Sovereign Grace Community Church, Abuja

20210613- Chosen - Chris Okogwu

The choosing God appoints His Son, elects sinners to be tethered to Him, and works out all of their Salvation by the work of the Spirit, according to an eternal plan seen and experienced in Christ. What does this mean for our faith and worship?

20210606- Psalms 34 - Chris Okogwu

We will be shaped by what we fear and by what we desire. But there is a fear that would save us from all our fears. And there is a desire that we wouldn't know if we're not tasting and feeding on God.

20210530- Trust in the Lord - Chris Okogwu

Why does the Christian life sometimes, or even often, feel like a shrub in the desert rather than like a tree by the stream? What is the remedy, and how does it come to us?

20210523- Matters of First Importance - Chris Okogwu

In our life of faith, we tend to move the Gospel which is a matter of first importance to the fringes. Majoring on its outcomes rather than the Gospel itself. Is it what man does or what God has done in his Son? What is the Gospel? What is the Gospel not?

20210516- The Eldership (Part 2) - Chris Okogwu

The flock of Christ need feeding, care and healing which only flows from the riches of the Gospel. This blessed task is placed upon men who realize their fallenness and need, yet care for the fallen and needy. As God conforms His church to the image of Christ through the ordinary means of grace, what sort of men should be considered to take the lead?

20210509 - The Eldership (Part 1) - Chris Okogwu

Likened to the work of herdsmen, elders are called to a spiritual duty to tend to the spiritual needs of Christ's flock. This task is unattractive when divorced from the Chief Shepherd's example and enabling. Our Good Shepherd has become the model for the elder and His great concern is for the good of the flock over which Christ has made him overseer

20210505 - The Diaconate (Part 2) - Chris Okogwu

For the discerning, sensitive servant, pursuing the people of God in love and practical care, Paul is listing qualities that are to mark deacons who will reflect the servanthood of Christ in his ministration to the church. Not by mere possessing natural skills, abilities and talents, but a character rooted in how Christ has taken hold of the life of the man.

20210425 - The Diaconate (Part 1) - Chris Okogwu

Servants are God's tangible goodness to his people, chosen among the Church, and integral to her flourishing. Deacons are God's beacons, which through multiple cracks, shine nonetheless, the light of Christ and care of the Church. 

 

20210418 - The Doctrine of Justification (Part 6) -Chris Okogwu

What are the implications of the Doctrine of Justification? How does the Gospel destroy the twin evil of legalism and licentiousness? Is Faith alone in Christ equal to Faithfulness to Christ? 

The Doctrine of Justification (Part 5) - Chris Okogwu

Is the Gospel still free if we must bring our faith as though in exchange to receive it?