Sunday Worship Service: August 15, 2021 Scripture: Genesis 3; Romans 3 Message: "Brokenness" Pastor Jon VanderWall Check out this week's bulletin: https://www.hopkinscommunitychurch.net/bulletin/ Worship Songs: I Stand Amazed Living Hope Lord I Need You Mighty to Save The Old Rugged Cross The Stand All songs used with permission: License #2279699 All songs streamed with permission: License #20466216 Give and Support Hopkins Community Church: https://www.hopkinscommunitychurch.net/giving/ Thoughts for Reflection: Last week we saw how God has left us with a mission to make disciples of all nations. We are to tell them the good news that God made a way for them to live the way they were designed to live. We are learning a relational, conversational way to bring them the help they need through the gospel of Jesus. We began this conversation by acknowledging God’s supremacy as creator and designer of all things. Yet, despite God’s perfect design, sin has led to a broken world. We’re a Humpty Dumpty nation. We’ve fallen, we’re broken and we can’t figure out how to put all the pieces back together again. And it’s not for a lack of trying. We all recognize what’s wrong in our world today. We all have a sense of brokenness, and we try our best to fix it. There are all kinds of people trying all kinds of things to put our nation back together again. Despite our best efforts, we have seen only more brokenness, division, and strife. Fortunately for us, God has given us the solution. Questions to take home: What is the chief lie that Satan tells Eve in Genesis 3? How do you see that lie being played out in our culture and in the greater world today? How have you struggled with that lie in your own life? In what ways do we see people working/striving to fix their own brokenness? How has society sought to fix the brokenness in the world? How do these things differ from what the Bible lays out? Where do you see these things in your own life and how can they be more Gospel-centered? Think of one or two people you know that do not follow Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Commit to praying for opportunities to turn everyday conversations into Gospel Conversations, that God would draw these people to His Son, Jesus.