{"id":702,"date":"2012-03-25T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T18:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nwcc777.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2013-11-01T09:08:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:08:20","slug":"coincidence-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nwcc777.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Coincidence or Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you believe in COINCIDENCE, two simultaneous yet unrelated events that have meaning which can only be explained by mere fate or chance?\u00a0 If you said \u201cyes\u201d, please briefly consider the possibility that NOTHING is coincidence. \u00a0Everything<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nwcc777.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/thumb-18.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"lightbox[702]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-89\" alt=\"Whats Next?\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nwcc777.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/thumb-18.jpg?resize=90%2C90&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nwcc777.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/thumb-18.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nwcc777.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/thumb-18.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nwcc777.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/thumb-18.jpg?resize=59%2C59&amp;ssl=1 59w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nwcc777.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/thumb-18.jpg?resize=141%2C141&amp;ssl=1 141w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nwcc777.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/thumb-18.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=90%2C90&amp;ssl=1 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a> occurs and happens for a specific reason and for a specific purpose.\u00a0 You choose your friends for a specific purpose, your work for a purpose, your leisure time purposefully; all these things are NOT accidental.\u00a0 The fact you are reading this article at this very moment is not a coincidence or an accident.\u00a0 You may think \u201coh, I\u00a0clicked onto this blog\u00a0because I was bored.\u201d\u00a0 Yet, isn\u2019t boredom a reason?\u00a0 That which led you to reading for the PURPOSE of easing this very boredom?<\/p>\n<p>Reconsider coincidence and embrace God\u2019s purpose for your life.\u00a0 God has a purpose for everyone and in everything, good and bad.\u00a0 God knows every hurt in your life, every disappointment and every joy.\u00a0 He knows every intimate detail of our lives, good and bad, and He will never stop loving you!\u00a0 Do you believe that?<\/p>\n<p>Here at Northwest Community Church, we would like to invite you to discover your purpose in life.\u00a0 We believe that God wants to reclaim you for the purpose for which He made you.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that Jesus Christ came to the earth, that He created, and lived a perfect life.\u00a0 Something we could never do!\u00a0 He was crucified in our place for the sins we have committed; past, present and future.\u00a0 A perfect sacrifice that we could never be!\u00a0 Then after being dead for three days He rose from the grave. \u00a0Claiming victory over death, He is RISEN! \u00a0\u00a0Again, something we could never do!<\/p>\n<p>We are in desperate need of a Savior, who lived the perfect life, died the perfect death and who was the perfect sacrifice to show us mercy then grace in order to receive eternal life.<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s purpose for Jesus Christ was revealed through His life, burial and resurrection.\u00a0 The first and foremost purpose is to satisfy God&#8217;s wrath and reveal God\u2019s glory.\u00a0 Secondly, God\u2019s purpose is to redeem sinful humankind to a righteous and holy position in order that we may have fellowship with Him again!\u00a0 Jesus Christ has risen from the dead so that we could have forgiveness from our sins and the hope of eternal life!<\/p>\n<p>Please join us this Easter Sunday, ON PURPOSE, so that God may reclaim you for the Purposes which He created you for.\u00a0 At Northwest Community Church, on April 8th, at 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you believe in COINCIDENCE, two simultaneous yet unrelated events that have meaning which can only be explained by mere fate or chance?\u00a0 If you said \u201cyes\u201d, please briefly consider the possibility that NOTHING is coincidence. \u00a0Everything occurs and happens for a specific reason and for a specific purpose.\u00a0 You choose your friends for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-of-faith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2vwve-bk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwcc777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwcc777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwcc777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwcc777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwcc777.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nwcc777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/nwcc777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwcc777.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwcc777.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwcc777.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}