Atreju Preaching

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Good morning. Welcome to Southern Hills Baptist Church. Thank you for joining us today.

If you are a first-time guest with us, you will find a Connection Card in the pew rack in front of you. We would appreciate it if you would fill that out and place it in the offering plate. That gives us a record of your visit and allows us the opportunity of reaching out to you this week to answer any questions that you might have.

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The mission of SHBC “is to seek holiness as we covenant together as a faithful local body of Christ and to engage in the Great Commission by making disciples in our homes, our communities, and around the world.”

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If you are a guest with us, know that this is our weekly Family Worship service. Our children will remain with us for the entire service. We do have a nursery available for children under 4 just down the hall if you would like to use it.

Please stand as I read our Call to Worship.

Call To Worship

Isaiah 55:6–9 ESV

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Let us stand in awe of the transcendent God this morning—the One who sits high above us and rules the cosmos. Let us lift up our voices together as we respond to Him in worship. Please continue standing as we sing.

Opening Hymn

Scripture & Prayer: Pastor Daniel Philippians 2:5–11

Song #1

Missions Minute: Navigators

Today, our Missions Minute is about our Navigator partners Noah and Kayla Crowe. Noah and Kayla work with college students at Northwest Missouri State University. There, they seek to build discipleship groups—inviting students in to hear the gospel, and teaching them the value of 1 on 1 discipleship.

As a church that is trying to build that same culture of discipleship, we not only value the work that they are doing, but we support them financially by donating $50 to their ministry each month.

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Dale and I got the chance to visit with them earlier this week on our way to Midwestern Seminary. They have been busy in their men’s and women’s study groups and each of them have been working with disciples 1 on 1 and teaching their disciple how to make disciples. As they close out the school year, they are planning a missions trip with several of their students to Cambodia this Summer.

They have committed to another school year on campus before they consider pioneering a campus ministry somewhere else. Let us keep them in prayer for their ministry, the upcoming missions trip, and how God would direct them in the future.

If you are interested in encouraging them personally or would like to know how you can financially support their ministry, please let Pastor Atreju or me know and we will get you in contact with them.

Offering & Prayer

Song #2 (Great Are You Lord)

Lord’s Supper

Please be seated.

(beat)

As followers of Jesus, we are called to proclaim the story of God. For it is in that story that we share hope to those around us.

Not a wishing kind of hope.

But the promise kind of hope—by which the God who never breaks a promise brings complete restoration to all who are loyal to Him.

This is the One who is worth seeking after. But, in the words of Paul:

Romans 10:14 “How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?”

So, then, since Jesus is no longer here, we must be His witnesses—proclaiming the good news that the Messiah has come and has brought reconciliation to God’s human imagers.

The God who breathed life into us—the One who is so transcendent above us, came down to us in the person of Jesus—He became immanent, close and present with us.

The Creator came to live among His creation. He proved His power over the wind and sea and over every throne, and principality, and power. He conquered chaos and sin and death.

And then, Jesus has become what He always was—King over creation. He ascended to heaven and took the throne.

And so it is that we come before Him each week—gathering together as we were taught, to stand as the assembly of God the Father—bound and united by the Spirit for the work that Jesus has called us to.

Each time we come together in fellowship, we take in the Living Word, we are made one body over the supper, and we encourage each other for the work ahead. “Go and make disciples…”

As we encourage and exhort each other today, let us be built up by the proclamation of the Word—allowing God to shape our hearts into the image of Jesus and being equipped by the Holy Spirit to go and speak truth into the dark world around us.

And let us always keep our eyes on Jesus as we follow Him into the new kingdom.

We’re going to continue our reading about Jesus from the book of John. Today we will continue in chapter 6:

John 6:16–24 ESV

When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened. But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going. On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

At this time, I am going to have our ushers come forward. If you are a follower of Jesus, in that you have accepted Him as Savior, bowed to Him as King, and been baptized in obedience to His commandment, we invite you to participate with us. In just a moment, we will pass the plates. Please take a piece of bread and a cup and hold it until we take together.

Pass

Instruction from Jesus: Read 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

1 Corinthians 11:23–26 ESV

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Prayer of Blessing on bread and cup

Song #3

ATREJU PREACHING