1. Welcome to St
Andrews
Baptist Church

2. When you look around at the people who come to worship God alongside you on Sunday, what do you see?

3. “Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews
“Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie – the blind, the lame, the paralysed.” John 5:1-3

4. “No, don’t close your eyes… it will do you good to see the sorrowful sight, to mark what sin has done and to what sorrows our father Adam has made us heirs.” CH Spurgeon
Bethesda – paints a picture of brokenness

6. “Raggy dolls, Raggy dolls,. dolls like you and me. ”
“Raggy dolls, Raggy dolls, dolls like you and me.” Raggy Dolls Theme Tune

7. “…one who was there had been an invalid for 38 years.”
John 5:5

8. Bethesda = House of Divine Grace!
“… it is by grace you have been saved, through faith- and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.” Ephesians 2:8

9. “When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
John 5:6
Do you want to get well?

10. “Sir… I have no-one to help me into the water when it is stirred
“Sir… I have no-one to help me into the water when it is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
John 5:7

11. “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
John 5:8

12. Do you want to get well?

13. Welcome to St
Andrews
Baptist Church