Porch SF
Sunday Gathering | October 17, 2021
Locations & Times
Porch SF
1524 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
Sunday 3:00 AM
Call to Worship, Singing
Welcome and Updates, Prayer, Break
Visitor Connect
If you're joining us for the first time, or the first time in a long time, we'd love to know you're here. You can fill out the Visitor Connect form on our website so we can welcome you personally.
https://www.porchsf.com/sundaySubscribe to the Podcast
https://www.porchsf.com/sermonsMissional Family Dinner
Wednesday nights 6:00-8:30 PDT. For more details, email Kala at admin@porchsf.com
Wednesday nights 6:00-8:30 PDT. For more details, email Kala at admin@porchsf.com
Giving
Those who consider themselves part of the Porch family can give their tithes and offerings online either to our regular fund or you can designate a gift to the Benevolence Fund to help those in our community with financial needs during the COVID-19 crisis.
https://www.porchsf.com/give2021 Bible Reading Plan
We're reading the New Testament and the Psalms together this year. Print out the reading plan PDF and follow along as we post daily readings and videos from the Bible Project every week.
https://www.porchsf.com/2021readingplan
New City Catechism, Scripture Reading, Sermon
New City Catechism | Q41: What is the Lord’s Prayer?
Answer: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
http://newcitycatechism.com/new-city-catechism/#41New City Catechism | Q42: How is the Word of God to be read and heard?
With diligence, preparation, and prayer; so that we may accept it with faith, store it in our hearts, and practice it in our lives.
http://newcitycatechism.com/new-city-catechism/#42Idea 1: Loving Your Neighbor Breaks Down Babylon
Application Questions:
Are you close enough to your neighbors to see where Babylon has impacted them?
On a wider scale, in what ways do you participate in Babylon?
On a personal level, how can you help reverse Babylon in the lives of your neighbors?
Are you close enough to your neighbors to see where Babylon has impacted them?
On a wider scale, in what ways do you participate in Babylon?
On a personal level, how can you help reverse Babylon in the lives of your neighbors?
Idea 2: Loving Your Neighbor Is Costly
The Duty of Charity to the Poor
Jonathan Edwards sermon, 1733
https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=3417Application Questions:
What’s your excuse that keeps you from helping?
If you had an outsider come and follow you around for a while, what could they come up with to describe how you sacrifice for others?
Think of one way you can make your life worse to make someone else’s better.
What’s your excuse that keeps you from helping?
If you had an outsider come and follow you around for a while, what could they come up with to describe how you sacrifice for others?
Think of one way you can make your life worse to make someone else’s better.
Idea 3: Loving Your Neighbor Crosses Tribal Boundaries
From Every People and Nation: a Biblical Theology of Race (J. Daniel Hays)
“Thus one of the major boundaries that will delineate this ‘ethnic group’ called the ‘sons of Israel’ from other groups is a theological one and not merely a biological one”
https://bookshop.org/books/from-every-people-and-nation-a-biblical-theology-of-race/9780830826162Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian (John Piper)
https://bookshop.org/books/bloodlines-race-cross-and-the-christian/9781433528521Application Questions:
How is your life intentionally set up to build relationships with people who are different from you?
How is your life unintentionally set up to not build relationships with people who are different from you?
Think of one way that you can spend time with someone who isn’t from your tribe.
How is your life intentionally set up to build relationships with people who are different from you?
How is your life unintentionally set up to not build relationships with people who are different from you?
Think of one way that you can spend time with someone who isn’t from your tribe.
Singing
Confession and Lament, Communion, Singing
