worship FOCUS 12 September, 2010

westminster presbyterian church, tiburon, california

Visit the church website: www.wpctiburon.org, 415-383-5272

240 Tiburon Boulevard, Tiburon, California 94920

 

This weekly study guide seeks to help members, friends, and visitors prepare for the upcoming Sunday service and teaching.  To be removed from or added to the e-mail list write wpcsec@yahoo.com or call the church office: 383-5272, ext. 10.

 

 

COME HAVE FUN AND MEET JESUS

 

At the In-Gathering Meal THIS SUNDAY, 11:15

 

THEME FOR THE SUNDAY TEACHING:

              Doug’s Teaching this Sunday celebrates the theme of the post-church In-Gathering Meal and the place of Jesus at the table of strangers, friends, tax collectors, sinners, disciples, and other folk.  If Jesus came back to earth today would you really expect to find him in church?  Well, perhaps, or maybe, but probably for sure at the church picnic, in the coffee hour telling tales, at the in-gathering laughing with our summer stories and playing on the swings with the children.  Yes?!  No?! 

 

TEACHING                                              Let’s Do Lunch – Jesus the Divine Foodie                                   Doug Huneke

“Their eyes were opened and the recognized him.”  On the Emmaus Road, Luke 24:31

 

SCRIPTURE

 

Matthew 14:13-21 – When Jesus learned of the capricious murder of John the Baptist he withdrew on a boat to a deserted place by himself.  But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.  When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick.  When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “this is a deserted place, and the hour is late; send the crowds away so they may go to their villages and buy food for themselves.”  Jesus told them, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.”  They replied, “We have nothing here but five loaves and two fish.”  “Bring them to me,” he replied.  Then he ordered the crowd to sit down on the grass.  Taking the five loaves and two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to give to the crowds.  And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over for the broken pieces, twelve baskets full.  And those who ate were about five thousand men, women, and children.

 

 

Luke 19:1-10 – Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through where a man named Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector who was very rich was trying to see Jesus.  Because of the crowd and because he was small of stature he could not see Jesus.  So he climbed up a sycamore tree to see him as he passed by that way.  When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.”  So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him.  All who saw it began to grumble and said, “He has to be the guest of one who is a sinner.”  Zacchaeus stood there and said to Jesus, “Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.”  Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because you too are a son of Abraham.  For the Son of Humanity came to seek out and save the lost.”

 

 

QUOTE     

     

Hallowed be Your Name:In industry – God be in my hands and in my making.In the arts – God be in my senses and in my creating.In the home – God be in my heart and in my loving.In commerce – God be at my desk and in my trading.In suffering – God be in my pain and in my enduring.In government – be in my plans and in my deciding.In education – God be in my mind and in my growing.In recreation – God be in my limbs and in my leisure.Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of HostsHeaven and earth are full of your glory “Prayer Panels in the Ruins,” Coventry CathedralCoventry, Midlands England

 

 

QUESTIONS FOR CONTINUED REFLECTION, MEDITATION, AND PRAYER

 

  • Scan the four Gospels and make note (by book, chapter and verse) of every time Jesus takes part in a meal, a party, or is a guest giving or receiving hospitality.
  • Surprise!  Plenty of references.  So, what does his proclivity for meals with others tell you about Jesus?
  • Read the two lessons for the Teaching and seek to discern how they speak to you about Jesus.
  • Find the passage about “entertaining angels unawares….”  And think about the number of times Jesus as been present at table with you.

!  MARK YOUR CALENARS!

SUNDAY MORNINGS: 8:30 FAITH CAFÉ with Lloyd and Val Henderson + Fireside Room

 

For our Children and Youth

This Sunday, our children and youth will look at a passage from 1 Timothy, and consider how God's love transformed the life of St. Paul and continues to transform our lives .

 

SUNDAY, 11:15 am, the FUN, FABULOUS GOURMET

In-Gathering Picnic at the church

A great time to reconnect with folks after summer break

See the poster in the entry hall –or—refer to the postcard you should have received in the mail