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Psalm 123 I. Call to Worship: Psalm 96:1-6 II. Offering passage: I Cor. 16:1-2 III. Scripture references:
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Psalm 122 I. Call to Worship: Psalm 95:6,7 II. Offering passage: Phil. 4:18 III. Scripture references:
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Psalm 121 I. Call to Worship: Psalm 95:1-3 II. Offering passage: 2 Cor. 8:1-9 III. Scripture references:
I. Call to Worship: Psalm 89:1
II. Offering passage: Proverbs 3:9 III. Scripture references:
I. Call to Worship: Psalm 86:8-13
II. Offering passage: 2 Corinthians 9:7 III. Scripture references:
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I. Call to Worship: Psalm 84:10-12
II. Offering passage: 1 Corinthians 16:1,2 III. Scripture references:
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Membership Class 4 – The Values That Shape Our Church (Part 2) I. Call to Worship: Psalm 84:1-5a II. Offering passage: 2 Corinthians 9:12-15 III. Scripture references: Gal. 5:13 - “… but through love serve one another.” 1 Cor. 14:1 “Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts…” Eph 5:18: “And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit . . .” Acts 4:31: “And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.” 1 Peter 4:10: “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace.” IV. Quotes: Gordon Fee - “. . . the Spirit’s major role in Paul’s view of things lies with his being the absolutely essential principal of the whole of Christian life, from beginning to end. The Spirit thus empowers ethical life in all of its dimensions— personal, corporate, and in the world. Believers in Christ, who for Paul are “Spirit people” first and foremost, are variously described as living by the Spirit, walking in the Spirit, being led by the Spirit, bearing the fruit of the Spirit, and sowing to the Spirit. . . . the Spirit conforms the believer into the likeness of Christ to the glory of God. The Spirit is therefore the empowering presence of God for living the life of God in the present.” V. Cross-references: John 14:16-18 Psalm 139:13-18 Points of Interest
Membership Class 4 – The Values That Shape Our Church I. Call to Worship: Psalm 73:23-26 II. Offering passage: Exodus 35:4,5, 21 III. Scripture references: Phil 1:27 - “Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel” Rom 10:14, 17 - “How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? . . . So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.” John 17:17: “Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth.” 2 Cor. 2:17 – “For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ. 1 Thess. 2:13 – “And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.” 1 Tim. 4:13 – “Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.” 2 Tim. 4:2-5 – “preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.” Matt. 20:28 – “even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” 1 Peter 4:10-11: “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies--in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ.” Eph 4:15-16 - “Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.” Col 3:16 - “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Heb 10:24-25 - “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.” John 13:35 - “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” 1 Peter 3:15-16 - “… always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect . . .” Acts 2:42 - “They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Col 4:2 - “Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.” IV. Quotes: J.I. Packer - “. . . God’s standard way of securing and maintaining His person-to-person communication with us His human creatures is through the agency of persons whom He sends to us as His messengers ... Such were the prophets and apostles, and such supremely was Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son . . . That is the succession in which preachers today are called to stand.” J.I. Packer - “We should not think of our fellowship with other Christians as a spiritual luxury, an optional addition to the exercises of private devotions. Fellowship is one of the great words of the New Testament: it denotes something that is vital to a Christian’s spiritual health, and central to the Church’s true life. . . . The church will flourish and Christians will be strong only when there is fellowship.” V. Cross-references: Matt. 22:36-40 Matt. 28:18-20 II Timothy 3:16-4:2 Ephesians 4:11-13 I. Call to Worship: Psalm 70:4,5
II. Offering passage: Exodus 25:1,2 III. Scripture references: • Matt. 21:9 – ‘The crowds going ahead of Him, and those who followed, were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David; BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD; Hosanna in the highest!”’ • John 12:35,46 - “For a little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes … I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.” • John 6:65 – “And He was saying, “For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.” • John 10:14,15 – “I am the good shepherd, and I knowMy own and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.” • Acts 2:23,24 - “this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. But God raised Him up again …” • Acts 4:12 – “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” IV. Cross-references: • Matthew 21:33-46 • Acts 4:7-13 • I Peter 2:4-9 V. Quotes: • Matthew Henry - “In singing this psalm we must glorify God for his goodness, his goodness to us, and especially his goodness to us in Jesus Christ.” |
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