12-29-2019, 09:30 AM
RESTORATION TODAY
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019.
TOPIC: *SERVING GOD TOGETHER*
"Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business." Acts 6:2-3.
*MESSAGE*
In Acts 6:1-7, we encounter one of the ways that the believers in the early church organised their effort. They worked together to form a system. It wasn't chaotic. They didn't waste energy, time or resources. They wanted to work efficiently for God.
They recognised their own abilities and their own limitations. They didn't run around trying to do everything at once. They didn't try to do more than the could do, and they worked hard at what they could do. As a result, the church grew, and more and more people came to know Jesus. (verse 7)
Believers today also need to share responsibilities. No one can do it all. And everyone should be doing something. We need to prayerfully consider where our abilities best fit into God's work. We need to ask God to assign us to tasks that will allow us to best serve him. And as a result, the Word of God will spread.
*ACTION POINT*
? When we serve God together, each of us contributing our gifts and abilities, the church will flourish.
*SCRIPTURE READING*
Acts 6:1-7; Ephesians 4:3; 1 Corinthians 12:1-12.
*PRAYER POINTS*
1. Lord, thank you for blessing all of us with different gifts and abilities in the church;
2. Father, help me to know the abilities You have given me in the name of Jesus;
3. Lord, show me the ways to use the abilities You have given me in the name of Jesus;
4. Lord, help me to know my limitations as well in the name of Jesus.
*THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR*
Esther 5-6; Malachi 1; Revelations 20:7-21.8
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019.
TOPIC: *SERVING GOD TOGETHER*
"Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business." Acts 6:2-3.
*MESSAGE*
In Acts 6:1-7, we encounter one of the ways that the believers in the early church organised their effort. They worked together to form a system. It wasn't chaotic. They didn't waste energy, time or resources. They wanted to work efficiently for God.
They recognised their own abilities and their own limitations. They didn't run around trying to do everything at once. They didn't try to do more than the could do, and they worked hard at what they could do. As a result, the church grew, and more and more people came to know Jesus. (verse 7)
Believers today also need to share responsibilities. No one can do it all. And everyone should be doing something. We need to prayerfully consider where our abilities best fit into God's work. We need to ask God to assign us to tasks that will allow us to best serve him. And as a result, the Word of God will spread.
*ACTION POINT*
? When we serve God together, each of us contributing our gifts and abilities, the church will flourish.
*SCRIPTURE READING*
Acts 6:1-7; Ephesians 4:3; 1 Corinthians 12:1-12.
*PRAYER POINTS*
1. Lord, thank you for blessing all of us with different gifts and abilities in the church;
2. Father, help me to know the abilities You have given me in the name of Jesus;
3. Lord, show me the ways to use the abilities You have given me in the name of Jesus;
4. Lord, help me to know my limitations as well in the name of Jesus.
*THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR*
Esther 5-6; Malachi 1; Revelations 20:7-21.8