This Week at New Life

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Sunday’s Schedule

Order of Worship

Sunday, October 20, 2024

Call to Worship: Psalm 46:1-11

Psalm 46 (Lord of Hosts)
Come Thou Fount

Confession

Thy Mercy My God

Assurance of Pardon

O Praise the Name

Community: Greeting and Announcements

Missions Moment: Ray Wiesen, Penn State Abington CCO

(children dismissed)

This is My Father’s World

Congregational Prayer

Sermon: What is the Christian Position?, Matthew 6:31–33
Anthony Gammage, preaching

General Offering

O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

Benediction

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Sermon Outline

Sunday, October 20, 2024

What is the Christian Position?

Text: Matthew 6:31–33

Preacher: Anthony Gammage

Outline

1. What is a “Christian Position” anyway?
2. Find Clarity in Biblical Moral Principles
3. Offer Charity in Political Strategy

Questions

1. Are there any concepts of injustice that might motivate my political party or candidate? Does the political party I support show any lack of concern for vulnerable individuals and groups? Do any political candidates in the party I support show a lack of decency, morality, or order? How is my political party failing to promote good and prevent evil?
2. Are there areas you have been mistaking a political strategy as a biblically moral principle?
3. How does the Gospel help you, or even compel you, to move towards a person who holds a different political view than you this week in humility and possibly reconciliation?

Prayer Focus

For Ray Wiesen and Penn State CCO Campus Ministry:

• Pray that more students would come out to our bible studies.
• Pray for anxiety and stress since right now is midterms.
• Pray that students would step up and become leaders for the ministry next semester.
• That students would have spiritual conversations with their non Christian friends and that students would accept the gospel.
• Pray that the Lord would provide funding and transportation to our yearly jubilee conference. With the school cutting funding our budget is going to be much lower than past years so we will have to do more fundraising.
• Prayer for a student who has been straying from Christian community and from the Lord. This student was super involved last year but the past year she experienced a bad break up, a close friend committing suicide, and another close friend committing murder.
• Pray for me that I will have endurance to keep meeting students and having hard conversations about faith.
• Pray for a student Marv who is having serious financial issues and having to pay his family bills and work while going to school full time and he is having trouble paying for food.