Porch SF
Sunday Gathering | November 14, 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
This Week: Friendsgiving Dinner
Invite your friends and neighbors to join us for a Friendsgiving Dinner on Wednesday, November 17th at the Bracketts' home. RSVP your headcount and sign up to bring a dish or drinks on Slack (and if you're not in the Porch Slack, email Kala at admin@porchsf.com.)
Invite your friends and neighbors to join us for a Friendsgiving Dinner on Wednesday, November 17th at the Bracketts' home. RSVP your headcount and sign up to bring a dish or drinks on Slack (and if you're not in the Porch Slack, 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/giveTravel Plans Survey
As we're working out our gathering schedule for this holiday season, it will be extremely helpful for us to know when you'll be with us and when you'll be out of town. Please submit this form ASAP!
https://forms.gle/SEZ8oZ4VH4jMWhgU9Family Builders Gift Drive
Family Builders is the agency that Jon and Melissa are a part of as foster parents. Every year at Christmas, they do a gift drive where people can buy presents for foster kids, and this year we're participating as a church. All gifts must be mailed or delivered to Family Builders by December 3rd.
https://www.porchsf.com/pastoralupdates/2021/11/13/family-builders-gift-drive2021 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 | Q46: What is the Lord’s Supper?
Answer: Christ commanded all Christians to eat bread and to drink from the cup in thankful remembrance of him and his death. The Lord’s Supper is a celebration of the presence of God in our midst; bringing us into communion with God and with one another; feeding and nourishing our souls. It also anticipates the day when we will eat and drink with Christ in his Father’s kingdom.
http://newcitycatechism.com/new-city-catechism/#46How they use religion for their own glory:
They clean up the outside because that’s what other people can see while they let the inside (that part only God can see) rot away.
They ignore justice because it’s hard. They tithe herbs because it looks hard.
They used their synagogue services as a tool to prop up their own social standing instead of a way to worship and be closer to God.
They burden others with religious garbage that they won’t go near.
They use the Bible to inflate their ego and not as a path to humility.
They kept people from the truth to keep themselves in power.
They try to stamp out the gospel because it rubs them the wrong way.
They clean up the outside because that’s what other people can see while they let the inside (that part only God can see) rot away.
They ignore justice because it’s hard. They tithe herbs because it looks hard.
They used their synagogue services as a tool to prop up their own social standing instead of a way to worship and be closer to God.
They burden others with religious garbage that they won’t go near.
They use the Bible to inflate their ego and not as a path to humility.
They kept people from the truth to keep themselves in power.
They try to stamp out the gospel because it rubs them the wrong way.
Singing
Confession and Lament, Communion, Singing
