A PLACE TO BELONG
The Church at the Butte is A Place to Belong. Whether you are a community leader, business owner, retired senior, single adult, or a young family you can find A Place to Belong with us.
Together, we are making a difference in our community through The Shepherd’s Closet, Meals on Wheels, All-Stars for children, WIRED for youth and Legacy for seniors. We also help support church planters throughout the United States, thousands of missionaries in approximately 200 countries.
Several of our members make trips to our mission church in Mexico to support them and strengthen their service. We participate with Franklin Graham’s Operation Christmas Child. This ministry distributes gift-filled shoe boxes to children throughout the world, demonstrating that people matter to God.
Drop in on a Sunday morning just after nine o’clock for Coffee and Conversation. Then stay for Sunday Morning Worship at ten o’clock. Pick up some brochures and make a couple of new friends. You may discover A Place to Belong sooner than you think.
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516 Butte Blvd. PO Box 1346 | Elephant Butte, NM 87935
575-744-4487
catb@valornet.com
Pastor Houston Cano – houstoncano@yahoo.com
Senior Adults/Missions Pastor: Bruce Morrison – bruce@churchatthebutte.com
Youth Pastor: Zebadiah Rose – zeb.rose@churchatthebutte.com
Meals On Wheels – Rae Edenfofer
Shepherd’s Closet – Tami Smith
Sermon 10/18/2020
Sunday Sermon 10/18/2020
I am Reconciled
Reconciled: to make friends again
Colossians 1:21-22 (NLT)
We were far away
We were enemies
We were separated from God
Why We Needed to be Reconciled: Ephesians 2:11-12 (ESV)
Gentiles in the Flesh
Uncircumcised – Colossians 2:11 (CSB)
Separated from Jesus
Alienated from the Commonwealth of Israel
Strangers to the Covenant of Promise – 2 Corinthians 7:1 (NIV)
Having No Hope – Romans 5:5 (ESV)
Without God in the World
What Reconciliation Does: Ephesians 2:13-14, 19 (ESV)
Before Jesus We Who Were Far Off Have Been Brought Nearby Jesus’ Blood
By His blood we have access to the Father
By His blood we have fellowship with each other and cleaning from sin
1 John 1:7 (ESV)
Before Jesus were are war with God and new we have peace with God
Romans 5:1 (ESV)
Before Jesus we were in disunity and now we have unity
1 Peter 3:8 (ESV)
Before Jesus were strangers and aliens and now we are fellow citizens and members of God’s family
What We Have Been Reconciled To – Ephesians 2:15-18, 20-22
Reconciled to God
Reconciled to Peace
Acts 4:11
Reconciled to the Filling of the Holy Spirit
1 Corinthians 3:16 (ESV)
God has provided reconciliation for us to Himself through the cross
Our part is to completely surrender the authority to direct our lives over to Jesus
In reconciling us He has made us the
Body of Christ
Family of God
Temple of the Holy Spirit
Question: Has God reconciled you?
