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March 4, 2018. Gatherings. Matthew Video, Ch.8-10 Today – 30 minutes long Potluck Sunday, Mar. 25 @ 12:00pm. Prayer. Requests & Thanksgiving. Offering. Online giving now available on website: Parkdalechurch.ca. Kids’ Minute. Junior Church for kids up to 12 years old.
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Gatherings Matthew Video, Ch.8-10 • Today – 30 minutes long Potluck • Sunday, Mar. 25 @ 12:00pm
Prayer • Requests & Thanksgiving
Offering • Online givingnow availableon website: Parkdalechurch.ca
Kids’ Minute • Junior Church for kids up to 12 years old
Matthew: Following the Teacher 9:35-10:15 – Reaping God’s Harvest
Reaping God’s HarvestShow & Tell Jesus’s Words: Sermon on the Mount • Defined Discipleship, seeing with God’s eyes and obeying Him from the heart Jesus’s Works: Miracles, Healing • Confirmed His identity as God’s Son, and the authority of His teaching
Reaping God’s HarvestShow & Tell The New Law: 5 Blocks of Teaching • 5-7 – The call to discipleship • 10 – The call to ministry • 13 – Pictures of the Kingdom • 18 – Life in Community • 24-25 – Foreshadows of Final Judgment
Reaping God’s HarvestThe First Missionaries Exodus 19:6 – you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation 1 Peter 2:5 – you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood…
Matthew 10:18-20 • On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses. …for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you 2 Corinthians 5:20 • We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.
Reaping God’s HarvestThe First Missionaries “Your Kingdom Come,Your Will Be Doneon Earth as it is in Heaven”
Reaping God’s HarvestThe First Missionaries Revelation 21:4-5 • ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!”
Reaping God’s HarvestPray & Gather, Sow & Water Romans 11:36 • For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen
Reaping God’s HarvestPray & Gather, Sow & Water John 17:23 • …so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Reaping God’s HarvestPray & Gather, Sow & Water 1 Corinthians 1:26, 31 • Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth…let the one who boasts boast in the Lord
Reaping God’s HarvestPray & Gather, Sow & Water 1 Peter 3:15 • Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,
Reaping God’s HarvestPray & Gather, Sow & Water 1 Peter 3:15 • Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,
Reaping God’s HarvestLetting God Make it Grow 1 Corinthians 3:7 • So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
Reaping God’s HarvestLetting God Make it Grow Mark 4:26-28 • “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain…”
Reaping God’s HarvestLetting God Make it Grow From Compulsive to Contemplative • Solitude – Connecting with God ->unity • Silence – Listening to God -> speak • Stillness – Receiving from God ->give