Hebrews 6Hebrews 6

Bunyan in JailHere he wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress

Corporate Worship Trains God's Pilgrims Not to Quit Until Journey's End

1.Destination and Direction Are Established

2. Warning to the Wayward Pilgrim Is Issued

3. Encouragement to the Enduring Pilgrim Is Assured

Corporate Worship Trains God's Pilgrims Not to Quit Until Journey's End

1. Destination and Direction Are Established

v. 1 = maturityv. 1 = maturityv. 9 = salvationv. 9 = salvationv.12 = inheriting the v.12 = inheriting the promisespromisesvv. 19-20 = beyond the vv. 19-20 = beyond the curtaincurtain

Corporate Worship Trains God's Pilgrims Not to Quit Until Journey's End

1. Destination and Direction Are Established

Get beyond the basics (1-Get beyond the basics (1-2)2)

Corporate Worship Trains God's Pilgrims Not to Quit Until Journey's End

1. Destination and Direction Are Established

Get beyond the basics (1-Get beyond the basics (1-2)2)Depend on a Sovereign Depend on a Sovereign God (3)God (3)

Corporate Worship Trains God's Pilgrims Not to Quit Until Journey's End

1. Destination and Direction Are Established

Get beyond the basics (1-Get beyond the basics (1-2)2)Depend on a Sovereign Depend on a Sovereign God (3)God (3)Walk the path of Walk the path of repentance (6)repentance (6)

Corporate Worship Trains God's Pilgrims Not to Quit Until Journey's End

1. Destination and Direction Are Established

Get beyond the basics (1-2)Get beyond the basics (1-2)Depend on a Sovereign God Depend on a Sovereign God (3)(3)Walk the path of Walk the path of repentance (6)repentance (6)Practice love in service (10)Practice love in service (10)

Corporate Worship Trains God's Pilgrims Not to Quit Until Journey's End

1. Destination and Direction Are Established

Get beyond the basics (1-2)Get beyond the basics (1-2)Depend on a Sovereign God (3)Depend on a Sovereign God (3)Walk the path of repentance (6)Walk the path of repentance (6)Practice love in service (10)Practice love in service (10)Stay true to the end (11, 12, 18)Stay true to the end (11, 12, 18)

Corporate Worship Trains God's Pilgrims Not to Quit Until Journey's End

2. Warning to the Wayward Pilgrim Is Issued

Corporate Worship Trains God's Pilgrims Not to Quit Until Journey's End

3. Encouragement to the Enduring Pilgrim Is Assured

Matthew 18:19-Matthew 18:19-2020

Again I say to you, if two of Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about you agree on earth about

anything they ask, it will be anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or in heaven. For where two or

three are gathered in my three are gathered in my name, there am I among name, there am I among

them.them.

Matthew 6:9-13Matthew 6:9-13

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into

temptation, but deliver us from evil.

“[T]he Lord's Day service is not simply a time for worship....The

purpose of prayer in the service is to stimulate and enhance that

daily prayer-life which becomes a 'practicing the presence of

Christ.’”

Grant OsborneGrant Osborne

Corporate Christian Worship Leaves Room for Lament (5:1-10)2.

Hosea 7:14Hosea 7:14

They do not cry to me from They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine their beds; for grain and wine

they gash themselves; they they gash themselves; they rebel against me.rebel against me.

Corporate Christian Worship Leaves Room for Lament (5:1-10)2.

"There is no pretense in lament, no denial, no withdrawal to some other-worldly reality. There is no romantic

effort to reduce the hurt.... [a]nd there is no presumptuous claim to secure human well-being by the mastery of nature. The watchfulness that mourns may provide a corrective to that religious triumphalism that denies the sadness of this world ...."

Allen VerhyAllen Verhy

"If Christians are going to experience the transforming effect of the Gospel, they have to see how it applies to the

challenges they face each day. We can help them by singing songs that grieve

over sin, sickness, and tragedy and also exhort us to trust in the Savior who is sovereign, good, and wise."

Bob KauflinBob Kauflin

Corporate Christian Worship Leaves Room for Lament2.

Psalm 130

Corporate Christian Worship Develops Life Skills (5:11-14)3.

James 3: 1James 3: 1

Not many of you should Not many of you should become teachers, my become teachers, my

brothers, for you know that we brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with who teach will be judged with

greater strictness.greater strictness.

Corporate Christian Worship Develops Life Skills (5:11-14)3.