Awakening to Grace Week 1 April 19

Awakening to Grace: Becoming Vulnerable to Love
a series of Sunday evenings with preaching, singing and dialogue

April 19-May 10 2015

Sponsored by the Columbus and Saluda United Methodist Churches

This series of four evenings is designed help each person allow the amazing grace of God to flow over us and act within us “because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given us.” (Romans 5:5) The exciting aspect of this series is that this kind of grace which many of us haven’t even expected to take hold in us, is probably already at work within us. Our task, if you can have one regarding the free gift of grace, is to receive it. Our task is to understand and practice a way of living that makes us vulnerable to that amazing gift of God’s love that will fill our hearts and spread over our lives and the lives of those around us.

This Sunday will be our first event and it will be at the Columbus UMC at 5 p.m. Pizza follows at 6.

You can email each other to carpool. Rob will have to go down much earlier.

Our first speaker is Rev. Tony Sayer. He was pastor of the Saluda and Columbus United Methodist Churches from 1990 to 2008. He was the first and long-time president of the Thermal Belt Outreach Ministry Board. Tony is currently the pastor of Ebenezer United Methodist Church in Vale N.C.  In discussing the Process of Grace, Tony will speak and lead discussion on the three sides of grace; prevenient, saving and sanctifying. He will also explore how our understanding of conversion has generally become precariously narrow and how we can see our hearts being drawn to God more broadly.

Here's the full schedule. Please invite friends, young and old alike. This will be good!

The Process of Grace—Rev. Tony Sayer  April 19, 5 p.m. Columbus UMC

The Prize of Grace—Rev. Augusta Anne Anderson  April 26, 5 p.m. Saluda UMC

Participating in Grace—Rev. Brice Harris  May 3, 5 p.m. Columbus UMC

Practicing Grace—Rev. Rob Parsons  May 10, 5 p.m. Saluda UMC