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Kinds of Love

We’re dependent creatures who need the love of others. Need-loves show us our ultimate need for God’s Gift-love. In this way, the lesser loves serve as a foundation for the greater love – namely, God’s love for us in the Person and work of Jesus Christ. Our need for love along with our human inability…

‘Storge’ or Affection

When we don’t feel affection from others, we feel underappreciated. We tend to forget who loves us. The opposite is also true. When we forget to show affection to those we love, we tend to take them for granted. Friendships turn conditional and romance becomes stale. We lose appreciation when we forget to show common…

‘Philia’ or Friendship

It must be said that friendship is not necessary to life. Friendship can’t give you life. But, it can give you a higher quality and experience of life. Friendship has a way of drawing the best out of life and each other.

About

The name of this gathering comes from an old Latin phrase, simul Justus et peccator which means “simultaneously saying & sinner.” This phrase was used by 16th century reformers to capture how the Christian life is lived in a fallen world. Together, we are “sinners & Saints” – a company of men who need & want to hear Good News – the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our purpose for meeting is to assist one another in our common journey through this life as “simuls.” We do so by sharing honestly, out of our own personal experiences, the challenges and encouragements of living in a fallen world of which we are a contributor. Our faith rests in the love of God, as it is revealed in His Word and in the life of His Son. 

The core of our beliefs lie in “The Great Fact.” Any man who shares or is earnestly pursuing this faith is welcome to gather with us.

The Great Fact: 

  1. God exists. In the timeless mystery of the Trinity, He is perfectly harmonious, perfectly whole. 
  2. God is our Creator. He designed us to live in the eternal harmony with Him and each other, and to care for the rest of His creation. 
  3. Spurning God’s fellowship, we all have sinned, forfeiting our created place and losing our spiritual lives. 
  4. I myself have personally defied God’s law and rejected His love. Alienation from Him has produced darkness and chaos in my life, for which I have often blamed others. 
  5. God has continued to love me, even in my active rebellion and in Christ has done everything necessary to restore me perfectly to Himself. 
  6. As I accept responsibility for my sin and find forgiveness in the finished work of Christ, I experience reconciliation with God and am progressively restored to harmony with myself and others. 
  7. Despite the lingering effects of sin, I am a restored son of the sovereign Lord, whose Spirit is at work in my weakness, displaying His glory and advancing His Kingdom in and through me. 

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