“Beware of False Prophets” Next Week: Thailand Mission Trip Sharing Matthew 7:15-20 Pastor Darren Carter Order of Service
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UPCOMING EVENTS April 10—Tenebrae Service April 12—Easter Sunday April 12— “No Taste Like Home” Potluck March 1, 2020 August 13-15—Vacation Bible School Please turn your cell phone to silent mode as you enter the sanctuary. VEF has signed up for a subscription to RightNow Media—a Christian company that allows you to stream over 10,000 Bible Studies and Christian shows from many different companies. If you would like to have access to this digital library please go to the following link or scan the QR code—https://forms.gle/TEJ9BcQtQgHEavcD9 “Beware of False Prophets” Next Week: Thailand Mission Trip Sharing Matthew 7:15-20 Pastor Darren Carter Order of Service Call To Praise / Opening All Who Are Thirsty Small Groups of VEF Call to Worship 1 Corinthians 13:2 Time Meeting Place Leader Contact Number & Email Worship in Song I Could Sing of Your Love Forever I Sing a Simple Song of Love TUE NCTU Maria [email protected] 17:30 Engineering Building 3 - Scripture Reading 1 John 4:1, 2 Peter 1:21 EC543 Worship in Song How Great is Our God THU Men’s Breakfast Jeff 0987 378 323 I Surrender 07:00 Ikari Coffee [email protected] 738 Guangfu Road Announcements and Greetings FRI Korean Women’s Group Hayoung 0966 266 041 11:00 Victory –B1-102 Ko [email protected] Worship in the Word: Pastor Darren Carter “False Prophets” - Matthew 7:15-20 FRI Youth Group Linus Lu 0989-543-486 19:30 Victory –8F [email protected] FRI Indonesian Group Timothy 0909335550 Benediction Pastor Darren Carter 19:30 Victory –6F William [email protected] FRI Emmanuel Group Bih Qui 0966-545-764 20:00 Puding 3rd Road Tiang [email protected] FRI Barnabas CG Japie [email protected] 20:00 Guanxin Area Kruger SUN Family Bible Study Pastor [email protected] 11:00 Victory—B105-106 John SUN Korean Group Jonathan 0920 729 307 11:00 Victory - B102 Eun [email protected] SUN Epic Bible Study: Jonah Pastor [email protected] 11:00 Victory—B104 Darren Interested in starting a small group? Need assistance finding a group? Contact Pastor Darren Carter at 03-571-6803 ext:2224 or [email protected] Special Announcement: Announcements In order to help prevent the spread of coronavirus, we request that all Church Epic of Eden Adult Sunday School Bible Study is at 11:00 in B104 attendees follow the following precautions: Bible Study Fellowship meets each week to study the "Acts and Letters of the Apostles". 1. Please wear your medical grade 'surgical' mask throughout the worship or Men meet on Tuesday nights and women meet on Wednesday mornings and evenings. Please talk to Jeff Case: [email protected] or Michelle Lin: [email protected]. fellowship meetings. Vacation Bible School will be on August 13-15, 2020. If you are willing to be a part of the 2. Church has alcohol and soap. Please make use of them. team that plans VBS please talk to Pastor John. 3. Please take your own temperature. If you have a fever, please see a doctor, stay There will be a prayer meeting focused on the VEF pastor search meeting every two home and rest. weeks starting this Sunday (3/1) at 10:45. The next meeting will be on 3/15. Please go to 4. If you have symptoms of respiratory illness, please do not join any church room B1-106 to be a part of this time of prayer for God to give wisdom, guidance, and dis- gatherings. cernment in the pastoral search. People are welcome to come for any length of time they have. 5. If you have visited China, Hong Kong, or Macau (epidemic area) within the last 14 A pastoral search committee has been formed and has met . The search committee will days, please stay home and do not come to Church. meet regularly to pray and look at applicants for the head English pastor position. When the process is complete the committee will make a recommendation to the Victory Pastor/ Elder Personnel Board for approval. The search committee members are Jeff Case, Linus Lu, Sam Yang, Bih Qui Tiang, Timothy Liu, Timothy William, and Japie Kruger. If you have any questions or know of someone who might be a good fit for the head pastor role please talk to one of the committee members. Please be in prayer for the pastor search process. Please Join us for the 2020 Tenebrae Service on April 10 in B1. We will be having our annual “There’s No Taste Like Home” Fellowship potluck on Easter Cell Group Feature Sunday (April 12), Time TBA. Plan on joining us for worship and fellowship. Bring a dish from your home country and bring a friend! Indonesian Cell Group The Indonesian group at VEF is made up of Indonesian Natives who are now living in Taiwan. Our group is a blend of students Last Sunday's (2/23) and professionals coming together to invest in one-another, and • Morning Worship attendance – 99 grow in Christ. • Afternoon Worship attendance— 41 We meet every Friday Evening from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on the 6th • Sunday School attendance – 30 floor of Victory. Our fellowship includes worshipping God • Offering - $75,252 through music, sharing prayer requests, Bible Study, and more! • YTD Giving - $582,966 • Remaining giving needed $3,417,034 ($77,660 weekly) Please be sure to write your names clearly on the offering envelope. This Week Volunteer Workers 9AM: Set-up and Greeters: Susan, Sam — Worship Team: Peter, Naomi, Acquah, Sam F., Yi Ching, Edmund — PPT: Linus — Sound: Jeff How to pay tithes by Wire Transfer Next Week: You can transfer your offerings to Victory's Postal account , the bank code is 700, follow by the account number - 0061021 0478485. Contact Pastor John or Yu-Hwa 9AM: Set-up and Greeters: Sophia, Yinan— Worship Team: Anne, Dora, Mone, Ian, Grace, Yi at [email protected]. Please make sure to contact one of them to make sure the Ching — PPT: Casper Jr. — Sound: Casper money goes into the VEF account and transfer was properly made. “New Prophesy” When it became obvious that the Montanist doctrine was an attack on the Catho- lic faith, the bishops of Asia Minor gathered in synods and finally excommunicated the Montanism, also called Cataphrygian heresy, or New Prophecy, a heretical movement Montanists, probably c. 177. Montanism then became a separate sect with its seat of founded by the prophet Montanus that arose in the Christian church in Phrygia, Asia government at Pepuza. It maintained the ordinary Christian ministry but imposed on it Minor, in the 2nd century. Subsequently it flourished in the West, principally in Car- higher orders of patriarchs and associates who were probably successors of the first thage under the leadership of Tertullian in the 3rd century. It had almost died out in the Montanist prophets. It continued in the East until severe legislation against Monta- 5th and 6th centuries, although some evidence indicates that it survived into the 9th nism by Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527–565) essentially destroyed it, but some rem- century. nants evidently survived into the 9th century. The Montanist writings have perished, except for brief references preserved The earliest record of any knowledge of Montanism in the West dates from 177, and by ecclesiastical writers. The chief sources for the history of the movement are Eusebi- 25 years later there was a group of Montanists in Rome. It was in Carthage in Africa, us’ Historia ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History), the writings of Tertullian and Epiphani- however, that the sect became important. There, its most illustrious convert us, and inscriptions, particularly those in central Phrygia. was Tertullian, who became interested in Montanism c. 206 and finally left the Catho- According to the known history, Montanus, a recent Christian convert, appeared at Ar- lic Church in 212–213. He primarily supported the moral rigorism of the movement dabau, a small village in Phrygia, about 156. He fell into a trance and began to against what he considered the moral laxity of the Catholic bishops. Montanism de- “prophesy under the influence of the Spirit.” He was soon joined by two young women, clined in the West early in the 5th century. (Encyclopedia Britannica) Prisca, or Priscilla, and Maximilla, who also began to prophesy. The movement spread throughout Asia Minor. Inscriptions have indicated that a number of towns were almost 1. In v15, Jesus says to “beware of false prophets” – why, do we think? What do we completely converted to Montanism. After the first enthusiasm had waned, however, think “prophet” means, usually? What gives us that idea? Can we think of an ex- the followers of Montanus were found predominantly in the rural districts. ample of a false prophet in the ancient world? (see e.g., 1 Kings 22; Jeremiah 29) In The essential principle of Montanism was that the Paraclete, the Spirit of truth, these days? whom Jesus had promised in the Gospel According to John, was manifesting himself to 2. Jesus compares these actors to “wolves” – how do we understand that image? the world through Montanus and the prophets and prophetesses associated with him. How do we understand the metaphor of devouring people? This did not seem at first to deny the doctrines of the church or to attack the authority of the bishops. Prophecy from the earliest days had been held in honour, and the 3. Take a look at the kinds of false prophets or false teachers we find in the New Tes- church acknowledged the charismatic gift of some prophets.