Sunday, May 10th, 2020
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children’s Sunday School
Parents, as you are now the ‘Sunday School Teachers’ for your kids, we have prepared this tool to help you guide your kids into the rest of the service. We encourage you to watch alongside of your kids and participate together.
Welcome & Announcements
Call To Worship
Have someone read through this call to worship from Psalm 66. The Psalmist closes with “Come and see what the Lord has done…” When you consider that invitation, what comes to your mind that you can be thankful to the Lord for? How have you seen his hand at work in your life and in this world? Take a few moments to share or write down some things you are thankful to God for — even in the midst of the current circumstances. Then express thanks to God for these things in prayer as you begin your time of worship today.
“Shout for joy to God, all the earth!
Sing the glory of his name;
make his praise glorious.
Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!
So great is your power
that your enemies cringe before you.
All the earth bows down to you;
they sing praise to you,
they sing the praises of your name.”
Come and see what God has done,
his awesome deeds for mankind!”
Worship
Sermon
Click on the video above to watch the sermon for this week.
This week, we’re studying John 21:1-14 as continue in our sermon series: 7 Encounters with the Risen Lord.
Going Deeper
You don’t have to answer all of these questions. Look them over, and use one or two that might be helpful as you respond to God’s Word.
When you read the narrative of ‘Breakfast with Jesus’ what does it stir up in you? What does it mean to you that God would provide in his Word a story with perhaps no other purpose than to describe a beautiful moment of joyous fellowship? What does this say about our God?
“Growing in relationship with Jesus” can be something that we feel isn’t very concrete or perhaps impossible. How do you spend time with Jesus? What does “coming to have breakfast” with Jesus look like in your life? If this is difficult to answer, what do you think it could or should look like (evidenced by scripture)?
In our current moment what does it mean that Jesus offers us joy? What ways have you been reminded of the joy that Jesus described to the disciples in John 15:11 during the Coronavirus crisis? Where do you see that God is calling you out towards obedience in order that His joy may be more in you and that “it would be complete”?
Community Updates & PRAYER
Submit a Prayer Request: Share with one another the needs, challenges, and joys that you, your family, your neighbors, and your workplaces are going through during this time. Prayer requests can be shared with either our whole church, or just the prayer leadership teams.
Spend Some Time in Prayer: We have collected some prayer requests that have been submitted to us and we have posted them on our community prayer wall. This morning, we invite you to pray for those needs posted there, and we also invite you pray over what was shared or discovered in the Going Deeper questions above.
Share a Photo or Video: Here you have an opportunity to post a video, photo, or selfie from different groups and families to share with one another. Take a selfie with Worship Online in the background! Hold up signs! Express your gratitude and celebrate being a part of Community Church!
Benediction
Choose someone to read the passage of Scripture below out loud, or have someone from your family or Zoom group read it out loud as a benediction over our church family.
“Jesus told his disciples in John 15…
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. ”
May you go knowing this joy and knowing His peace”
giving
As you conclude in worship you can login to our giving portal using the link below, take time to mail a check, or reach out to your bank to set up a bill pay. Remember that our tithes and offerings are a continued act of worship and are a physical act of entrusting all of our lives to Jesus.