Worship Preparation for March 14, 2021

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Call to Worship: Psalm 134 (read responsively)
Confession of Faith: The Apostles’ Creed
Hymns and Psalter Selections:

  1. #103E O Come, My Soul, Bless Thou the Lord

  2. #503 From Depths of Woe I Raise to Thee

  3. #538 Take My Life, and Let It Be

Sermon: Mark 3:13-19

Discussion Questions:

  1. What is the purpose of Christ choosing his twelve disciples?

  2. Consider the men Christ called to be his disciples. Which of them do you know well, and which of them should you get to know? What are some of their particular characteristics?

  3. What means did Christ employ to prepare for the choosing of his disciples? What does that teach you?

  4. What is the mission that Christ gave his disciples? Are any of them your mission today? How?

Applications: Christ uses ordinary people to advance his kingdom.

  1. If we know Christ, we are His disciples, called by Him by divine appointment.  It was not an accident.  This calling requires that we follow Him and emulate Him with our lives.

  2. We do not learn to follow Christ in a vacuum.  We learn it through the testimony of the Church, first from the apostles that Christ appointed and then through the fellowship we enjoy in the local church where Christ appoints elders to guide, train, disciple the flock of Christ.

  3. Emulate godly people – those that are not only learned in the truth of God’s Word but those who also obey it.

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