The grace of God is for us now and forever! Salvation is a process that we should work on all our lives. The reality of Jesus' second coming will be stressed in this sermon and the desire for God's children to live in that expectation.

Titus 1:15:16

Luke 7:36-50

Paul left Titus in Crete to strengthen churches and teach sound doctrine. A discussion of church polity is in order here with an emphasis on the baptistic ideal of priesthood of believers and everyone being involved in ministry. I will challenge us for a more local strategy for missions...such as the possibility of Trinity taking "ownership" of our area by helping smaller and perhaps struggling churches be more effective in their ministries. Not take over, but help. VBS's, youth work, overall training, that sort of thing.

This sermon will be an interplay between Gal. 6:1 (restore a brother who has fallen in grace and love) and Gal. 6:4 (but each person should examine his own work). Where is the balance between accountability and responsibility? Our society has gone off the deep end of NOT being accountable. We will explore that.

The idea here will be that the fruit of the Spirit is the framework, the skeleton if you will, for the things we do. We will keep the law and statutes but we do them from a context of love, joy, peace, patience...against these things there is no law.

Galatians 5:16-18

Galatians 3:28

Galatians 3:2-3