Divine Community
September 24 – Deuteronomy 16:9-15
Main focus: God wants all people—people who look, think, and act differently—to know and celebrate his saving goodness. A stop in Deuteronomy may seem like a strange detour from our Divine Community series, but hang with it. This week we’ll look at two key festivals...
September 17 – Genesis 12:1-3
Main focus: Embedded in God’s promises to humanity is his redemptive love for a diverse people. In Genesis 12:1-3 we’ll see the integral way in which God’s desire for a multi-ethnic people is woven into his plan for salvation. There we see God visit Abram (later...
September 10 – Genesis 11:1-9
Main focus: God’s glory is demonstrated in an earth-filling, diverse human community. The Tower of Babel may or may not be a familiar story for you, but often it’s taught simply as a tale of God thwarting human arrogance. And it is that—the tower builders wanted to be...
September 3 – Genesis 1:26-28
Main focus: God purposefully created humanity, in all of its diversity, to reflect his creativity and complexity. Last week we looked at the separate persons of the Trinity and their diverse-but-unified triunity. This week we’ll see what that theological reality means...
August 27 – Genesis 1: 1-3
Main focus: God has always existed in perfect community. After starting at the end, we’re headed back to the beginning. In Genesis 1:1-3 we’ll find God at the very start of his work in creation, but we’ll also have the opportunity to ask, what was God doing before the...
Divine Community Weekday Study – Part 1
You'll notice the below guide for John 17 is a bit different from our normal Weekday Studies, including a place for sermon notes. Also, throughout the series, we'll have these available in a printed version on Sundays at every Vintage location.[pdf-embedder...
August 20 – Revelation 7:4-10
Main focus: Worship is the ultimate goal of God's multi-ethnic people and the common bond in a church full of people who look, think, and act differently. This week starts off our Divine Community series and, to put it in Stephen Covey’s words, we’re beginning with...