Sunday, May 31st, 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.
We are also continuing to offer the Kids’ Journal pages template as another resource to help your kids engage as you continue in worship together.
Welcome & Announcements
Call To Worship
Have someone read through this call to worship from Mark 12. As you prepare your heart for worship, reflect for a moment on the two “directions” of loving God that Jesus highlights below. Then prayerfully approach the Lord with your whole being as we head into worship together.
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
— Mark 12:28-31
Worship
Sermon
Click on the video above to watch the sermon for this week.
This week, we’re studying Acts 1:3-11 as we 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.
In your journal or together with those who have gathered with you, reflect on what in your life would be considered “these,” just like Jesus asked Peter. Share your thoughts with your group or with someone you trust. Spend some time now, or at the end of this Going Deeper section, praying for one another and laying down the “these” that compete with Jesus for being first in our lives.
In what ways do you have the opportunity to feed Jesus’ sheep in your life? How are you loving, caring for, pouring into others around you? Is this an area of growth in your life? With social distancing, it takes more effort to love and serve those around you. Spend some time brainstorming ways to feed Jesus’ sheep and make a concrete plan to act on one of your ideas in the coming week.
Jesus invites us to live out our love for Him by putting him first and shepherding others around us. But sometimes we can “deprioritize” things, or we can even “care for others” in order to satisfy our own need for worth, our own need to be needed, or to build a up our sense of being good people; said another way, sometimes we do what Jesus says for the wrong reasons. Are you ever in danger of obeying Jesus because it makes you feel needed or worthwhile, as opposed to it being overflow of loving a Savior who has redeemed us and called us to know Him more? Explore your motivation for obedience, and hold it up against Jesus’ invitation to obey him because we love Him. Confess your other motivations to Him in prayer, and invite him to help your obedience overflow from knowing and loving Him.
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.
“May the LORD bless you and keep you;
the LORD make his face shine on you,
and be gracious to you;
the LORD turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”
— Numbers 6:24-26
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.