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Thank you for joining us today, September 5th, 2021! Please take a moment to fill out your connection card. Once that is completed, we encourage you to join us in worship and be ready to engage with our sermon. You can find the worship songs below as well as upcoming events and the sermon note outline. And if you are an Orchard regular, there is a "Give Now" button for you to give your weekly offering below.
Worship with Orchard
One of the things our community loves to do every time we gather is worship the Lord through song. While we understand this may not be your jam, we would ask that you would open yourself to the idea of musical worship and allow this time to prepare you to hear from our speaker and the Bible.
Sermon Notes for September 5th
Series: Church On the Move
Title: | Acts 6:1-7
Speaker: Matt Herbst
9/5
Acts 6:1-7
In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews[a] among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food. 2 So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, “It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables. 3 Brothers and sisters, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility over to them 4 and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word.”
5 This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism. 6 They presented these men to the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them.
7 So the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith.