Randy Roedell

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Sunday, June 7, 2020

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Introduction

While our option to gather at Madison Elementary on Sundays has been stopped for the time being, our mission as a church remains the same: we are a community of disciples who are being formed into the image of Jesus for the sake of the world.

Today we would like to lead you through a guided liturgy that will become our new normal for the next season of our church life together. In addition to being united in the gospel and relationships (which aren’t going away), another layer of connection can be found in our common practice and habits. By studying the same Bible passages, singing the same songs and repeating the same prayers, we are reminded of our connection that goes far beyond a common meeting space. Be creative and look for ways to incorporate children and adults of all ages who are in the room as readers and participants.

We hope that as you walk through this, you will be encouraged by God to place your hope in Him and to continue to seize the chances to be and make disciples wherever you are.

REALITY Kids Materials
Each week, our regular Reality Kids curriculum which includes age specific videos, lessons and activities is posted on Realm for you and your children to use. You can find all the information and links on Realm - HERE

Once you are done with the lesson, enjoy the video and activity with Kailyn below.

Gather Together

Scripture says we are to bless the Lord at all times. As His bride we have the unique opportunity to praise His name together and make much of Him. We read Psalm 34:1-3 to be reminded and encouraged to magnify the Lord wherever we are today.

Call to Worship

“I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad.

Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together!”

Sing Together

“Oh come, let us sing to the Lord;

    let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!

Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;

    let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!.” (Psalm 95:1-2, ESV)

Singing together is a gift that allows us to both rehearse what is true and to express the cry of our soul in a unique way. Feel free to either sing along with the following video or have someone in the room lead you on an instrument or a cappella.

“The Lion and the Lamb”
“Before the Throne of God Above”
“God is For Us”

PRAY TOGETHER

“Have mercy on me, O God,

   because of your unfailing love.

Because of your great compassion,

    blot out the stain of my sins.

Wash me clean from my guilt.

    Purify me from my sin.” (Psalm 51:1-2, NLT)

Corporate Confession & Assurance

We pray and confess in confidence that our Lord God will not refuse or cast out those who come trusting in the complete work and grace of Jesus Christ.  We recognize that our glorious God acts first. It is by acknowledging His gracious forgiveness that we are moved to repentance and confession.

Corporate Prayer of Confession

All:  Awesome and compassionate God,
You have loved us with unfailing, self-giving mercy,
but we have not loved you.
You constantly call us, but we do not listen.
You ask us to love, but we walk away from neighbors in need,
wrapped in our own concerns.
We condone evil, prejudice, warfare, and greed.
God of grace, as you come to us in mercy,
we repent in spirit and in truth,
admit our sin, and gratefully receive your forgiveness
through Jesus Christ our Redeemer. Amen.

Assurance of Pardon:

Hear and receive the Good News from Romans 8:31-32
“If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” 

And 2 Peter 1:3
“His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.”

LEARN TOGETHER

Discussion Q’s

  • What gets in the way of you seeking the interests of others- the world, the flesh the devil?

  • Do you fall into the trap of dividing people into categories- those who give, those who receive? Those who host, those who show up? If so, what kind of categories do you put yourself in? Is there something the Spirit wants to do about those?

  • Do you ever find yourself living out of a scarcity mindset instead of an abundance mindset

  • How have others demonstrated the gospel to you? How have you been served? Has the Spirit brought to mind creative ways you can seek the interests of others? Any specific people brought to mind? Unseen people?

  • How do the ideas of sacrifice and cost intersect with you? What role does joy have in this for you?

CELEBRATE & REMEMBER TOGETHER

If you have the means to celebrate communion together, please do so - remembering the broken body and shed blood of Jesus for you.

“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.” (1 Peter 3:18, NIV)

ADVENTURE TOGETHER

In this next section, begin to dream together: what does it look like for you to be the church this week where God has placed you? What does that look like on your block, your street, at your work, in your family and with your friendships?

We would love to hear your ideas and suggestions on how you can be the Body of Christ in this new and unprecedented time. Feel free to share your ideas by emailing the staff or by posting on Realm.

Benediction - Prayer of Sending

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” (2 Corinthians 13:14)

 Giving

Our giving at Reality is primarily an act of worship- a response to the generosity of Jesus towards us.

Prayer Requests/Needs

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If you are new to the Reality community and want more information to get connected:

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"Remembrance for the Journey" Psalm 124 (Psalms of Ascent)

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Psalm 124 assumes that we will have hard times and it implies the importance of memory; remembering that the Lord is on our side. There are any number of reasons we experience hard times. Sometimes it is simply because we live in a broken world. Other times it is because we have enemies who are coming after us. And sometimes, our hard times are caused by our own sin. This Psalm was written by David, a man who was well acquainted with hard times, caused by all three of these things. During this sermon, we use stories from David’s life as a vehicle to help us call to memory hard times we have experienced, with an invitation to bring those experiences under the influence of the Lord, who is on our side.

On Sunday, July 7th, there was opportunity for people to share experiences they have had, where the Lord was on their side. After someone shared, we corporately responded in song, "Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth."

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"Weeds and Wheat" Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 (Matthew: The Parables of the King)

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In the next section of Matthew's gospel, Jesus continues telling parables to those gathered around him. Keeping with the agricultural theme, Jesus compares the kingdom of heaven to a crop of good seed that has been sown in the field. However, in time, that good seed is intermixed with weeds sown by the enemy. This story about the weeds and the wheat gives us much to think about as we approach life in the Kingdom of God.

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"The Symphony of Your Soul" Song of Solomon 7:10 (Psalms: Then Sings My Soul)

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As we have gone through the sermon series "Then Sings My Soul", there have been several times when we have talked about how important it is for us to know what song is really in our hearts and then to sing it to God.  Sometime the song of our soul is one of joy and sometimes it one of despair.  Regardless, it is important for us to sing our song to God.  

However, I believe that there is a song that God wants to be the song of our soul all the time.  It's a song that he has designed to accompany our songs of joy, our songs of despair and all our songs in-between.  God wants to weave this song into our lives like the theme that flows through a symphony.  The song is expressed most beautifully in the Song of Songs 7:10 "I am my beloved's and his desire is for me."

The focus of the sermon is that God is wild for us.  He is passionately in love with us.  We are his, and his desire is for us.  That theme, that refrain, will shape and change every song that we sing if we let it infiltrate our soul.  So, as you consider your role in Sunday's gathering, consider the passionate, wild, incredible love of God for you and consider how you can invite those who participate in our worship gathering to consider and to experience that passionate, wild, incredible love as well.

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"Friendship" Proverbs 17:7; 27:5-6, 9 (Proverbs: The Way of Wisdom)

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This week our journey through Proverbs takes us to the topic of friendship.  So, to prepare for the sermon, I just went and checked my Facebook account and Mark Zuckerberg tells me that I have 420 friends.  Now, I am sure that most of you will agree, that Mark’s definition of “friend” leaves a bit to be desired.  In fact, I have Facebook friends, that I’ve never met and don’t really know at all. 
So if Facebook isn’t the last word on friendship, what more do we need to know?  Do we need to have friends?  If so, why? How do we develop them and how can they impact us? 
This week we want to listen to Lady Wisdom as she calls us to pursue friendships that go well below the surface and actually change who we are and how we experience the world.

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"Suffering for doing Good" 1 Peter 3:8-17 (Life in the Margins)

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After speaking specifically to wives and husbands, Peter now address all of us with gospel implications of how we should respond when we suffer for doing good.   In the immediate context of this passage, Peter twice points to the example of Christ as one who suffered for the sake of righteousness (chapters 2:21 & 3:18). As we consider Christ’s example of suffering, what things come to mind?  How might His example inform our response to the gospel as people who may increasingly find ourselves in the margins?

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