands for life application that God's people need to know and pursue each day.

Our relationships are often tied to what we do. Sharing things in common with people around us becomes the ground for building relationships. For Christians, this is true as well. The central focus of our new and transformed lives personally leads to the foundational and unifying act of Worshiping God With One Another. When we obey the Lord in doing this with a sincere heart, He works to bind us together and empowers us to live out His commands for our interactions with one another as well.

59 times in the New Testament, Christians are given specific commands regarding how we are to relate to "One Another." In this new series, we begin to explore what God says about our relationships and how being a Christian impacts how we interact with others. Here in Week 1, Pastor Isaiah talks about what it means to truly Know One Another and how that impacts everything beginning with how we even greet one another!

In our final week of this series, the people of Israel reach Mt. Sinai and hear God call them to remembrance of His actions, obedience to His Word, and knowledge of His special love and care for them. These same truths are spoken to us today and Pastor Isaiah calls us to see and respond to God as He is - glorious, powerful, and incredibly merciful!

On this Family Sunday at Nelsonville Assembly, the kids join us to look at an often overlooked section of Exodus 18. Pastor Isaiah explains how the actions of Moses in his reunion with Jethro are a model for all of God's people. No matter if we are young or old, all Christians are called to be Sharing the Story... not just the story of how God saved Israel from slavery to Egypt, but the greater story of how God saves His people from slavery to sin still today!

Immediately following the deliverance at the Red Sea, the people of Israel are led into days of journeying through the wilderness region east of Egypt. In these days the roots of bitterness, grumbling, and quarreling are quickly revealed as the people so quickly forget their God and question "Is God really with us?" Pastor Isaiah brings out the connection to our own lives and how often this same doubt exposes these same sins in us, all these years later as we walk through our wilderness journeys

From Exodus 14, there are two powerful and seemingly paradoxical commands are given to God's people in every age. Pastor Isaiah explains that from the ancient Israelites to the modern Christian, it is imperative that God's people both "Stand Firm" upon the Word of God and also "Go Forward" in faith and obedience to what God says. At the end of this week, we again celebrate new members joining our covenant community here at Nelsonville Assembly!

As the people of Israel finally see the fulfillment of God's promise to deliver them from Egypt, they are sent out on the very day of the tenth plague. As this massive group of people leave Egypt and follow God's personal leading, they reach a point of crisis. Encamped by the Red Sea with the armies of Egypt approaching the question they must answer is the same one we must answer today - will we live in faith or fear?

To properly worship God requires that people truly know Him. To help remind and teach His people of who He is, what He says, and what He has done - God has established certain practices for His people to participate in throughout the ages. In this sermon, Pastor Isaiah brings out the connection and meaning of the Passover and the Lord's Supper that we practice in the church today after we celebrate a new member joining our church family here in Nelsonville!

We were delighted to have Dr. Mark & Lynda Hausfeld join us again in our church. As passionate Christ-followers, their work in reaching Muslim people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ is not only effective but also inspiring and motivating. Dr. Hausfeld shares with us about a ministry he is now leading called PAK7 and then preaches from Acts 4 about the central commitment of the Christian life to proclaim the name of Jesus Christ no matter the opposition this world may put forward.