WORSHIP
Word on worship
Psalm 63:1-5
O God, you are our God; earnestly we seek you;
Our souls thirst for you; our flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
So we look upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.
Because your steadfast love is better than life, our lips will praise you.
So we will bless you as long as we live;
in your name we will lift up our hands.
Adoration
Confession
Assurance
Thanksgiving
SERMON
Acts 6:1-7
Seven Chosen to Serve
6 Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists[a] arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. 2 And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. 3 Therefore, brothers,[b] pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. 4 But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” 5 And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. 6 These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them.
7 And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.