Welcome to Community Dinner!
We invite you to stay for a brief “Jesus Story”
at 5:30 with dessert to follow.
Youth mature enough to engage in a Bible discussion will be dismissed to go down stairs at 5:30 if two adult leaders are present.
Listening Question:
What helps a person today develop the kind of spiritual sight that can recognize God’s work in the ordinary—and what are the things that tend to blind us to it?
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During the community dinners for 20 min Bible discussion.
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[Luke 2] At this time a man named Simeon was living in Jerusalem. Simeon was a good man. He loved God and was waiting for him (the Lord) to save the people of Israel. God's Spirit came to him and told him that he would not die until he had seen Christ the Lord.
When Mary and Joseph brought Jesus to the temple to do what the Law of Moses says should be done for a new baby, the Spirit told Simeon to go into the temple. Simeon took the baby Jesus in his arms and praised God,
“Lord, I am your servant, and now I can die in peace, because you have kept your promise to me. With my own eyes I have seen the salvation you presented in front of all people, and foreign nations will also see this. Your mighty power is a light for all nations, and it will bring honor to your people Israel.”
Jesus' parents were surprised at what Simeon had said. Then he blessed them and told Mary, “This child of yours will cause many people in Israel to fall and others to stand. The child will be like a warning sign. Many people will reject him, and you, Mary, will suffer as though you had been stabbed by a dagger. But all this will show what people are really thinking.”
The prophet Anna was also there in the temple. She was the daughter of Phanuel from the tribe of Asher, and she was very old. In her youth she had been married for seven years, but her husband died. And now she was 84 years old. Night and day she served God in the temple by praying and fasting.
At this time Anna came in and praised God. She spoke about the child Jesus to everyone who hoped for Jerusalem to be set free.