Order, Words, & Voices
04.28.24, Cultivating Common, Acts 18:1-4 & 1 Cor. 1:10-18
Order
Pre Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close
Songs Come, Now is the Time to Worship Lynn/Team
Everlasting God
Participatory Reading and Prayer Beth
Songs Jesus, Name Above All Names Lynn/Team
Blessed Assurance
Passage Acts 17:1-9 Martha
Message Cultivating Common Rick
Music Jesus Paid It All Lynn/Team
Community/Benediction Rick
Closing Peace Rick
Closing Music Our God Will Go Before Us Lynn/Team
Post Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close
Music (Slides) Lynn/Team
Come Now Is The Time To Worship 2430948
Chorus
Come now is the time to worship
Come now is the time to give your heart
Come just as you are to worship
Come just as you are before your God
Come
Verse 1
One day every tongue
Will confess You are God
One day every knee will bow
Still the greatest treasure remains
For those who gladly choose You now
Chorus
Come now is the time to worship
Come now is the time to give your heart
Come just as you are to worship
Come just as you are before your God
Come
Verse 1
One day every tongue
Will confess You are God
One day every knee will bow
Still the greatest treasure remains
For those who gladly choose You now
Ending
Come come just as you are come come
Everlasting God CCLI Song # 4556538
Verse
Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord
Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord
Pre-Chorus
Our God You reign forever
Our Hope our strong Deliv’rer
Chorus
You are the everlasting God
The everlasting God
You do not faint
You won’t grow weary
You’re the defender of the weak
You comfort those in need
You lift us up on wings like eagles
Response (Slides) Beth
Leader: No matter what is happening in your life, God’s blessing and love is with you.
Response: We shall draw near to God and hear what God desires us to do.
Leader: We are called to live lives of justice and love and truth.
Response: God gives us the courage and strength to be faithful as we follow the life and words of Jesus Christ.
Leader: May we embrace the values of eternity as opposed to those of the world in which we live.
Response: May we see ourself and others through the perspective of Jesus.
Leader: May we sense God’s blessings.
Response: May we reflect God’s compassion.
Leader: May we trust God’s acceptance.
Response: May our lives reveal God’s embrace of all.
Leader: We gather because Jesus is our deliverer.
Response: We gather because Jesus is our center.
Leader: Join us in the prayer of Jesus,
[Slide] Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.
[Slide] Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.
[Slide] Give us this day our daily bread.
[Slide] Forgive us our trespasses, while we forgive those who trespass against us.
[Slide] And, lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
[Slide] For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Music (Slides) Lynn/Team
Jesus Name Above All Names CCLI Song # 21291
Verse 1
Jesus name above all names
Beautiful Savior glorious Lord
Emmanuel God is with us
Blessed Redeemer living Word
Verse 1
Jesus name above all names
Beautiful Savior glorious Lord
Emmanuel God is with us
Blessed Redeemer living Word
Blessed Assurance CCLI Song # 22324
Verse 1
Blessed assurance Jesus is mine
O what a foretaste of glory divine
Heir of salvation purchase of God
Born of His Spirit washed in His blood
Chorus
This is my story this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
This is my story this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
Verse 2
Perfect submission perfect delight
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight
Angels descending bring from above
Echoes of mercy whispers of love
Chorus
This is my story this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
This is my story this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
Verse 3
Perfect submission all is at rest
I in my Savior am happy and blest
Watching and waiting looking above
Filled with His goodness lost in His love
Chorus
This is my story this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
This is my story this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
Passage (Slides) Martha
I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in agreement and that there be no divisions among you but that you be knit together in the same mind and the same purpose.
For it has been made clear to me by Chloe’s people that there are quarrels among you, my brothers and sisters. What I mean is that each of you says, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.”
Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
I thank God that, as far as I can remember, I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, and the household of Stephanas, so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name.
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to proclaim the gospel—and not with eloquent wisdom, so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its power.
For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
I Corinthians 1:10-18
Message Rick
[Do not screen share until first slide is noted]
Comments last week about the mess of the Church at Corinth
- Paul’s concern about incoming false teachers like most other places
- False teachers throughout history including the present
- Truth was though, Paul oved Corinthians, thought of them as family spent 18 months with the faith community at Corinth
- Concern that Corinthians were easy target
- True love and attachment for the people of the Corinth faith community
[Begin Screen Share leave up until noted]
[Slide] Paul’s love for Corinthians evident in opening of letter even through his concern and frustration
“I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that has been given you in Christ Jesus, for in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind— just as the testimony of Christ has been strengthened among you—
[Slide] so that you are not lacking in any gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ. He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the partnership of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.”
(I Corinthians 1:4-9)
Corinthian Faith Community Image (before Paul left)
- Diverse in every aspect, gender, social status, money, vocation, education, powerful and the weak, marginalized, etc.
- Vibrant in worship and fellowship
- Active, invested, and engaged in church and community
- Faithful to the Faith Community that was the Corinth Church
[Slide] Edward Adams says, “Although Paul is critical of the Corinthians throughout much of the letter, their form of Christianity was successful: a large congregation, lively worship, and secure and amicable relations with wider society.“
(Edward Adams, senior lecturer in New Testament Studies at King’s College London)
[Slide] Paul’s Concerns/complaints revealed in letter sent to Paul after he left
- Divided on those lines of diversity
- Table evidenced most at the table, table is where marginalization was most apparent
- Ignored immorality of incest within church
- Immaturity of those claiming Spiritual position (arrogance/entitlement)
- Lawsuits against others withing the church
- Food offered to idols/disrespect of others
- Marketplace engagement with abandonment, too close held dangers that had entangled the Corinthian church
- And more…
[Slide] Paul Calls Out Corinthian Believers
- Divisions created by their acceptance of false teacher, lessening the power/position of Jesus, they lost their center, their core, their focus
- Dangers of following and aligning with humans
- The people had let go of truth, they had ceased to cultivate their commonality – Jesus
[Slide] When we lose sight of truth we lose the vision of our heart
[Slide] When we lose our vision we lose our way
[Slide] When we lose our way we flounder
[Slide] When we flounder we easily settle into lies
[Slide] When we accept lies we lose our identity, we lose who we are
[End Screen Share] Prayer
Music (Slide) Lynn/Team
Jesus Paid It All
Verse 1
I hear the Savior say
Thy strength indeed is small
Child of weakness watch and pray
Find in Me thine all in all
Chorus 1
Jesus paid it all
All to Him I owe
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow
Verse 2
Lord now indeed I find
Thy pow’r and Thine alone
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone
Chorus 1
Jesus paid it all
All to Him I owe
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow
Verse 3
And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete
Jesus died my soul to save
My lips shall still repeat
Chorus 1
Jesus paid it all
All to Him I owe
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow
Interlude
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow
Community (Slides) Rick
- Next Sunday, 05.05.24, The Greatest, 1 Corinthians 13
- Pastor swap, 05.12.24
- Summer Series ‘The Faces of My Faith, 05.26.24
- Dinner and Games night coming soon
Closing Benediction (Slides)
[Slide] May we live in the wisdom of God as we leave in the power of the cross.
[Slide] May our departure from this place propel us to serve a perishing world as we live in the wisdom of God.
[Slide] May the promises of the Lord and the nearness of God’s Spirit draw us closer to Christ.
[Slide] May we step onto God’s path, may we keep our eyes focused on God’s way, and may our common connection of God’s love hold us steady in all that the world presents to us.
Closing Peace (Slides) Rick
[Slide] Leader: May the peace of the Lord go with you.
[Slide] Response: And also with you.
Closing Music Billy/Team
Our God Will Go Before Us Song # 7218329
Verse 1
Our God will go before us
And guide us by His presence
What confidence this promise is
We will never walk alone
Verse 2
Through unknown paths through shadows
Our hearts fear not tomorrow
For every step His faithfulness
Is the truth that lights our way
Chorus
Our God will go before us
The Lord of Hosts is with us
O praise the One who leads us on
For His grace will bring us home
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