Sunday July 3, 2022
Welcome:
Our mission is to “Love God, Love People, and Awaken a Movement”
Bathrooms are in the entrance room
Missio Communities have begun: If you want to be a part of one let Jared know after worship
To give to Missio visit www.missiochurchseattle.org/giving
If you would like prayer for any reason, get in touch with Jared at Jared@missiochurchseattle.org
Bathrooms are in the Basement
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Camping Trip:
Our Annual camping trip will be Aug 19-21.
We have 6 sites reserved at Colonial Creek Campground South which is on beautiful Diablo Lake
Mark your calendars & sign up with Jared in order to reserve your spot.
we can have up to 50 people this year
Missio is paying for the sites. All you need to do is plan your meals.
Kids Space & Classes:
We will have our kids classes in the back hall of this upstairs space
Kids Will be dismissed after worship
Prayer 1:
Set free from Sin- John 8:31-38
31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
33 They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”
34 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.35 Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me,because you have no room for my word. 38 I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you are doing what you have heard from your father.”
What does it mean to abide in Jesus' word?
How have you experienced freedom from sin in your relationship with Jesus?
Pray that we would be set free from sin (as individuals and as a community).
Kids Dismissed:
Prayer 2:
Set free from the Law- Galatians 5:1-6
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised,Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
Why was the law not freeing?
What does "faith working through love" look like?
Pray that we wouldn't be enslaved by religious practices, but set free to love God and love others.
Prayer 3:
Communion: Set free to do what's Right - Romans 6:15-23
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. 20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
What does it mean to be slaves to righteousness?
Taking these passages together, how would you describe freedom as a follower of Christ?
In what ways is this similar to the American concept of freedom and in what ways is it different?
Pray that we would use our freedom to work for the freedom of our city, nation, and world.
Benediction:
Now that we've encountered Jesus anew:
May we go and sin no more,
May our spiritual eyes be opened,
May we be healed and work for the healing of others,
May we bring good news to the poor and hurting,
And may we go forth in the peace of God's presence.
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 3:20-21