Posted on Aug 24, 2024 in Bulletin |
Missionaries Obey The LORD’s Direction
- Welcome | Announcements
- Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
- Sep 20 & 21 – Mission Opportunity
- Sep 29 @ 4:30pm – Softball Game @ dome
- Oct 11 @ 6:30pm – Plano HS Football game
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – OGRP 709 – Prayer for Watchfulness
- You, O Lord, have called us to watch and pray.
- Therefore, whatever may be the sin against which we pray, make us careful to watch against it, and so have reason to expect that our prayers will be answered.
- In order to perform this duty rightfully, grant us grace to preserve a sober and equal temper, and the sincerity to pray for your assistance.
- Amen.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 133 – Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
- UMH 367 – He Touched Me
- Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing – © 2006 Clumsy Fly Music
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 352 – It’s Me, It’s Me, O Lord
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “Missionaries Obey The LORD’s Direction” – [Acts 16:1-15 ESV]
- 1 Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek.
- 2 He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium.
- 3 Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
- 4 As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem.
- 5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.
- 6 And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
- 7 And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.
- 8 So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas.
- 9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
- 10 And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
- 11 So, setting sail from Troas, we made a direct voyage to Samothrace, and the following day to Neapolis,
- 12 and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city some days.
- 13 And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.
- 14 One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.
- 15 And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 514 – Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus
- Benediction
- Postlude