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.
- Saints are invited to come for ongoing shepherding trips in Italy. See latest report here. More information is available at (tinyurl.com/ShepherdingApplic), which also includes a dynamic calendar (tinyurl.com/ShepherdingCalendar) of upcoming shepherding trips.
- The Wednesday night ministry meeting starts at 7:30 pm (https://www.lsmwebcast.com/MinMeeting.cfm)
- We will start week 1 of a new Holy Word for Morning Revival from the 2025 December Semi-Annual Training “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (4)”. 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 31 | Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages)Redmond/Sammamish/Issaquah (English), Andy and Rose Wu’s, 19223 NE 64th Way, Redmond , WA 98052 |
| April 7 | Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages) |
- We will read the Life-study of Ephesians messages 89 and 90 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 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 |
| April 19 | 98004 |
| USHERING SERVICE SCHEDULE | LORD’S TABLE SERVICE SCHEDULE | |||
| Date | Team | Date | Team | |
| March 29 | C | March 29 | 2 | |
| April 5 | D | April 5 | 3 | |
| April 12 | A | April 12 | 4 | |
| April 19 | B | April 19 | 1 | |
Schedule
NW YP Retreats March 27-29
Church service coordination meeting on Saturday 4/4
Ministry Reading: The Friend of Sinners
Luke 23:42 And he said, Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.
Mark 5:27 When she heard the things concerning Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His garment,
Mark 5:28 For she said, If I touch even His garments, I will be healed.
There are many people of whom you may feel that they were saved by the wrong scriptures! They were spoken to through verses that do not seem to point the way of salvation, and you almost feel they cannot be saved on that basis! You feel that there must be a weakness somewhere, and yet you have to recognize that God is often pleased to work in that way. I used to wish that those whom I led to the Lord would be saved on the basis of John 3:16 or 5:24 or 6:40 . But I have come to see that all that is needed for the initial step is that there should be a personal touch with God, and when that is so the rest will surely follow. It does not matter, therefore, which verses God elects to use for that first step. After all, we do not need to study the theory of electricity and to understand it thoroughly before we can turn on the electric light. The light does not say, “I am not going to shine for you, for you know nothing of the principle on which I work.” And God does not set understanding as the condition of our approach to Him. “This is life eternal, that they should know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.”
Let us take three examples from the Gospels. Which was the first outstanding conversion recorded in the New Testament? Surely that of the thief on the cross. Up till then everything had been pointing forward to the Cross of Christ. Now it was being enacted before men’s eyes, and the thief was a witness. This man was a model sinner and was receiving a model punishment, and his was, we may say, a model conversion. Yet did he recognize the Lord as Savior? What were his words? “Remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom” (Luke 23:42). What did the Lord reply? He did not remind him of his evil life, or tell him that he was suffering justly and ought to die, and that instead He, Jesus, was suffering on the cross for him and dying for his sins. It seems to us that it would have been an excellent opportunity to announce the plan of redemption—but no, the Lord only answered: “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.” For the thief recognized who Jesus was —that though suffering unjustly He was going to reign and would have a Kingdom—and he believed in the Lord, and that was enough.
Consider next the woman with an issue. In Mark 5:24 we are told that the multitude “thronged” Jesus. There were many among the crowd who were touching and even pressing upon Him, but only one among them was healed. She was healed because with a special intention she “touched” Him. And it only required a touch; for in her it represented a reaching out in spirit to God for help in her deep need.
Or recall the incident of the Pharisee and the publican at prayer in the temple. The Pharisee understood all about offerings and sacrifices and tithes, but there was from him no cry of the heart to God. But the publican cried, “Lord, have mercy upon me!” Something went out from him to God which met with an immediate response, and the Lord Jesus singles him out as the one whom God reckoned righteous. For what is it to be reckoned righteous? It is to touch God.