Special Offering Sunday 14 th and 21 st June 2015 1.For Midhurst – first year funding 2.To help fund a new full time elder 3.A project that cares for.

Special OfferingSunday 14th and 21st June 2015

1. For Midhurst – first year funding

2. To help fund a new full time elder

3. A project that cares for children with severe mental and physical disabilities at Abundant Life Church, Belgaum, India





A gift to Grace Church is always worth giving because …

… we use the money well

… giving is an investment in God’s kingdom

… giving is worship to Jesus

Steve PetchSunday 14th June 2015

PrivilegePart 3: Jesus at the centre

Ezra 3 v 1-6

What is at the centre of your life?

Who is at the centre of your life?

What is in comes out:

we become like what we worship

What was the altar for?

The Altar of Incense


The Altar of Burnt Offerings


The altar enabled the people of God to come into his presence and know him and

worship him

• The altar is built according to God’s design

• Worldly influences reshape the altar

• Idols begin to share space with the altar

• God disciplines his people to purify his altar

What happened to the first altar?

Is Jesus at the centre of your life?

• There was the priest

• There was the rightful King

• There was the altar

• There was the sacrifice

• There was the blood

This is really all about Jesus …

Jesus alone enables us to come into God’s presence and to know and worship him





A gift to Grace Church is always worth giving because …

… we use the money well

… giving is an investment in God’s kingdom

… giving is worship to Jesus

Steve PetchSunday 14th June 2015

PrivilegePart 3: Jesus at the centre

Ezra 3 v 1-6

Special Offering Sunday 14 th and 21 st June 2015 1.For Midhurst – first year funding 2.To help fund a new full time elder 3.A project that cares for.

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