Posted on Sep 21, 2024 in Bulletin |
The New Teaching
- 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 24:1-6 ESV
- A Psalm of David.
- 1 The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
- 2 for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.
- 3 Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place?
- 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
- 5 He will receive blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
- 6 Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob.
- Selah
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 469 – Jesus is All the World to Me
- UMH 454 – Open My Eyes That I May See
- UMH 452 – My Faith Looks Up to Thee
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- Wonderful Merciful Savior – © 1989 Curb Dayspring Music
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sep 20-26 – GMC General Conference – San Jose, Costa Rica
- Sermon – “The New Teaching” – [Acts 17:16-32 ESV]
- 16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.
- 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.
- 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, “What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”–because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
- 19 And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
- 20 For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.”
- 21 Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.
- 22 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.
- 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
- 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,
- 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
- 26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
- 27 that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,
- 28 for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
- 29 Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
- 30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
- 31 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
- 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about this.”
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- TFWS 2226 – Bind Us Together
- Benediction
- Postlude