Posted on Jun 25, 2022 in Bulletin |
Engage Culture – Acts 4:1-10, 18-31
- Prelude
- Welcome | Announcements
- Sun July 17 | 11:30am (after service) Church Picnic (Parking Lot and Dining Hall)
- Fri July 29 | 7pm Feed My Starving Children – please contact Gerri Henze
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – 2 Chronicles 20:16-17 ESV
- 16 Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, east of the wilderness of Jeruel.
- 17 You will not need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.’ Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, and the LORD will be with you.”
- Reading – [Acts 3:17-22 ESV]
- 17 “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
- 18 But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.
- 19 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
- 20 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
- 21 whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.
- 22 Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 529 – How Firm a Foundation
- TFWS 2203 – In His Time
- TFWS 2149 – Living for Jesus
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- TFWS 2167 – More Like You
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “Engage Culture” – [Acts 4:1-10, 18-31 ESV]
- 1 And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,
- 2 greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
- 3 And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.
- 4 But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
- 5 On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem,
- 6 with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family.
- 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”
- 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders,
- 9 if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
- 10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead–by him this man is standing before you well.
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- 18 So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
- 19 But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge,
- 20 for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”
- 21 And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people, for all were praising God for what had happened.
- 22 For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
- 23 When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
- 24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,
- 25 who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, “‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?
- 26 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed’–
- 27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
- 28 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
- 29 And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness,
- 30 while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
- 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.
- Closing Hymn
- TFWS 2281 – May You Run and Not Be Weary
- Benediction
- Postlude