It was great to be together yesterday morning and join our voices together in joyful praise to our great God, who has saved us and transformed our lives through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Yesterday’s sermon, the fourth and final part of our “Worship His Majesty” series, entitled: “The Spirit, the Body & The Worship of God” is available to listen to or download from here, via our iTunes podcast feed.

For those of you with children in the Generations Sunday School, here’s the “Weekly Info” that we hope will serve you in following up with your children on what they sang and learned this week, and the verse to memorise for next week’s Sunday school.

Here’s the quotes from the sermon:

Donald Whitney:
“God will manifest his presence to you in congregational worship in ways you can never know, even in the most glorious secret worship.  That’s because you are not only a temple of God as an individual, but the Bible says – and far more often – that Christians collectively are God’s temple.  God manifests his presence in different ways to the living stones of the temple when they are gathered than he does to them when they are apart.”

Donald Whitney:
“How is your service quotient?  Is your church stronger because of you?   Nutritionists speak of “empty calories”; in order for these calories to be processed the body must use some of its nutritional resources, yet empty calories do little or nothing to nourish the body in return.  Calories from other types of food however, not only take from the body’s strength as they metabolise, they replenish it.  Do you receive more ministry from the church than you minister to it?  God intends for every member of the church body to be served by it, and there are times when even the most spiritually mature members will receive more ministry than they give.  Nevertheless, the goal for each of us should be to serve in the church in such a way that it is stronger because we are there.”

Sam Storms:
“Prophecy is not based on a hunch, a supposition, an inference, an educated guess, or even on sanctified wisdom.  Prophecy is not based on personal insight, intuition, or illumination.  Prophecy is the human report of a divine revelation.”