Online Meeting Sunday 31st May 2020
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Lee Street Church Notes of on-line meeting held on 31st May 2020 We welcomed about 24 people on-line, including our guest speaker Ian Hancock. Brian led the worship time. Psalm 95 v 1-2 “Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song”. As “people of the risen King” we are all called to Rejoice in whatever circumstances we find ourselves. Come, people of the Risen King,
Come, young and old from every land Men and women of the faith; REFRAIN
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Today is Pentecost Sunday (used to be called Whitsun – with a Bank Holiday thrown in) – the real Birthday of the Church
READ Acts 2 v 1 – 12
The apostles and many believers were gathering together, as was their custom on the Sabbath, in the courts of the temple at Jerusalem. With the sound of a violent wind, and with tongues of fire landing on each of them, they were filled with the Holy Spirit, and began speaking in other tongues, as enabled by the Holy Spirit. Onlookers from many nations were amazed, as they listened to preaching by these Galileans in their own native languages. Peter had to explain what had happened – the Holy Spirit whom Jesus had promised had now come upon them, in accordance with the Old Testament prophesy by Joel. Having spoken clearly about the death and resurrection of Jesus, he told them of their need to repent, to be baptised, and to receive the Holy Spirit whom Jesus had promised for all believers. We often get “fired up” to do something – gardening, cleaning, playing a favourite sport; but have we allowed the Holy Spirit to fire us up to serve the Lord? Maybe we’ve not yet received God’s gift – perhaps we’re not sure what He will want us to do. The next 2 songs are hopefully our response to the Holy Spirit today.
Holy Spirit how I love you Holy Spirit, how I love you, You’re the Strength that helps me in my weakness, Holy Spirit we welcome You Holy spirit, we welcome you Move amongst us with holy fire Holy spirit, we welcome you Let the breeze of your presence blow, Please accomplish in me today
Praise and Prayer items shared this week included:
Ian’s Message Subject: Lockdown Something we knew little about until 2 months ago – in the UK it is primarily here for our protection. It does however have a number of side effects. Positive ones – improved environment due to less vehicles and planes, clearer sky, more opportunities to walk etc. Negative ones – frustrations, particularly in not being able to meet friends and family. (The last similar curfews were back during World War 2) Ian reminded us of the situation that Joseph experienced (ref. Genesis ch. 39) when he was unjustly imprisoned. But we read (v.20) “..while Joseph was there in prison, the Lord was with him.” Joseph went on later to be a top man in Pharaoh’s government. Ian’s key verses were in Acts 28: vs 16 & 30/31 V16: “When we got to Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him” V30 & 31: “For two whole years Paul stayed there in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him. Boldly and without hinderance he preached the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ”. He made amazing use of his time in lockdown. He
Paul had previously been in prison with Silas in Philippi (see Acts 16: 22 – 34). Is spite of having been flogged and mis-treated by angry crowds, while in prison they:
What is our response to lockdown? We should be positive, and make good use of opportunities to:
BEML 31 May 2020
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