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.
Critically Think
- Read Revelation 18:1-24, re-read verses 9-24 as you look for these observations.
- List and consider each group of people listed in verses 9-19 and their responses.
- How are their responses similar to one another? How are they different?
- What is unique about the merchants description?
- What is heaven's response to the great city? Why is that according to the text?
- What is no longer found in the city?
- What is found remaining in the great city?
Prayerfully Meditate
- What do each of these groups of people represent about the city and its influence and wealth?
- How do the people respond to the destruction of the city? How are they not responding?
- How easy is it to become entangled in the world's lust for power, wealth, material goods, and other services? What is the danger?
- Why do we want to rejoice over the destruction of a city, specifically this city?
Intentionally Act
- How do you react when you lose wealth, material goods, or authority and power in situations?
- Which economy are you find value in, the world's or God's? How does this passage help illuminate which system you value?
- How does this passage inform our thinking on walking through the great commission, will it happen through government and laws, or through individual evangelism and discipleship, building churches now? Which side do you engage in daily?
- Click the links below to find the lyrics and recordings of the songs planned for our gathering this Sunday; learn the songs, study the lyrics and sing them with others.
- 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: elder prayer & scripture reading; Bret Capranica: teaching.
Songs for Sunday
Morning Gathering
- Come Praise and Glorify (sheetmusic)
- Nothing But the Blood (sheetmusic)
- He Will Hold Me Fast (sheetmusic)
- Our Only Hope Is You (sheetmusic)
- Rejoice the Lord Is King (sheetmusic)
Evening Gathering
Lyrics
Lyrics Morning Gathering - October 12, 2025 by Summit Woods Baptist Church