Audlem Baptist Church Online Service for the
10^th November 2024

Practicing the Way

This is the fourth service in our current series.

The Practice of Prayer

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Introduction

The sermons for these online services come from Chichester Baptist Church during very recent months.

In our previous series we have talked about the huge impact that Jesus’s earthly ministry had on the way we think about God, the Trinity and the Kingdom of Heaven. Now, in this series we move on to think about what it means for us to be one of his followers. The early church was known as being people who followed in The Way. The term “Christian” came much later.

This series is in large part based on a book by John Mark Comer entitled “Practising the Way”. My hope is that as we go through this series we will go deeper in our understanding of what it is to be a true disciple.

Song: Sovereign over Us

In this series I have tried to use the same hymns that were used in Chichester before and after the message. So this song is their choice for us. It is another new one to me. You probably know that I love to remind people that ‘God is always at work’. This song contains that thought and has the words: ‘You are faithful for ever, perfect in love and sovereign over us’.

Message: The Practice of Prayer

The fourth message of the series is from September this year. If you have a Bible or Bible App to hand, please get it ready. All the readings come from the gospel of Luke. You will need chapters 24, 18 and 11.

The speaker is Mick Uffindell, who is one of the members at Chichester.

Click the filmstrip icon below to start watching the YouTube video. It should start automatically at about 59 minutes into the complete service.

I suggest that you stop the video when he has finished a prayer at the end of his message. We will follow that with our own prayers and a video of the same song that they sang.

You can view the video full screen by clicking the small button at the bottom right of the video screen (as shown highlighted on the small image on the left).

Prayers

As you watched the message today was there a moment when you sensed the Holy Spirit speaking directly to you? Then tell Jesus about it. Or maybe you simply had a ‘lightbulb’ moment which you would like to thank God for.

Spend a few moments to thank God for all his goodness to you in the last week.

Spend a few minutes in confession.

Take a few minutes to pray for others who you feel burdened for. If you have received the Church Email, it will give you some suggestions.

Now spend a few moments praying for the fellowship of the church to which we belong and its witness to friends, family, neighbours, the young and the old, and to the wider world.

Song: Everything

The Chichester congregation sang this song to close. It expresses our desire to have God at the centre of our lives and be with us whatever we do and wherever we go.

A Closing Prayer

From Hebrews 13 verse 20
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip us with everything good that we may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever.

Amen.