Congregational Worship
Worthy of Your Name
Welcome & Call to Worship
2 Corinthians 9:8-11
Congregational Worship
Cornerstone
How Great Thou Art
Testimony and Prayer
Congregational Worship
Yet Not I But Through Christ in Me
“Givers and Takers”
Mark 12:38-44
Coming now to the end of Jesus’ public teaching ministry we have one of the most radical contrasts in Scripture. On one side – the self-promoting, manipulating, immoral scribes … and on the other side – one poor widow. This widow’s gift is one of the most powerful teaching moments in the Gospels. Jesus calls His disciples to come watch what a life fully surrendered to God looks like. She is living the kind of “deny-yourself discipleship” and “servant-of-all sacrifice” that all who follow Jesus are to live!
Two ways to respond to the giving heart of Jesus …
- The Ugly Side of Self-Absorbed Spirituality (v38-40)(MULTILINE)
- The Beautiful Simplicity of Spiritual Sacrifice (v41-44) (MULTILINE)
∙ For Spiritual Conversation: Talk about your relationship to material things. Do you give “out of” or “after”? Having been given everything by God, name one way you can give more generously.