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 Identify specific things that you do in your church service that you think are unique to
your church; things that most other churches probably don’t do in their church.

Who serves communion?
Who reads Scripture?

Who leads the church in prayer?

 Identify things that you assume every church includes in their worship service.

Who takes the offering?

When is the offering taken?
How long is the sermon? How many songs do you sing? Do you have a choir? How are
the children involved? Do you ever pray for a specific person in the middle of your service,
especially when ill or in need of healing, etc?

 What is the strangest thing you have ever seen or heard that someone did in a worship
service?
1 Timothy 2:1-7. A Call to Depend Upon God.

1 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for all
people — 2 for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all
godliness and holiness. 3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be
saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God and one mediator
between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all
people. This has now been witnessed at the proper time. 7 And for this purpose I was
appointed a herald and an apostle—I am telling the truth; I am not lying—and a true and
faithful teacher of the Gentiles.
God desires that all people will be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth (v. 5-6)

v5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, v6 who gave
himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed at the proper time.

God died for all men’s sins (all people).
Paul affirms that Christ paid the price with His own precious blood (I Peter 1:18-19) for the sins of every person
who has lived or ever will live --- all mankind. John put it this way: “For he (Christ) is the propitiation
(satisfaction) for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.” Romans 5:6 says, “Christ died for
the ungodly.” Further, in verse 10, he adds, “If, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him
through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!”
Praise God, He died and paid the penalty for every man’s sin. But only those who receive this special gift become
possessors of eternal life.
God chose us to spread the Gospel.

Although God is all-powerful and all-knowing, He has chosen to let us help Him change the world. How this
works is a mystery to us because of our limited understanding, but it is true, nonetheless.

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