Posted on Aug 10, 2024 in Bulletin |
Is Jesus Enough for Salvation? Some Say No
- Welcome | Announcements
- Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
- Aug 18 – Ice Cream Social
- Sep 14 @ 3pm – Softball Game @ dome
- Sep 20 & 21 – Mission Opportunity
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – OGRP 698 – Gloria
- Glory to God in the highest, and peace to his people on earth.
- Lord God, heavenly King, almighty God and Father, we worship you, we give you thanks, we praise you for your glory.
- Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, Lord God, Lamb God, you take away the sin of the world:
- have mercy on us;
- you are seated at the right hand of the Father:
- receive our prayer.
- For you alone are the Holy One, you are alone are the Lord,
- you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 657 – This Is the Day
- UMH 545 – The Church’s One Foundation
- Living Hope – © 2011 Atlas Mountain Music
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 351 – Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “Is Jesus Enough for Salvation? Some Say No” – [Acts 15:1-14 ESV]
- 1 But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
- 2 And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.
- 3 So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.
- 4 When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.
- 5 But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.”
- 6 The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter.
- 7 And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
- 8 And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
- 9 and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
- 10 Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
- 11 But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.”
- 12 And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.
- 13 After they finished speaking, James replied, “Brothers, listen to me.
- 14 Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 362 – Nothing but the Blood
- Benediction
- Postlude