Prepare your heart for our Sunday Morning Gathering by looking through these suggestions that will assist you in making the most of our time together.
You will find tangible suggestions for putting scripture to action in your personal life and in our corporate body, links to the songs we will sing, and lyrics for you to prepare for our corporate singing.
Please see the Preparing for the Sermon post for suggestions in thinking more critically through the passage, meditating more intently on the text, and prayerfully seeking wisdom to deepen your understanding of the passage to be preached this Sunday.
Intentionally Act
- Recognize the difference between those not inheriting the kingdom of God and those that do are only different by the Spirit of God and name of the Lord Jesus Christ. It has nothing to do with anything anyone does. Let that impact you in how you view yourself, our church and the outside world. Our work is to diligently preserve the holiness in ourselves individually and corporately through the Spirit of God and the Word of God. Our work is also to share the Word of God with those we see not inheriting the kingdom of God and pray for the Spirit of God to work in them as well.
- Look for and act on intentional relationships within the church to build discipleship, partnership in the gospel, and growing the body of Christ.
- Earnestly look for sin in your own life and seek to kill it. Look for unrepentant sin in our church and seek to kill it and restore fellowship in the body.
- Pray for wisdom for the elders and the church as we think through how to implement this teaching together. Pray that the Lord would use this teaching to expose sin and wrong attitudes in our midst that we might be reconciled to one another in the grace of God.
- Click the links below to find the lyrics and recordings of the songs planned for our gathering this Sunday; practice the songs, study the lyrics and sing together.
- Pray for those leading our corporate gathering this week and for the Holy Spirit’s work as the Word of God is further explained and applied: Dawson Bryant: music; Rob Stouffer: Elders' prayer and Scripture reading; Bret Capranica: teaching.
Songs for Sunday
Lyrics
Lyrics Morning Gathering - March 19, 2017 by Summit Woods Baptist Church on Scribd