Oakwood Community Church

How to Call one another Up:

1. Spend Time Together

“After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell.” Acts 20:1

How to Call one another Up:

1. Spend Time Together

“He came to Greece. There he spent three months… Waiting for us at Troas… we stayed for seven days…”
Acts 20:3,6

How to Call one another Up:

1. Spend Time Together

“Sopater the Berean… accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe…and the Asians…”
Acts 20:4

How to Call one another Up:

2. Speak Truth to one another

“Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell.”
Acts 20:1

• parakaleo - to call alongside

How to Call one another Up:

2. Speak Truth to one another

“When we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them… and he prolonged his speech until midnight.”
Acts 20:7

How to Call one another Up:

2. Speak Truth to one another

“Paul talked with them… and he prolonged his speech until midnight.”
Acts 20:7

• Affirmation and Exhortation

How to Call one another Up:

3. Share in Trials with the hurting

“Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms said, ‘Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.’”
Acts 20:10

How to Call one another Up:

3. Share in Trials with the hurting

“They took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.”
Acts 20:12