Mexborough Baptist Church Sunday 8th August 2021
Christ, the one who was and is and is to come, welcomes you. We honour and glorify the giver of wisdom, counsel, knowledge, and joy. Come let us worship as we sing our praises to God in the hymn 'Let Us Build A House' click on the link
Prayer
O wondrous God, we have gathered together once again to celebrate your presence among us, to praise you, and to thank you
for all you have given us. May this time of worship strengthen and refresh us, and fill us with such joy that we cannot help but share it with everyone around us. Though we are very different people, with many different talents and gifts, make us one in your Spirit, that we may be your ministers in the world. Amen.
Today we welcome Clive Burnard, the Regional Minister for South Yorkshire from the Yorkshire Baptist Association. He is with us to help us begin to explore how we as Mexborough Baptist Church can work together through the challenges of this new season, post-covid restrictions, Denise's retirement and beyond. Clive is sharing with us some of the New Testament's descriptions of the church in general and how that works out in practice, leading us into thinking more specifically about our own church. Below are the slides from Clive's presentation; please read them carefully and consider the questions. Before you do that please read 1 Peter 2:4-12 and 1 Corinthians 12:12 - 13:1.
In the Bible, Ezekiel 34:26-27 reads “I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing. The trees will yield their fruit and the ground will yield its crops; the people will be secure in their land. They will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them." As the church, the Body of Christ on this hill, Windhill, we desire the surrounding area to know the outpouring of God's blessing. We need the showers of blessing to fall on us and flow out from us to the people around. We now watch a video which expresses the joy of showers of blessing and then we respond in a prayer for God to pour out his blessing as we sing a hymn written in the 1800′s by Daniel Webster Whittle. (click on the links)
Benediction
May you, being rooted and established in love, have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:17b-21
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