April 25, 2010. Days of Elijah These are the days of Elijah, Declaring the word of the Lord And these are the days of your servant, Moses Righteousness

April 25, 2010

Days of Elijah

These are the days of Elijah,Declaring the word of the Lord

And these are the days of your servant, Moses

Righteousness being restoredAnd though these are days of great trials

Of famine and darkness and sword;Still we are the voice in the desert crying

“Prepare ye the way of the Lord”

Robin Mark ©1996 Daybreak Music LTD CCLI #1181771

Behold he comes, riding on the clouds.Shining like the sun at the trumpet call;So lift your voice, it’s the year of jubilee.

And out of Zion’s hill salvation comes

And these are the days of Ezekiel,

The dry bones becoming as flesh

And these are the days of your servant, David

Rebuilding a temple of praise

And these are the days of the harvest,

The fields are white in the world

And we are your laborers in your vineyard

Declaring the word of the Lord

Behold he comes, riding on the clouds.Shining like the sun at the trumpet call;So lift your voice, it’s the year of jubilee.

And out of Zion’s hill salvation comes(2x)

Who wasAnd who is

And who is to come

April 25, 2010

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TODAY - Worship Service, 11:00am

TODAY - Worship Service, 7:00pm

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Wed, Apr 28th - New Testament Class, 1:00-3:30pm

Thurs, Apr 29th - Systematic Theology, 7:00-9:30pm

Sat, May 1st – Men’s Fight Club, 9:00am-5:00am

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Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens,your faithfulness to the skies.

Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,your justice like the great deep.

Psalm 36:5-6

All My Lifelong

All my lifelong I had panted

For a drink from some cool spring

That I hoped would quench the burning

Of the thirst I felt within

Hallelujah! He has found me

Whom my soul so long has craved

Jesus satisfies all my longings

Through His blood I now am saved.

CCLI #1181771

Feeding on the husks around me

Till my strength was almost gone

Longed my soul for something better

Only still to hunger on





Poor I was and sought for riches

Something that would satisfy

But the dust I gathered ‘round me

Only mocked my soul’s sad cry





Well of water ever springing

Bread of life so rich and free

Untold wealth that never faileth

My Redeemer is to me









Hungry

Hungry, I come to You,

For I know You satisfy

I am empty but I know

Your love does not run dry

Kathryn Scott ©1999 Vineyard CCLI #1181771

So I wait for You,

So I wait for You

I’m falling on my knees, offering all of me.

Jesus, You’re all this heart is living for.

Broken, I run to You,

For Your arms are open wide

I am weary, but I know

Your touch restores my life

So I wait for You,

So I wait for You



So I wait for You,

So I wait for You

So I wait for You,

So I wait for You



Psalm 25

Good and Upright are You, LordYou teach us, sinners, in Your ways

(2x)

You guide the humble in what is rightAnd instruct them in Your ways

(2x)

Words and Music by Joe Day © 2002 Mars Hill Church CCLI #1181771

All Your ways are loving, faithfulLord to those who seek Your face

(2x)

You give grace to the humble heartedAnd instruct them in Your ways

(2x)

Good and Upright are You, LordYou teach us, sinners, in Your ways

(2x)

You guide the humble in what is rightAnd instruct them in Your ways

(2x)

All Your ways are loving, faithfulLord to those who seek Your face

God of Wonders

Lord of all creation,Of water earth and sky

The heavens are Your tabernacle,Glory to the Lord on high.

Mark Byrd and Steve Hindalong ©2000 Pyanagrin Music CCLI #1181771

God of wonders beyond our galaxy,You are holy, holy

The universe declares Your majesty,You are holy, holy

Lord of heaven and earthLord of heaven and earth

Early in the morning,I will celebrate the light

When I stumble in the darkness,I will call Your name by night




Hallelujah to the Lord of heaven and earthHallelujah to the Lord of heaven and earthHallelujah to the Lord of heaven and earth




Blessed Be Your Name

Blessed be Your name

In the land that is plentiful

Where Your streams of abundance flow


Matt and Beth Redman - © 2002 Thankyou Music CCLI #1181771

And blessed be Your name

When I'm found in the desert place

Though I walk through the wilderness


Every blessing You pour out

I'll turn back to praise

And when the darkness closes in

Lord still I will say:

Blessed be the name of the Lord



Blessed be Your glorious name


When the sun's shining down on me

When the world's all as it should be


And blessed be Your name

On the road marked with suffering

Though there's pain in the offering


Every blessing You pour out

I'll turn back to praise

And when the darkness closes in

Lord still I will say:





You give and take away

You give and take away

My heart will choose to say

Lord blessed be Your name





GratitudeSend some rain, would You send some rain? 'Cause the earth is dry and needs to drink

again

And the sun is high and we are sinking in the shade

Would You send a cloud, thunder long and loud?

Let the sky grow black and send some mercy down

Surely You can see that we are thirsty and afraid; but maybe not, not today

Maybe You'll provide in other ways—and if that's the case ...

We'll give thanks to You with gratitude for lessons learned in how to thirst for You

How to bless the very sun that warms our face if You never send us rain

Daily bread, give us daily bread; bless our bodies, keep our children fed

Fill our cups, then fill them up again tonight; wrap us up and warm us through

Tucked away beneath our sturdy roofs, let us slumber safe from danger's view this time

Or maybe not, not today; maybe You'll provide in other ways. And if that's the case …

Nichole Nordeman © 2006 Sparrow Records CCLI #1181771

We'll give thanks to You with gratitude; a lesson learned to hunger after You

That a starry sky offers a better view; if no roof is overhead

And if we never taste that bread

Oh, the differences that often are between

Everything we want and what we really need

So grant us peace, Jesus, grant us peace; move our hearts to hear a single

beat

Between alibis and enemies tonight; or maybe not, not today

Peace might be another world away; and if that's the case ...

We'll give thanks to You with gratitude

For lessons learned in how to trust in You

That we are blessed beyond what we could ever dream

In abundance or in need

And if You never grant us peace ...

But, Jesus, would You please ...

What: A one-day men’s conference *sponsored by Antioch Community

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When: 9am- 5pm, Saturday May 1st

Where: Ukrainian Event Center (Northeast Minneapolis)

Price: $25/person

Aim: To mobilize men to love Jesus, fight sin, lead well, and

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Planting New Churches


1. What is Church Planting?



2.What does the Bible say about Church Planting




3.Does it, in reality, work?




3.Does it, in reality, work?

4. What are the obstacles to Church Planting?





Church:

What makes up a healthy local church?

1. Scriptural Authority

1 Timothy 3:14, 1514Although I hope to come to you soon, I am writing you these instructions so that, 15if I am delayed, you will know

how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which

is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.


2. Corporate Worship

1 Corinthians 11:17-2217In the following directives I have no praise

for you, for your meetings do more harm than good. 18In the first place, I hear that

when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and to some

extent I believe it. 19No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of

you have God’s approval. 20When you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat, 21for as you eat, each of you goes ahead without waiting for anybody else.

One remains hungry, another gets drunk. 22Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in?

Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you for

this? Certainly not!


3. Covenanted Community

Acts 2:42-4742They devoted themselves to the

apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43Everyone was filled

with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44All the believers were together and had everything in

common. 45Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and

ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord

added to their number daily those who were being saved.


4. Biblical Leadership

Titus 1:5The reason I left you in Crete was that you might straighten out what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every

town, as I directed you.


5. Mission

John 20:21Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you!

As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”


6. Baptism & Lord’s Supper

Matthew 28:16-2016Then the eleven disciples went to

Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. 18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and

on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to

obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always,

to the very end of the age.”

1 Corinthians 11:17-22 (Lord’s Supper)



Planting:



Planting:

An intentional effort to start a new church that is:

1. Self-governing: Autonomous2.Self-supporting: Sufficient

3.Self-propagating: Reproducing


2. What does the Bible say about Church Planting?



Matthew 16:18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will

not overcome it.



Matthew 18:15-1715“If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. 16But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ 17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church;

and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.



Matthew 28:16-2016Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the

mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the

Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded

you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”



John 20:21

Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”



Acts 8:1b-4a

1On that day a great persecution broke out against the church at Jerusalem, and all except

the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. 2Godly men buried Stephen and

mourned deeply for him. 3But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison. 4 Those who had been scattered preached

the word wherever they went.



Acts 9:1a

Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples.



Acts 13:1-3

In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” 3 So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed

their hands on them and sent them off.



1 Corinthians 3:5-6

5What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to

believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but

God made it grow.



Titus 1:5

The reason I left you in Crete was that you might straighten out what was left unfinished and

appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.



Romans 15:17-24

17Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God. 18I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done— 19by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit. So

from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ. 20It has always been my

ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s

foundation.



Romans 15:17-24

21Rather, as it is written:

“Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.” [Isaiah

52:15]

22This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you. 23But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many

years to see you, 24I plan to do so when I go to Spain.


3. Does it in reality work?



“The single most effective evangelistic methodology under

heaven isplanting new churches.”

~ C. Peter Wagner, “Church Planting For a Greater Harvest,” Page 7.



“The vigorous, continual planting of new congregations is the single most crucial strategy for 1) the numerical growth of the Body of Christ in any

city, and 2) the continual corporate renewal and revival of the existing churches in a city. Nothing

else--not crusades, outreach programs, para-church ministries, growing mega-churches, congregational consulting, nor church renewal processes--will have the consistent impact of dynamic, extensive church

planting. This is an eyebrow raising statement. But to those who have done any study at all, it is not even

controversial.”

~ Tim Keller, Why Plant Churches, February 2002.


4. What are the obstacles to church planting?

Four Myths and a Hard Reality




Myth #1 – “America is Already Reached!”

• There are 120 million secular, non-Christianpeople in the United States.


• The U.S. Is the largest mission field in the Western Hemisphere.



• The U.S. Is the fifth largest mission field on earth.




• 92-98% of Canadians are functionally unchurched.




• 92-98% of Canadians are functionally unchurched.

• North America is the only continent in the world were Christianity is not growing.

~ George Hunter, “The Rationale for a Culturally Relevant Worship Service,” Journal of the American Society of Church Growth, Worship an Growth and Ed Stetzer, Church

Planting Course notes, March 2009 TEDS.




Myth #2 – “We need to rescue the dying churches!”

• 80-85% of American churches are on the downside of the church life cycle.


• 3,500-4,000 churches close each year.



• 72 churches close each week…~ Win Arn, “Planting Growing Churches.”




And they probably should!




And they probably should!

According to one study, only 1% will ever turn around to be thriving again.

~ Ed Stetzer, Doc Min Course, TEDS, March 2009



Four Myths and a Fact

Myth #3 – “We need more Mega-Churches, not more new churches!”

• Churches under 3 years of age win an average of 10 people to Christ per year for every 100

church members.


church members.

• Churches 3-15 years of age win an average of 5 people per year for every 100 church members.


church members.

• Churches 3-15 years of age win an average of 5 people per year for every 100 church members.

• Churches over 15 years of age win an average of 3 people per year for every 100 church

members.

~ Bruce Mcnichol, quoted in Ed Stetzer’s book, Missional Church Planting, p. 8



Four Myths and a Fact

Myth #4 – “Plant churches, but NIMBY!!”

In 1900, there were 28 churches for every 10,000 Americans.










~ North Amercian Mission Board Report, 2009




The Hard Reality:Church Planting works. But it always hurts.

Are you willing to live a lifewith “no reservations”?

Are you willing to live a lifewith “no reservations”?

Are we willing to live a lifewith “no reservations”?

Informational Desserts next Sunday, April 25th

Fireside Room

• After 1st Service (10:40am)• After 2nd Service (12:40pm)• After 3rd Service (8:40pm)

A night of Dreaming about Church Planting

w/ Scott Thomas, Director of Acts 29Friday, April 30th, 7-9pmHope Community ChurchFireside Room (tentative)

King of Glory

Who is this King of glory

who pursues me with His love

And haunts me with each hearing

of His softly spoken words

My conscience, a reminder

of forgiveness that I need


who offers it to me

Mac Powell ©2000 New spring Publishing, Inc. CCLI #1181771

Who is this King of angels,

O blessed Prince of Peace

Revealing things of heaven

and all its mysteries

My spirit's ever longing

for His grace in which to stand

Who is this King of glory,

Son of God and son of man

His name is Jesus,

precious Jesus

The Lord Almighty,

the King of my heart

The King of glory


with strength and majesty

And wisdom beyond measure,

the gracious King of kings

The Lord of Earth and Heaven,

the Creator of all things

Who is this King of glory?

He's everything to me.

His name is Jesus,

precious Jesus

The Lord Almighty,

the King of my heart

The King of glory

Please feel free to use the front of the sanctuary to be prayed for by

the Prayer Team or just for personal or group prayer.

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April 25, 2010. Days of Elijah These are the days of Elijah, Declaring the word of the Lord And these are the days of your servant, Moses Righteousness