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
- Read 1 Thess 5:12-22 again.
- How should this command in v. 16 impact you, especially in light of the thrust of 1 Thess to “excel still more” or “grow in what you know”?
- What can you do to cultivate biblical joy in your heart?
- What excuses or exceptions are we tempted to make to this broad, persistent command? Seek to repent of your thinking in this regard and ask the Lord to conform your thinking to Scripture.
- How might this command impact your discipleship of someone? Seek to implement this verse in a discipleship context this week.
- How might this command impact evangelistic conversations? Seek to implement this verse in an evangelistic context this week.
- Rejoice!
- 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: Joel Conrad: music; Sam Karl: Elders' prayer & scripture reading; Bret Capranica: teaching.
Songs for Sunday
- All Creatures of Our God and King (sheetmusic)
- How Rich a Treasure We Possess (sheetmusic)
- When Trials Come (sheetmusic)
- Psalm 62 (sheetmusic)
- Jesus, I Am Resting (sheetmusic)
Lyrics
Lyrics Morning Gathering - ... by Summit Woods Baptist Church