["Pomp and Circumstance"]
Let's go to song number 310, Book Friends of Jesus.
It's going to be song number 310 this morning.
["Book Friends of Jesus"]
Sweet, sweet Lord, we heard
We come, we come, follow thee
And we see where the good friends call
We plead us to thee
The praise of Jesus
That gave the back we hold
We will follow steps of Jesus
Where ever they go
Where they belong
The mountains seeking peace she knew
For all of us who first counted
There we will be
The praise of Jesus
That gave the back we hold
We will follow the steps of Jesus
Where ever they go
If they think through the temple
Only preaching the land
More and more, more and more
We serve the other
The praise of Jesus
That gave the back we hold
We will follow the steps of Jesus
Where ever they go
Where they pass, where they rise
He sees us searching his arms
We know there's steps of Jesus
Saying that he's gone
For the praise of Jesus
That gave the back we hold
We will follow the steps of Jesus
Where ever they go
Alright, this time we're going to go to our announcements.
If you'd like a bulletin, just go ahead and slip up your hand.
We'll bring one. As always, we're going to have our service time in the upper left hand side.
We meet every Sunday at ten thirty AM, as all of you well know at this point.
And then Thursdays at seven. We'll be in a new book of the Bible.
So we finished Acts chapter, well the book of Acts last week.
We were in Acts 28 last week, so we're starting a brand new book of the Bible this week.
And I'm not going to tell you what it is. If you want to know what it is, you know the deal here.
You've got to show up and find out. Also tonight we'll be back here at
five thirty PM as well. We've got the church wide soul winning, the regional soul winning,
the salvations and baptisms below that. And I put a little
I guess they call that a popper or a puppet there next to our salvation numbers
for the year. Because thus far this is the most
I think the last, the second highest number was a twenty twenty.
And it was two hundred exactly. So that's pretty easy to remember.
Right? Two zero, two zero, two zero zero.
But I remember that because we got our last salvation at the
I always want to say Outback, but we're better than that.
We're better than that.
I always want to say Outback, but we're better than that.
Longhorn. Longhorn was the waitress and I believe it was brother Rob from Canada.
Preached. We were at one ninety nine.
Maybe it was the Sunday night service. I was like man we could just get one more.
And brother Rob was totally impromptu just as he does.
Preaches the gospel to this waitress and she got saved. I have no doubt about it.
So always remember that one. But you know it's great to see those numbers
continue to go up on the salvation's. So thanks everybody
for the hard work of going out there and just being consistent. And I am going to be
preaching a little bit about so many this morning. Kind of not related
to that, but just kind of a coincidence there. But anyway I just wanted
to point that out so that's something to you know should be an encouragement to us.
Also don't forget this morning obviously we're having a farewell party
if you're wondering what all the picnic tables and the trays are out for.
There will be food in those trays later. I'm thinking this is a really lame potluck.
They play pretend over here or something. They're not doing that.
It's really hard to have food. We're having Juanitos.
They're probably going to start cooking it up here real soon. But when service is over
there will be some carne asada, some rice, some beans, and a few other things
perhaps to go ahead and enjoy. And I've ordered plenty so please
stick around and enjoy taco or two or three or four.
I ordered plenty there. I ordered enough like fifty people.
So please help us eat this food. I want to see this stuff you're eating.
I know some of you I don't have to worry about.
I wanted to eat a lot but not that much.
Go ahead and help yourself. Pile it high this morning.
And then also below that there is the Christmas caroling up in the church in Tempe.
If anyone's interested in that we've got the details. It's this Tuesday.
Quick note on the fact that we will not be posting our
Christmas Eve candlelight service this year as we normally do. But we will
be having our normal scheduled services that Sunday.
Christmas Eve Sunday next week same time
10-3 a.m., 5-3 p.m. and we will be having cookies and cocoa
after the evening service. And then also below that
another reminder that if you have not sent me your email information
then you're not going to get your yearbook photo.
I need to have that. You can't say well I sent it to you one time years ago.
That's not going to work. I can't go through all of that.
It would just be a lot easier if everybody would just send me that information and say hey I got a yearbook
photo. Where is it? I'll get it to you.
So that's it for announcements. Also don't forget we're going to have one on Sunday coming up in a couple of weeks.
But that will be it for our announcements this morning. Let's go ahead and sing
one more song before we get into preaching. And we're going to go over to song number
323.
Song number 323, More About Jesus.
Song number 323.
More about Jesus
More about
Jesus Lord I know
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And again, emphasis on go. The first two letters of
gospel are G-O go. We don't
have to bring people here to get them saved.
This is the house of the Living God. The pillar and ground of the truth.
God has given us preachers and teachers and pastors and apostles
and others for the teaching, for the perfecting of the saints.
We're here to teach the saints this morning.
You know we're here to teach the Saints this morning go get them saved out there, then you know bring them here
We'll baptize them, and we'll teach them, but let's do our evangelism out there
It's effective
It works, and it's biblical
You could say well
I don't I don't agree with you that it's something that bus ministries and these other things are on biblical fine
But you can't sit here and tell me that going out two by two is on the on biblical
There's it is biblical. I mean we're seeing out of the mouth of Jesus himself go
Two by two preach the gospel pray that God would send forth laborers into his harvest
You can preach the gospel any time any place anywhere and in fact you're commanded to let's go ahead and close the word prayer
Dear Lord again. Thank you for the great privilege that we have or to be
ambassadors for Christ to be soul winners that we have this treasure and earth and vessels and Lord the week we can go out and
Preach to whomever we like Lord if they'll if they'll hear and receive us Lord
Then they can be saved and or that we don't have to target any one demographic that the Gospels for everybody
what I prayed helped this church to continue to be a light for the gospel a
powerhouse for soul winning in this community we ask in Christ's name Amen
All right, we'll go ahead and we're gonna sing another song
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