: 10-12 Bread Ministry/6-7:30 Dinner Huddle Joy study
10 Worship
***Please note: Due to staffing shortage our brunch scheduled for has been cancelled***
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Good Morning Disciples and Apostles of Jesus! Amen! We are students learning from our Rabbi, Jesus, and empowered and sent by the Holy Spirit to be the bringers of Good News to a world desperately in need of it. We are sent as we are and grow as we go into Christlikeness and our purposes. We grow into the people He made us to be and in doing His purposes for us better and more consistently. Amen! Before He ascended to heaven, Jesus commissioned His disciples (students) to go make reproducing disciples as His apostles (sent ones). We are called to the same as His disciples and apostles. We need Him and each other to go produce good and lasting fruit and as we do we build treasure in heaven. Help us Lord!
Our Daily Bread focuses on the commission to go and make disciples in our area, region and to the ends of the earth. They use Acts 1 which speaks into when the end will come. Jesus said to them don't worry about that. No one knows when. But instead be about His Father's business of expanding His Kingdom by making reproducing disciples. Talk to God about your call to learn and go as you are and how he desires for you to grow as you do. Talk to Him about some teammates. Be one! Ask for wisdom for how to. Ask to have His eyes, ears, and heart and the want to to want to go. We are all created for such a time as this and custom gifted to fulfill our parts in His Good News Delivery Company. He knows us and our potential, calls us masterpieces and by name to go do what we are made to do . Prepare your hearts, team up and fallow His Spirit on this beautiful day to go and make disciples. Who is God leading you to? Ask and pray. Prepare, team up and go make disciples in the way of Jesus and be a harvester for His glory, apostle. Amen!
ODB:
The Ends of the Earth
You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses . . . to the ends of the earth. Acts 1:8
Kiribati, an island country in the Pacific Ocean, is the only nation in the world that exists in all four hemispheres of the globe. The thirty-three islands of Kiribati straddle both the equator and the 180th meridian. It’s also one of the most remote nations in the world.
We serve a God who cares about these remote places. As Jesus prepared His disciples for His return to heaven, He told them, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). “To the ends of the earth” is a call to take the message of the gospel to the world’s most isolated spots. But the call wasn’t limited to remote places only. It included their current location of Jerusalem and the nearby regions of Judea and Samaria.
After Jesus gave these parting words to His disciples, “He was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight” (v. 9). Two angels appeared and said, “This same Jesus . . . will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven” (v. 11).
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the most important news anyone can ever hear. The challenge for us as His ambassadors is to share that news. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can see that everyone—near and far—gets a chance to hear.
By Bill Crowder
REFLECT & PRAY
What does it mean to be Jesus’ witnesses “to the ends of the earth”? How does His command inspire you to share His love with others?
Dear Father, please give me a heart for those who don’t know You.
SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
The plan that Jesus gave His disciples in Acts 1:8 unfolds throughout the book of Acts. In the very next chapter, the power that Christ promised would come to all the disciples who were gathered in the upper room (2:1-12). Immediately after this event, Peter proclaimed to thousands of listening ears in Jerusalem the story of Jesus and the promise of salvation through Him (vv. 14-39). Over the next several chapters, Peter would go to the believing Samaritans who’d heard Philip’s preaching, and they too would receive the power of the Holy Spirit (8:4-17). Finally, the gentile centurion Cornelius and his family would respond to the gospel and, through Peter’s preaching, they and all who heard the message and believed in Christ—both Jews and gentiles—were marked with the Spirit (ch. 10). When we embrace His call and follow His plan, we can carry the message of the gospel wherever we go in the power of the Holy Spirit.
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