BCC Classic Service 09-19-2021

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good morning everybody and welcome to broadway christian church glad you're here my name is rod larkins i lead the music here and those of you at home welcome thank you for joining us our our service lasts about an hour we're going to have pastor john clone who's going to be delivering the message we'll also hear from pastor kim bristol who's going to be stepping us through communion as well as offering communion those of you at home we will have communion at the end of the service so you're welcome to find something to eat and a drink and join right along with us if you are a first time visitor welcome we're especially glad you're joining us we ask a big favor though so we can connect with you if you take your phone and you would uh text the word guest to the following number 480-933-1482 and we'll be glad to get to know you please include your name with that so we know who you are and we'll even give you a digital gift card to show our appreciation for you uh connecting with us so we've got a wonderful service plan i'd invite you to please stand up let's begin our worship service singing starting off with a song called ancient of days blessing and honor glory and power be into the ancient of days from every nation all of creation bow before the ancient of days every tongue in heaven and earth shall declare your glory every knee shall bow at your throne in worship you will be exalted kingdom shall not pass away o ancient appears [Music] blessing and honor glory and power be unto the ancient of days from every nation all of creation bow every tongue in heaven and earth shall declare your glory every knee shall now have your throne in worship you will be exalted oh god and your kingdom shall not pass away [Music] your kingdom shall reign over on [Music] sing to the ancient of days every tongue in heaven and earth shall declare your glory every knee shall bow at your throne in worship you will be exalted oh god and your kingdom shall not pass [Music] because he lives [Music] and life is worth the living just because he lives god sent his son they called him jesus he came to love he lived an empty grave is there to prove i save your lips you know this [Music] [Music] he part [Music] all fear is gone because i know he holds a future and life is worth the living just because he lives [Music] praise god he does ah what i'd like you to do just to make those people at home feel welcome and part of this service there's a camera right in the back you know everybody turn around and say welcome and wave to them welcome we're glad you're joining us and would you do the same thing to somebody next to you share your name with them give them a little fist bump find out who you're singing with who you're worshiping with once you've had a chance to do that we invite you to have a seat and then we'll continue on with our music video video no all right and as always we have some wonderful things happening right here at broadway christian church and so i ask you to direct your attention to the screen behind me let's find out what's happening at broadway christian hey there everyone my name is doug and i'd like to tell you about what's coming up for you and your family at broadway so check this out there's still time to participate in the new hope community center food drive if you haven't heard about this yet we're helping cover the month of september because it's usually the slowest month for donations to join in bring canned fruits and vegetables to one of the green bins in the lobby thank you for your generosity kick off this year's operation christmas child season with the team on saturday september 25th at 10 30 a.m in the family life center you'll hear from various speakers and learn just how impactful this global outreach ministry can be we hope to see you there if you'd like to learn more about broadway christian church or see our full calendar of events visit bccmesa.com info and be sure to connect with us on facebook and instagram at vccmesa have a great week is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] you are my everything [Music] foods and rainbows of living color flashes [Music] [Music] power [Music] this is my father's world and to my listening ears [Music] [Music] this is my father's world i rest [Music] rocks and trees of skies is my father's world the birds they're carols [Music] this is my father's world he shines [Music] he speaks to me everywhere [Music] he's got the whole world in his hands he's got the whole world in his hands he's got the wind and the rain he's got the wind and the rain he's got the wind and the rain in his hands he's got the whole world in his hands he's got you and me brother in his hands he's got you and me brother in his hands he's got you and me brother in his hands he's got the whole world in his hands this is my father's world oh let me near forgive that though the wrong seems off so strong god is the ruler yet this is my father's world the battle is not done jesus who died shall be satisfied [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] one of my favorite top 10 movies of all time is the movie sandlot and sandlot came out in 1993 and it's a movie about a group of boys who play the game of baseball in a field that they called the sand lot and the room the movie is really about a coming-of-age story of this group of boys and them really learning to include a boy who was not a part of their group into their group and the main character of the movie is a young boy named scotty smalls and scottie smalls was in fifth grade he had just moved to the area he was brand new the school year was ending and he didn't know anybody and nobody knew him and summer was beginning and so the chances of him really learning about anybody or knowing anybody and developing a friendship we're looking pretty slim for him and as the movie just opens up we see scottie smalls have a conversation with his mom and his mom comes into his room and is encouraging him to to go out and make friends and she says to him hey i don't want you to sit in the room like you did last summer and the summer before and isolate yourself and just stay in here and play with your toys and i want you to go out and i want you to make friends and i want you to have a great summer and i want you to even get in trouble she says get in some trouble well she encouraged him to do that and so we see him go out and he makes an attempt his first attempt which didn't go really well to to join to be a part of that group that's playing baseball at the lot there was eight of them and baseball was played with nine diff nine different players and they were missing one one player so he he tries to be a part of the group and because he didn't know the game of baseball and he didn't really have any understanding of the skill set and just really wasn't knowledgeable in any way he ends up running away and it didn't it didn't go very well well what ends up happening next is really how we see it's just real simple for someone to to to make a friend and include somebody and scotty smalls is sitting on the front stoop of his house and he's looking at his plastic broken glove and he's just depressed and discouraged and all of a sudden along comes a character named benny rodriguez actually benny the jet rodriguez and benny walks up to smalls at as he's sitting down in front of his house and he says hey come on come play baseball with us and he's like i don't have a glove and he hands him his glove and they take off to go and play at the sand lot well of course as he gets there the other players aren't really sure about him being included in into the team and they see that he didn't have a lot of skills and didn't understand the game baseball and and they were like come on do we have to include him do we have to make him a part of our team and benny was just determined that smalls was going to be a part of the team and so he hits a ball to him and smalls doesn't catch it and then benny walks out to him and he talks to him and gives him just a little bit of instruction and then he hits the ball to him again and smalls catches it and he throws it correctly back into the team and everybody starts to go okay maybe maybe he can be a part of us maybe he can be a part of the team and from there the movie just shows them going from some experiences to experiences and then of course the the movie sandlot has some iconic iconic phrases like you're killing me smalls and never and that it's just it's just an iconic movie but there's a a big problem that ensues at the end of the movie because of scottie smalls lack of understanding of the game of baseball and who babe ruth really was but as they were going through the movie they were developing their friendship and as the problem ensued that friendship really surrounded scotty and began to help him well there's a story in the old testament of the bible in the book of exodus actually it's just a few short verses in exodus chapter 17. in exodus chapter 17 we see that the amalekites were attacking the israelites and moses says to joshua hey tomorrow we're going to go out and fight the amalekites and i'm going to go up on top of this hill and you're gonna fight them and i'm gonna oh i'm gonna watch and i'm gonna oversee the fight and so the fight ensues the next day and the israelites are fighting them and as they were fighting moses was lifting up his his hands and he kept his hands up in the in the air and as long as his hands stayed up the israelites would win and the moment he began to drop them down the israelites would be would begin to lose upwind down loose and so moses as he's up on the hill has two guys with him aaron and her and aaron and her noticed that moses was having a hard time keeping his hands up all day by the way all of us would too because it's one thing to keep them up for a couple minutes but an entire day because this battle was lasting a long time it would be difficult for any of us and so they came up with a quick plan they put some stones underneath him so he could sit down just a little bit and aaron on one side and her on the other kept moses's arms up the rest of the day and the israelites defeated the amalekites so from that movie and from just that quick versus in exodus chapter 17 of moses and aaron and her and the defeat of the amalekites and moses keeping his arms up just have a few short observations about this idea of friendship and and the need for friendship and and really how we kind of perceive friendship and maybe maybe what the stories tell us a little bit and here's the first observation we don't know that we need people until we need them oftentimes that's the case when something happens in our life and we can't take care of the problem ourselves at that particular moment it becomes very clear to all of us hey i can't handle this and i need i need some help but if we don't have people in our lives it becomes obvious that it's a problem that might be too big for us to tackle another observation is simply this and the moment that we need of community of friends and that in that moment that we need that community of friends it's too late to develop a foundation it's too late to build a foundation which simply means this if you don't have people around you who can help you and be there for you and encourage you in the difficult times in life then then when that difficult time comes and you need to invite somebody into your problem it's too late and so the obvious thought here is develop it when you don't need it start now to invite people into your life and begin to develop significant friendships deep friendships and friendships where you know people are going to be there for you no matter what's happening in your life and you get to be there for them as well and another observation is simply this the best experiences in life are shared the best experience the best things in life are shared when we get to share them with other people in our life where we have something go on in our life where we get to years later we get to talk about it we get to reminisce about it we get to have people who walk through the difficult seasons with us in our life and that's certainly what happened in the movie sandlot and it's what happened in the story in exodus where moses needed somebody to to help him out because he wasn't going to be able to do it he needed two guys to come around him and and lift up his arms and i can imagine as time went on over the years they would be able to talk about those shared experiences and those young boys in the movie sandlot would talk about how that summer went and what happened and all the things that that ensued and and the fun of that as well maybe maybe we could say it best like this that the the best things in life it makes the it makes the the victories a whole lot sweeter and it makes the defeats a whole lot easier to swallow just some just some observations about friendship and i think we we all need friends we all need a community to come around us and the church should be doing this idea of community better than anybody else does community we should have the best friendships the deepest the most transparent friendships so here's a couple things i want to encourage you with today i want to first of all i want to encourage you to be a friend you see jenny the bet rodriguez was a friend to smalls when he needed a friend the most and he what he did was he invited him into something that he was already doing and that's what i want to encourage you with be a friend and invite somebody into something that you're already doing so you can share an experience together and secondly is this develop a community get get involved in the community here at broadway christian church get connected get connected into groups a bible study a life group get connected into service get connected begin to develop that foundation so that you have people who know you and that you get to know as well and then the last one is this the the church when it began in the book of acts they didn't they didn't describe church as something that you attended they they did church and church was about the people so don't just do a service do church with people have a connection have have people that you're doing life with and yes sunday morning is a part of that but we want you to do life with people during the week as well so be a friend share invite somebody into a shared experience get connected this is so important and then thirdly as we talk about this idea of friendship don't just attend a service but do life do life with people as jesus was wrapping up his ministry simply he said to his disciples this incredible way of looking at how we are to do life with one another and he says in john 13 35 he says a new command i give you love one another as i have loved you and so so much a part of what we do together as a church needs to be about the one another that we care for one another that we pray for one another that we share life together with with one another let's pray father we thank you that we can see the need for people in our life and boy do we need people we need friends we need a community and the church should be doing that better than anybody else and so i pray for anybody who needs to take that step today to invite somebody into a relationship with them and take a risk today and i also pray for those that are struggling in their life and they need someone to reach out to them father that that they can they can experience that rich and deep relationship of fellowship that that the church should be having with one another i pray that nobody here at broadway christian church goes away lonely father and that they they can say yes i know somebody and somebody knows me and father i just uh i thank you that you've taught us what it means to be a friend and develop a community and that you want us to have that here on earth and so we pray it in jesus name amen [Music] amen the scripture leaves it wide open as to how often you take communion each group church needs to make that determination themselves some churches and groups celebrate annually some quarterly it's our privilege to take communion weekly but what the scripture does not leave open for interpretation is what communion means and how we're to take it in first corinthians chapter 10 the apostle paul is speaking of course to the corinthian church and by extension us of course he says i speak to sensible people which i guess is what i'm doing now speaking to sensible people i speak to sensible people judge for yourselves what i say is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of christ the word participation there is where we get the word fellowship a fellowship in the blood of christ and is not the bread we break a participation in the body of christ because there's one loaf we who are many are one body for we share that one loaf you see communion christ invites us he invited the disciples he invites us to share in the body and blood of the lord jesus christ we share that common experience fellowship two fellows in the same ship we share that common experience of salvation through the blood of jesus christ and his broken body so when jesus picked up a loaf and he said broke it and said this is my body which is broken for you collectively we eat of it let's eat together thank you lord thank you for your goodness when he picked up a cup he said this cup represents my blood blood of the covenant shed for many for the remission of sins when we drink together we're participating or fellowshipping in the blood of christ which cleanses us from all unrighteousness let's drink together thank you lord thank you for your goodness lord thank you for your mercy and kindness bless each one now in jesus name amen god is so good isn't he amen let me just say a word or two about offering it's uh amen what a blessing i want to mention the hope house hope community center because it's an outreach of this church and supported directly of course with our tithes and offerings and what a blessing that is i think there was 49 volunteers operating the hope house it's only open monday tuesday and wednesday mornings ministering primarily to the hope the homeless and and those in need in a particular zip code uh trying to stay focused but what an important ministry that is so let me pray over the offering father i just praise you and thank you for your grace and mercy and kindness and i pray a blessing lord on gift and giver in jesus name amen that concludes our service this morning if you are a guest please text the number on the screen we'd be blessed to get acquainted with you if you have need of prayer of anything uh there will be a couple of us down here to pray with you lord bless you [Music] you

Channel: Broadway Christian Church Mesa

Views: 54

Rating: 0 out of 5

Keywords:

Id: rkVt_zTYAqA

Length: 36min 38sec (2198 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 19 2021