2024-09-15

Posted on Sep 14, 2024 in Bulletin |

Be Like the Bereans

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School (Adults and Kids)
    • Sep 29 @ 4:30pm – Softball Game @ dome
    • Oct 11 @ 6:30pm – Plano HS Football game
    • Oct 12 @ 8am – Fall Clean-up
    • Oct 13 @ 1pm – Trunk or Treat
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – Psalm 119:73-76 BSB
    • 73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.
    • 74 May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.
    • 75 I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
    • 76 May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.
  • Worship Hymns
    • TFWS 2022 – Great is The Lord
    • TFWS 2080 – All I Need Is You
    • TFWS 2223 – They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • Draw Me Close – © 1994 Mercy / Vineyard Publishing
  • Intercessory Prayer
    • Sep 20-21 – Mission Trip – Dream Center Peoria
    • Sep 20-26 – GMC General Conference – San Jose, Costa Rica
  • Sermon – “Be Like the Bereans” – [Acts 17:1-15 ESV]
    • 1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
    • 2 And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
    • 3 explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
    • 4 And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women.
    • 5 But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd.
    • 6 And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
    • 7 and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.”
    • 8 And the people and the city authorities were disturbed when they heard these things.
    • 9 And when they had taken money as security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
    • 10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.
    • 11 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
    • 12 Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men.
    • 13 But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.
    • 14 Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there.
    • 15 Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 671 – Lord, Dismiss Us With Thy Blessing
  • Benediction
  • Postlude