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RTS Orlando Chapel | Theological Education is
Upheld and Framed by Worship |
The RTS community corporately worships on Wednesdays from 10 - 11 a.m. in the Pamplin Chapel, and everyone is welcome. Every Wednesday at noon we also have a community lunch on the loggia. Students are free to bring their lunches, or a lunch may usually be purchased on the loggia.
CHAPEL MESSAGES NOW ON iTUNES
The RTS-O chapel messages have moved to the RTS iTunes page. You can find them at http://itunes.rts.edu/ by clicking on the "Launch RTS on iTunes U" button.
FALL 2007 - "THE GOOD LIFE"
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. | - Ephesians 2:8-10 |
In Genesis 1-2 God reveals the divine pattern he weaved into the fabric of creation to display his glory. This pattern has certain contours that run through the whole world. Theologians call these contours “creation orders.” Some of the main grooves are marriage and family, work and rest, and creation care. Though the curse has twisted these contours, it has not eradicated them. In the language of “Joy to the World,” Jesus “comes to make his blessing flow far as the curse is found!”
The gospel of the kingdom is straightening creation's crooked contours. As a community of leaders in His Church, we want to experience God’s grace so that more and more his glory is displayed in our marriages and families, our work and rest, and in our care for creation. During our times in chapel this year, let’s reflect together on how God’s grace is reweaving his original pattern into the fabric of our renewed lives for our joy and his glory.
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