PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Responsive Call to Worship
Leader - Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens,
People - Your faithfulness to the skies.
Leader - Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,
People - Your justice like the great deep.
Leader - You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.
People - How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!
Leader - People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
All - We celebrate your incredible love today.
Ephesians 4:11-13 (NLT2)
Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.
A CHURCH THAT INSTRUCTS YOU
1 Tim. 4:7; Eph. 4:11-13
…Spend your time and energy in training yourself for spiritual fitness. Physical exercise has some value, but spiritual exercise is much more important, for it promises a reward in both this life and the next.
– 1 Timothy 4:7-8
(Jesus) is the one who gave these gifts to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ, until we come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God's Son that we will be mature and full grown in the Lord, measuring up to the full stature of Christ.
– Ephesians 4:11-13
1. A PLACE TO GROW
Let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from him, so you will grow in faith, strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. Let your lives overflow with thanksgiving for all he has done.
– Colossians 2:7
1. A PLACE TO GROW
* IN KNOWLEDGE
1. A PLACE TO GROW
* IN CHARACTER
Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness. Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone. The more you grow like this, the more you will become productive and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
– 2 Peter 1:6-8
1. A PLACE TO GROW
* IN RELATIONSHIP
1. A PLACE TO GROW
Those who know your name trust in you, for you, O LORD, have never abandoned anyone who searches for you.
– Psalms 9:10
I know the LORD is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me.
– Psalms 16:8
2. A PLACE TO GIVE
* SERVICE
Their responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ
– Ephesians 4:12
2. A PLACE TO GIVE
* SACRIFICE
2. A PLACE TO GIVE
Bring all the tithes into the store-house so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do," says the LORD Almighty, "I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won't have enough room to take it in! Try it! Let me prove it to you!
– Malachi 3:10
2. A PLACE TO GIVE
* SUPPORT
For you have been called to live in freedom—not freedom to satisfy your sinful nature, but freedom to serve one another in love.
–Galatians 5:13
3. A PLACE TO GATHER
Let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of his coming back again is drawing near. – Hebrews 10:25
3. A PLACE TO GATHER
FOR WORSHIP
3. A PLACE TO GATHER
* FOR WORSHIP
3. A PLACE TO GATHER
* FOR FELLOWSHIP
3. A PLACE TO GATHER
* FOR FELLOWSHIP
I am planning to go to Spain, and when I do, I will stop off in Rome. And after I have enjoyed your fellowship for a little while, you can send me on my way again.
– Romans 15:24
3. A PLACE TO GATHER
FOR STRENGTH
3. A PLACE TO GATHER
* FOR STRENGTH
3. A PLACE TO GATHER
* FOR STRENGTH
When God's children are in need, be the one to help them out.
– Romans 12:13a
All that I am, All I can be
All that I have, All that is me
Accept and use Lord
As you would choose Lord
Right now today
Take every passion every skill
Take all my dreams
And bend them to your will
My all I give Lord for you
I'll live Lord
Come what may
All that I am, All I can be
All that I have, All that is me
Accept and use Lord
As you would choose Lord
Right now today
Take every passion every skill
Take all my dreams
And bend them to your will
My all I give Lord for you
I'll live Lord
Come what may
Lord, I will lift mine eyes to the hills
Knowing my help is coming from You
Your peace You give me in time of the storm
You are the source of my strength
You are the strength of my life
I lift my hands in total praise to You
You are the source of my strength
You are the strength of my life
I lift my hands in total praise to You
Amen