Lord’s Day Meeting – 9:30 AM
- In-Person at the Bellevue meeting hall: 1835 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA 98004
- Zoom
Announcements
- Please contact [email protected] if you need a tax report for 2025.
- The Wednesday night ministry meeting starts at 7:30 pm (https://www.lsmwebcast.com/MinMeeting.cfm)
- We will continue with week 9 in the Holy Word for Morning Revival from the fall International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones on “Crucial Aspects of Matthew 5 through 7”. Copies are available in the bookroom.
- Please refer to the prayer meeting schedule below:
| DATE | PRAYER MEETING LOCATION (7:30 PM)Prayer Burdens, Zoom |
| March 24 | Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages)Redmond/Sammamish/Issaquah (English), Bryan and Gigi Morrison’s house, 3033 230th Pl NE, Sammamish, WA 98074 |
| March 31 | Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages)Redmond/Sammamish/Issaquah (English), TBD |
- We will read the Life-study of Ephesians messages 87 and 88 this week.
- The website (https://500lifestudies.org/) provides great resources for how to get into the Life-study messages; the Life-Study mobile app is available for download
- To join a Life-study reading group, use the link below: https://www.cognitoforms.com/Churchinbellevue1/LifeStudyReadingGroupSignUpChurchInBellevue
- The Life-Study of the Bible radio broadcast is every Lord’s day at 8:30 pm, KGNW 820 AM
- Please refer to the table below for the cleaning schedule.
CLEANING SCHEDULE
| TIME PERIOD | CLEANING GROUP (Zip Codes/Cities) |
| March 22 | 98008 |
| March 29 | 98052 |
| April 5 | 98074, 98075, 98027, 98028, 98029 |
| April 12 | Medina, Clyde Hill, Kirkland, Kenmore, Bothell, Woodinville, Marysville, Carnation, Mercer Island, Seattle, Newcastle, Renton, Federal Way |
| USHERING SERVICE SCHEDULE | LORD’S TABLE SERVICE SCHEDULE | |||
| Date | Team | Date | Team | |
| March 22 | B | March 22 | 1 | |
| March 29 | C | March 29 | 2 | |
| April 5 | D | April 5 | 3 | |
| April 12 | A | April 12 | 4 | |
Schedule
NW YP Retreats March 27-29
Church service coordination meeting on Saturday 3/28
Ministry Reading: The Friend of Sinners
Matt. 11:19 – The Son of Man came eating and drinking; and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. Yet wisdom is justified by her works.
At the hour of crisis there are many practical difficulties that face the sinner. For example, in the Scriptures we are often told to believe. The Word lays much stress on the necessity of faith. But you say, “I have not got faith.” A girl once said to me, “I can’t believe. I would like to believe but I can’t! My parents keep on saying to me ‘You must believe,’ but it is no good; I haven’t got it in me. The desire is there, but I find faith lacking. It is impossible to believe.” “That is all right,” I said. “You can’t believe. But you can ask the Lord to give you faith. He is prepared to help you to that extent. You pray: ‘Lord, help Thou my unbelief.’”
Or again, the Word tells us that we are to repent. What if we have no desire whatever to repent? I met a student once who said it was too early for him to come to the Lord. He wanted more time in which to taste the pleasures of sin and to enjoy himself. He said to me, “The thief on the cross was saved, but he had had his fling, and it was high time that he repented. But I—I am young.” “Well, what do you want to do?” I asked him. He replied, “I want to wait for another forty years and have a good time, and then I will repent.” So I said, “Let us pray.” “Oh, I can’t pray,” he answered. “Yes, you can,” I said. “You can tell the Lord all you have told me. He is the Friend of unrepentant sinners like you.” “Oh, I couldn’t say that to Him.” “Why not?” “Oh, but I could not.” “Well, be quite honest. Whatever is in your heart, you tell it to Him. He will help you.” Finally he prayed, and told the Lord that he did not want to repent and be saved, but that he knew he needed a Savior; and he just cried to Him for help. The Lord worked repentance in him and he got up a saved man.
In England in the early nineteenth century there was a woman who had Christian parents and who for years had longed to be saved. She went to hear this and that preacher and visited churches and chapels in her search for salvation, but all in vain. One day she wandered into a little chapel with no real expectation in her heart, for she was almost in despair. She sat down at the back. The speaker was an elderly man. Suddenly in the middle of his address he stopped and pointing his finger at her said: “You, Miss, sitting there at the back, you can be saved now. You don’t need to do anything!” Light flashed into her heart, and with it, peace and joy. Charlotte Elliott went home and wrote her well-known hymn: “Just as I am, without one plea…O Lamb of God I come.” Those words have pointed to countless sinners the way of humble access to God through the blood of Christ. Yes, we dare to say today, to every one of the inhabitants of Shanghai or of any other city, that they can come to Him and be saved just as they are.
I repeat these incidents just to emphasize that what the sinner cannot do the Savior is at hand to do for him. It is for this reason that we can tell people that they need not wait for anything, but can come to Him immediately. Whatever their state, whatever their problem, let them bring it and tell it to the Friend of sinners.