Worship Service 11/28/2021

Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Text: Acts 18:1-18a

Theme: 6 Things God Gives to Keep Us Going and Growing

Notes:

Six Things:

1. Faithfulness
2. Friends
3. Fellowship with Christ
4. Fruit
5. Favor

Fruit

• God gives us the privilege of serving others
• Service is a privilege–not just a duty
• Just as every member in a healthy human body is contributing to the good of the body, the same is true of a healthy church body
• Service is:
  • Hard work
  • Inconvenient
  • Humbling
  • Honoring to God
  • Loving your neighbor
• The majority of God’s harvest is brought in by everyday, unnamed servants
  • Example: 1 Samuel 25:14-17, the servant who informed Abigail

Favor, aka Grace

• God meets the needs of those in His service
  • Matt 6:33, “Seek first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added to you.”
• God divinely ordains what is best for His servants
  • Paul just happened to be dragged into court before Gallio, a man known to be a just judge who could not be bought

Live It Out!

1. Thank God for the privilege of serving Him and serving others
2. Thank God for the favor that supplies our physical and spiritual needs
3. Where do I start?
   1. Start serving and see what God does