Teleos that we may present everyone complete in Christ

Notes from 1/17 – Romans 1:1Posted by reagan.rose on January 25th, 2012

A week and a day late, but I suppose that’s better than never. Here’s some notes from last week.

Some Changes and a Brief Bio

Kim and myself (Reagan) will be leading Teleos until summer. We just got married in September and we love the Lord and college students! Technically Kim is a college student so I guess that means I love college students even more.

We would love to meet up with all of you individually throughout the semester, maybe to grab a bite to eat or a cup of coffee. And if you ever just want to talk, let us know!

Romans 1:1

We talked about how Romans has a long history of changing hearts. From Augustine, to Martin Luther, to John Wesley, God used the powerful inspired words of Paul to turn sinners to Him.

Romans answers all of the big questions that we ask. Here’s just a few:

What is the good news of God? Is Jesus really God? What proves He is God? Why did He come? What is a saint? What is God like? How can God send people to hell? What will happen to people who have never heard the gospel? Why do men reject God and Christ? Why are there false religions and idols? What is man’s biggest sin? Why is there sex perversion, hate, crime and those other things and why are they so rampant? What is the standard by which God condemns people? How can a person who has never heard be held responsible?

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Kick-off success!Posted by chad.newton on January 17th, 2012

I think that I can speak for everyone when I say that the Rose’s are a great addition to the college ministry. Tonight we covered Romans 1:1. Our aim is to get through 1:1-7 and then through the rest of the letter to the Romans. Before we looked at the scripture we read up on some history about how the book of Romans is a staple in the Christian faith. The words of the book inspired people like St. Augustine and Martin Luther to form the main theological ideologies that hold on to. Most importantly we studied the author of the book.

Romans 1

1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— 2 the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures 3 regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David, 4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power[b] by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. 5 Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake. 6 And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.

7 To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people:

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
(Romans 1:1-7 NIV)

In verse 1 we focused on the word apostle briefly so I figured that I would look at the actual meaning of the word

ἀπόστολος (apostolos) -a delegate; messenger (specifically an ambassador of the Gospel; officially a commissioner of Christ)

Not only was Paul a messenger of Jesus but was also a “doulos”

δοῦλος(doulos) – slave

And for the rest of those who enjoy the Textus Receptus
Rom 1:1 Παῦλος δοῦλος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ κλητὸς ἀπόστολος ἀφωρισμένος εἰς εὐαγγέλιον θεοῦ

With who Paul was aside, I still hold to my statement and want to thank Reagan and Kim Rose for spending their time with us tonight

Teleos Tuesday Night Kick-offPosted by chad.newton on January 16th, 2012

Tomorrow night Regan Rose begins his discussions through the book of Romans. Contrary to last year, we do not begin at 9:00 PM. Due to popular demand, we have moved the start time of Teleos to 7:30 PM at the Barn.

Romans is a very good book to start out this year with. It is arguably the one book in the Bible that can truly explain the Old and New testaments and how they compliment each other. We look forward to seeing you there and have a great semester!

RelfectionPosted by chad.newton on December 20th, 2011

Congratulations to a good semester finished this year. what had God shown you this semester? Take some time over break to reflect on what you feel God was teaching you over the semester or begin to get back into knowing God.

Chirsmas is comingPosted by chad.newton on November 27th, 2011

After all the family has gone I bet we can start feeling that Christmas is on its way. The stores have been ready since September and I bet that the radio stations are wearing out the old classic Christmas music three weeks before the day gets here. With all this going around what can we make of this very famous holiday?

Now I have had talks with my co-workers and they have always not appreciated Christians trying to ruin the Christmas spirit with all of our Jesus talk. They proposed to me that Jesus was not actually born on December 25th as we think but the holiday was made so it coincided with the pagan holiday around the same time. Could this be true? The way I see it, it doesn’t really matter what day you celebrate a holiday unless you want to adhere to ritual. Regardless of when the Christ was born we can celebrate it on any day. However why do non-believers think we are crashing the party?

A bigger question we can ask is how can we celebrate the birth of the savior of creation? When we think of our past leaders and social icons how do we remember them. MLK day is coming up soon. I didn’t know this but the reason that it is a national holiday is because it is supposed to be a day of service. They took an aspect of Dr. Kings life and they celebrate through service.

How can we celebrate the birth and the death of the greatest servant mankind has ever known?