Women's Fellowship

Women's Fellowship is a teaching series in which the women learn from God's Word and enjoy biblical fellowship with one another. This year, we will be going through lessons centered around the theme, “Daily Choices for Godly Living.”

God has given us the freedom to make choices that glorify Him and thus, every decisions we make are important! Through His grace, we can make choices according to His Word that lead to living wholeheartedly for Him, and there is much joy in the decisions. We hope that through these lessons, women will learn to make choices based upon truth rather than emotions, experiences, or wants so that God would be most glorified!

Come join us once a month on Sundays at 11 AM after worship service for a sweet time learning together from God’s Word about how we can be women who make daily choices that honor God!

At the Women’s Fellowship lesson titled “To Be Selfish or To Love,” we had the opportunity to learn four reasons why there is no place for selfishness in a Christian’s life and how we can make the daily choice to love others by being selfless.

First, selfishness is hypocritical. As Christians, when we fail to love others due to our own selfishness, we act contradictorily to the reality that we know God’s love (1 John 4:19-21). When we are unwilling to love and to be sacrificial towards others, this shows that we don’t understand the magnitude of God’s love and have a flawed understanding of who He is (John 15:12-13).

Second, selfishness is emotional. Our love for others should never be based on our emotions or how we feel. Rather, love was a choice that Christ made by preferring others above Himself. Instead of acting according to our emotions, we can have a genuine love that has no hidden motives and is truly selfless by seeking others’ good (James 3:13-17).

Third, selfishness is arrogant. When we act selfishly and base our love on whether or not the other person deserves it, this shows that we don’t see ourselves accurately before God or recognize our own unworthiness. God honors and values humility (Luke 14:8-11), so we should love others regardless of whether or not they have earned it, knowing that’s how God loves us.

Fourth, selfishness is detrimental. Although it can be easy to buy into the lie that being selfish benefits us more than being selfless does, in the end, it is never worth it to be selfish. Rather than thinking about what profits ourselves, which fosters a mindset that is callous towards God and towards us, let us first consider what is most profitable for others (1 Corinthians 10:23-24).

Knowing that selfishness does not have a place in the life of a Christian, let us grow in recognizing how we can be imitators of God’s love, fight off excuses for selfishness, and make the daily choice to be selfless toward others! Praise God that when we genuinely love others, we can have such a great impact on others’ lives by demonstrating Christlikeness towards them!

Oftentimes, women can tie their worth to their works which leads to perfectionism and leads to anxiousness and worry. But we have a choice in whether we view life from a basis of works or God’s grace through sanctification. Join us for a lesson titled, “To Be a Perfectionist or To Love Sanctification” to learn how we can rest in God’s grace and desire to be more like Christ.

The lesson will be streamed live on Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 11 AM PST.