This week's lessons: Acts 8:26-40, Psalm 22:25-31, 1 John 4:7-21, John 15:1-8
This
week's lessons: Acts
8:26-40, Psalm
22:25-31, 1
John 4:7-21, John
15:1-8
Emmanuel Community Church
Inter-generational Lectionary Study;
Sundays from 10:0 to 10:45 in the Board Room
Opening
Opening prayer by leader, or invite another participant to pray, or use:
Almighty God, who has caused all Holy Scripture to be written for our learning, open our ears and hearts today to learn from your word and from one another, we ask in Jesus' Name. Amen
Set the calendar-clock to the right date. Lent is the season of preparation for the great feast of Easter. We spend 40 days in self-denial and solemn prayer, readying our hearts and minds to celebrate Christ's great Easter victory over Death and Sin.
Today, the Gospel reviews for us Jeremiah's prophecy of the New Covenant
Review of Last Week
What was the sermon on? - The “Running of the Sheep” in Idaho
What was the Gospel lesson? - The good shepherd knows his sheep
Did anyone have any insights about...
1.How does belonging to, and recognizing the voice of Jesus, shape our life as a church?
2.Who are the "other sheep" that do not belong to the same "fold"?
3.Who and what are the thieves, bandits, strangers, and wolves that threaten you as a fold?
4.How often do you feel that you fail to recognize Jesus' voice?
5.What sort of "abundant life" does this "beautiful" shepherd bring to the life of our church?
Memory Passage
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
“Pew-work” is like Home-work, except that it is done in the pews, instead of being done at home. Because it is focussed on the readings (as the sermon, presumably, also is) it can be done during the sermon to help the listener concentrate. Or, it can be done while waiting for everyone else to finish their communion. It isn't done during prayers, or hymns, or the readings, because
During Prayers, we pray
During Hymns, we sing
During the Readings, we listen
Middle-school Students' Pew-work
Elementary-School Students' Pew-work
Next Week: Acts 10:44-48, Psalm 98, 1 John 5:1-6, John 15:9-17