GRACE MANOR SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS

Sunday, February 20th was a great day for our Adults 4 Christ Class. We shared our study time, food and love with the residents of Grace Manor.
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It touched our hearts at how happy they were to see us. Some followed word for word as Joe read our study scripture for the week during his presentation. Some had to show us their rooms and most were eager to share hugs as well. When they took your hand you felt like they didn't want to let go.

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It was one of those rare days when you hold on to great feelings of joy and at the same time have to hold back a few tears.

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God has blessed our church with Grace Manor, and this was a day when we were allowed to share that blessing with the wonderful people who live there.

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Thank God for Grace Baptist Church for allowing us this great opportunity to share the love of Christ. Thank God for our teachers, Joe and Brenda Steakley for their efforts in leading us thru-out this mission.

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Below is a gift our class left for the residents, first to remember Christ and then to remember us and our visit. That morning we left with everything we needed to remember them locked away in our hearts.

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THE PRODIGAL SON

The parable of the prodigal son shows the attitude of the self-righteous sinner, pictured by the older son. He quarreled with his father that the younger son had messed up and yet the father had prepared for him the “fatted calf.” Because he considered himself better than the younger son, he could not share in the father’s joy. “My son,” the father said, “you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.” The older son’s hardness of heart made him unaware of the riches available to him in his father’s house. This son complained that he had “slaved all these years.” He had no more love for the father than the younger son; nor did he avail himself of all the good things the father freely provided for him at all times. Both sin and self-righteousness separate us from God. We all require God’s grace, His unearned, unmerited love for us. The father went out to the disgruntled older son. God is He who always continues to seek after us, regardless of the state we are in.