Gathering Recap 11.15.09
Aarik Danielsen and his beard, who is currently in the elder process, preached from Luke this week. He did a great job and God is really using him in Karis. Luke Daugherty led worship and the band rocked as usual. Following are the Liturgy and Sermon notes.
Mike and Brady jammin
The Call
Palm Sunday Call to Worship K 1.2.5
The Worship Sourcebook - Luke Daugherty
The Praises
At Your Feet (Tim Smith)
The Gospel
Lead Us Back (Bobby Gilles, Brooks Ritter)
Matthew 16:21-23
Profession of Faith 3.6.11 - The Worship Sourcebook (Phil. 2) - Luke Daugherty
Man of Sorrows (Words: Philip Bliss; Music: The Mars Hillbillies
Colossians 2:13-15 - ESV
God is With Us (Words: Jeremy Quillo; Music: Jeremy Quillo & Dustin Neeley
The Peace
Passing the Peace
Welcome - Luke 19:28-40 - Kevin Larson
The Word
Jesus in the Margins - Aarik Danielsen
The Supper
Hosanna in the Highest (Jeremy Quillo)
Luke 1:68-69 - ESV
The Prayer
The prayers of the church - Aaron Harris, Kevin Larson
The Offering
God Who Saves - Aaron Senseman
Receiving the Offering
The Sending
Luke 9:23 - Luke Daugherty
Jesus: Our Triumphant yet Humble King (Luke 19:28-40)
The Entering King (v. 28-36)
1. True Sovereignty
2. Humility and Peace
a. Zechariah 9:9 - Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, you king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey .
3. Power
4. An important tension
a. Bock - “He is a humble king for now, as he faces the cross and as the church lives in light of his example. A day will come, however, when he will be the glorious Son of Man on the clouds, ruling with great power and fully exercising it. At that time, Jesus will hold a scepter and a sword.”
Responses to the King’s entrance (v.35-40)
1. Authentic worship (v.35-38)
2. Shallow, misguided worship (37-40)
3. Outright rejection (39)
4. The King’s own affirmation (40)
How will we respond?
1. The claims are exaggerated (treat Jesus as a good man)
2. Jesus is king of a kingdom we can stomach (turn Jesus into an idol
Prothero (American Jesus)
“To hold Jesus up to the mirror of America culture is to conduct a Rorschach test of ever-changing national sensibilities. What Americans have seen in him has been an expression of their own hopes and fears - a reflection not simply of some ‘wholly other’ divinity but also of themselves and their nation.”
Jesus is who He says He is, no more/no less (Worship Him in spirit and truth)
1. For the church (Universal)
a. Humility, peace, sacrifice, suffering, service
2. For the church (Karis)
a. Embrace Expository preaching
b. Embrace musical worship that focuses on God’s attributes and involvement in the world
c. Be a celebrating church
3. For individual believers
a. Be theologians
b. Be worshipers