1. Welcome! NSD Vibrant Disciples
Worshipping God

2. Discipleship: Following Jesus

3. As a part of the Seventh-day Adventist movement, and recognizing our prophetic role in history, a disciple of Jesus Christ is one who is growing in an authentic relationship with God and others.
I will commit to:
Reaching FORWARD!

4. Following God Through Daily Spiritual Practices

5. Opening myself to God by participating in regular corporate worship

6. Sabbath as the day of rest, worship, and ministry in harmony with the teaching and practice of Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath. The Sabbath is a day of delightful communion with God and one another. It is a symbol of our redemption in Christ, a sign of our sanctification, a token of our
The Sabbath

7. The beneficent Creator, after the six days of Creation, rested on the seventh day and instituted the Sabbath for all people as a memorial of Creation. The fourth commandment of God's unchangeable law requires the observance of this seventh-day
The Sabbath

8. allegiance, and a foretaste of our eternal future in God's kingdom
allegiance, and a foretaste of our eternal future in God's kingdom. The Sabbath is God's perpetual sign of His eternal covenant between Him and His people. Joyful observance of this holy time from evening to evening, sunset to sunset, is a celebration of God's creative and redemptive acts.
The Sabbath

9. Self Friends Occupation Education Home Talents Parents Skills
Automobile
God
Church
Bank Account

10. God Friends Occupation Education Home Talents Parents Skills
Automobile
Self
Church
Bank Account

11. Matthew 22:37-39
“Jesus said to him, “'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.”
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12. Exodus 20:1-8
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”
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13. Bible Words for Worship
reverence, glorify, honor, praise, magnify, bow down, fear, bless, extol, adore,
give thanks

14. Revelation 5:11-13
“Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.”

15. Opening myself to God by participating in regular corporate worship

16. How do I begin to understand and experience worship?
Seek a new experience with God
How do I begin to understand and experience worship?

17. How do I begin to understand and experience worship?
Seek a new experience with God
Choose to respond to God
How do I begin to understand and experience worship?

18. How do I begin to understand and experience worship?
Seek a new experience with God
Choose to respond to God
Let your new experience with God change your Sabbath worship
How do I begin to understand and experience worship?

19. Practical Plans Build worship services Thematic –all parts match
Involve people
Take away distractions
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20. Study comes before worship
Evangelism is a result of worship
We admit our unworthiness and celebrate God’s grace
Our place in Sabbath morning worship is to participate
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21. Matthew 22:37-39
“Jesus said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.”
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22. Let’s take a moment with Activity Sheet:
Building A Thematic Worship Service
We will spend 15 minutes building the worship service then each table will report to the group
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23. Take my life and let it be, Consecrated, Lord, to Thee, Take my hands,
and let them move.
At the impulse of Thy love,
At the impulse of Thy love.
Take My Life

24. Take my feet and let it be, Swift and beautiful for Thee;
Take my voice and let me sing
Always, only, for my King,
Always, only, for my King.
Take My Life

25. Take my lips, and let them be Filled with messages from Thee;
Take my silver and my gold,
Not a mite would I withhold,
Not a mite would I withhold.
Take My Life

26. It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart it is Thine own!
Take my will and make it
Thine;
It shall be no longer mine;
Take my heart it is Thine own!
It shall be Thy royal throne,
It shall be Thy royal throne.
Take My Life

27. Take my love, my Lord, I pour At Thy feet its treasure store;
Take myself and I will be,
Ever, only, all for Thee,
Ever, only, all for Thee.
Take My Life

28. Opening myself to God by participating in regular corporate worship

29. Disciples: Following Jesus

30. Reaching FORWARD! Following God through daily spiritual practices
Opening myself to God by participating in regular corporate worship
Returning time, talents, and resources to God
Willingly serve my local church and community in the context of my spiritual gifts
Anticipating spiritual growth in others by being in genuine relationships
Reproducing the discipleship journey in others through the power of the Holy Spirit
Developing in my life of faith as evidenced by the fruits of the Spirit