Preparing for worship on June 29 2014 - The concluding message of the New Normal series!

I am very excited about our time tomorrow at North Raleigh Church of the Nazarene!        I plan to conclude the teaching series: The NEW NORMAL with a message about a changed life and how we can be used by God to share the NEW NORMAL with others. We often think of Paul as a giant of the faith – someone without whom Christianity as we know it would be radically different. But we forget that before Paul could go on his missionary journeys and write his letters, he needed someone to show him what it meant to follow Christ. For Paul, that man was Ananias. Ananias took Paul in and sheltered him. Who was your Ananias? Are you being an Ananias to anyone else?

We will use this passage of Scripture for our study today:

 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone. Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus. For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything.                                                                              Acts 9:1-9


Our plan is to give a great welcome and a call to worship, then we will stand and enter into a time of praise and worship in song.  Here is the current worship set we have planned:

Over the recent months we have seen the faithfulness of out God in answering 
prayer and bringing forth miracles in our presence. God is at work in our church! 

 Let us open our hearts before God and prepare for an out pouring of the Spirit of God upon us!






Now is the time for announcements about times we can gather for fellowship and support  and also times of service and giving to others.   As we give our offering to the Lord let us do so by purposing in our hearts to give unto God what He is speaking to us about!

He is the offering of praise in music as we give our financial gifts:




Now it is time for the message: