Terrigal Presbyterian Church – Our Mission

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  • To Glorify God

    John 17:1-5

    When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

    Isaiah 43:1-7

    But now thus says the Lord,
    he who created you, O Jacob,
        he who formed you, O Israel:
    “Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
        I have called you by name, you are mine.
    When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
        and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
    when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
        and the flame shall not consume you.
    For I am the Lord your God,
        the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour.
    I give Egypt as your ransom,
        Cush and Seba in exchange for you.
    Because you are precious in my eyes,
        and honoured, and I love you,
    I give men in return for you,
        peoples in exchange for your life.
    Fear not, for I am with you;
        I will bring your offspring from the east,
        and from the west I will gather you.
    I will say to the north, Give up,
        and to the south, Do not withhold;
    bring my sons from afar
        and my daughters from the end of the earth,
    everyone who is called by my name,
        whom I created for my glory,
        whom I formed and made.”

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  • Proclaiming Christ

    Deuteronomy 33:1-7

    This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death. He said,

    “The Lord came from Sinai
        and dawned from Seir upon us;
        he shone forth from Mount Paran;
    he came from the ten thousands of holy ones,
        with flaming fire at his right hand.
    Yes, he loved his people,
        all his holy ones were in his hand;
    so they followed in your steps,
        receiving direction from you,
    when Moses commanded us a law,
        as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.
    Thus the Lord became king in Jeshurun,
        when the heads of the people were gathered,
        all the tribes of Israel together.
    “Let Reuben live, and not die,
        but let his men be few.”

    And this he said of Judah:

    “Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah,
        and bring him in to his people.
    With your hands contend for him,
        and be a help against his adversaries.”

    Hebrews 1:1 – 2:4

    Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

    For to which of the angels did God ever say,

    “You are my Son,
        today I have begotten you”?

    Or again,

    “I will be to him a father,
        and he shall be to me a son”?

    And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says,

    “Let all God’s angels worship him.”

    Of the angels he says,

    “He makes his angels winds,
        and his ministers a flame of fire.”

    But of the Son he says,

    “Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever,
        the sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of your kingdom.
    You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
    therefore God, your God, has anointed you
        with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”

    10 And,

    “You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning,
        and the heavens are the work of your hands;
    11 they will perish, but you remain;
        they will all wear out like a garment,
    12 like a robe you will roll them up,
        like a garment they will be changed.
    But you are the same,
        and your years will have no end.”

    13 And to which of the angels has he ever said,

    “Sit at my right hand
        until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?

    14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

    Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

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  • Bible based teaching

    Psalm 119:9-16

    Beth

    How can a young man keep his way pure?
        By guarding it according to your word.
    10 With my whole heart I seek you;
        let me not wander from your commandments!
    11 I have stored up your word in my heart,
        that I might not sin against you.
    12 Blessed are you, O Lord;
        teach me your statutes!
    13 With my lips I declare
        all the rules of your mouth.
    14 In the way of your testimonies I delight
        as much as in all riches.
    15 I will meditate on your precepts
        and fix my eyes on your ways.
    16 I will delight in your statutes;
        I will not forget your word.

    2 Timothy 3:16,17

    16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

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  • A Loving Church Family

    Exodus 19:1–6

    On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the mountain, while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying,
    “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”

    Matthew 12:46–50

    While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him. But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand towards his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

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  • Growing in God’s Grace

    Deuteronomy 7:1–11

    “When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves, and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.

    “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face. You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.

    Ephesians 2:8–10

    For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

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