Pathways Baptist Church
Sermon Series: Healthy Church Mission & Service
Welcome to worship at Pathways. We hope you will feel the presence of God's Spirit throughout today's worship service. The worship service is live streamed at www.pathwaysbc.org/streaming/watch-live-stream/. You may also connect to the service on YouVersion using the Pathways website: www.pathwaysbc.org/streaming/watch-live-stream/ then select YouVersionBible. Feel free to take notes using the YouVersion app. Fill out a Connection Card (link provided below) and let us know how we can serve you better.
Locations & Times
Pathways Baptist Church
200 W Diamond Ave, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, USA
Sunday 9:30 AM
Today's Worship Songs
The music in today's worship service is now available on Spotify using the link to the Pathways Playlist. Enjoy listening to the entire playlist throughout your week.
https://pathways.family/PathwaysPlaylist
Welcome to Worship at Pathways:
We are thankful that you have chosen to worship with us this morning. Rev. Jonathan Der is the Senior Pastor at Pathways and Rev. Paula Moutsos is the Associate Pastor. We hope that you will feel the vibrant joy of worship throughout the service. We'd like to hear from you. Please use the link to our Connection Card found at the end of today's service.
May God Bless you as you walk with Him and grow in your faith journey with Christ.
We are thankful that you have chosen to worship with us this morning. Rev. Jonathan Der is the Senior Pastor at Pathways and Rev. Paula Moutsos is the Associate Pastor. We hope that you will feel the vibrant joy of worship throughout the service. We'd like to hear from you. Please use the link to our Connection Card found at the end of today's service.
May God Bless you as you walk with Him and grow in your faith journey with Christ.
HERE FOR YOU
Worship Team
Worship Team
WE PRAISE YOU
Worship Team
Worship Team
WHAT A MIRACLE
Worship Team
Worship Team
I STAND AMAZED (HOW MARVELOUS)
Worship Team
Worship Team
NEXT STEPS
What is your next real life practical action step of faith and commitment? Consider one of these:
1. OPPORTUNITY FOR SUNDAY VOLUNTEERS: We invite you to join the Team of Counters - as often as your schedule permits. Your help is needed to count the Tithes & Offerings that are so generously given during worship. Don't worry. There's easy onboarding training and oversight for companionship, encouragement, and accountability. Contact Kennon Cogdell (silly_yak@me.com). You are greatly appreciated!
2. MISSION TEAM: There are many opportunities in which Pathways can partner with our missionaries serving and sharing Jesus in our global community. If you are interested in developing these opportunities to learn about, embrace, and engage God's global ministry, then join our Missions Team! Please use the link below to contact Pastor Jonathan Der or Ellen Teague.
3. NEXT SERMON SERIES FOR OCTOBER 2024: Generosity
Pathways is trying to become the kind of church where her members believe and live in the truth that God is real. As such, He has real and observable affect upon our daily lives. The rewards of a daily relationship with Jesus compel us to love others in real ways that are different from the world's ways. We are called to generosity in all forms to reflect our appreciation of God's inconceivable generosity to each of us. Don't miss this series! Invite a friend!
*Join a Group! Fall at Pathways is an exciting time of new beginnings and new opportunities. Get to know others and enjoy the fellowship as you grow in faith and serving others. There's a place for everyone to plug-in.
Use the link below to Join a Group!
What is your next real life practical action step of faith and commitment? Consider one of these:
1. OPPORTUNITY FOR SUNDAY VOLUNTEERS: We invite you to join the Team of Counters - as often as your schedule permits. Your help is needed to count the Tithes & Offerings that are so generously given during worship. Don't worry. There's easy onboarding training and oversight for companionship, encouragement, and accountability. Contact Kennon Cogdell (silly_yak@me.com). You are greatly appreciated!
2. MISSION TEAM: There are many opportunities in which Pathways can partner with our missionaries serving and sharing Jesus in our global community. If you are interested in developing these opportunities to learn about, embrace, and engage God's global ministry, then join our Missions Team! Please use the link below to contact Pastor Jonathan Der or Ellen Teague.
3. NEXT SERMON SERIES FOR OCTOBER 2024: Generosity
Pathways is trying to become the kind of church where her members believe and live in the truth that God is real. As such, He has real and observable affect upon our daily lives. The rewards of a daily relationship with Jesus compel us to love others in real ways that are different from the world's ways. We are called to generosity in all forms to reflect our appreciation of God's inconceivable generosity to each of us. Don't miss this series! Invite a friend!
*Join a Group! Fall at Pathways is an exciting time of new beginnings and new opportunities. Get to know others and enjoy the fellowship as you grow in faith and serving others. There's a place for everyone to plug-in.
Use the link below to Join a Group!
Missions Team
We live in MoCo. That means we embrace diversity, multiethnicity, multiculturalism, intergenerational dynamics, and everything else that is complex, because they are each and all reflections of God's complex unity. Help us celebrate God's work in that complexity, across the globe, here at Pathways. How can we better support our missionaries? How can we better know about and embrace their efforts as our own? How can we grow in passion and purpose such that we eagerly desire to go "there" to support, partner with, learn from, and love what God is doing across the globe? Want to see our Pathways' Mission passion grow? So do we. Join the team!
https://pathways.family/MissionTeamThere's A Place For Everyone
Join a Group! Plug-in and get to know one another.
https://pathways.family/JoinAGroup
The Weekly Offering Moment
We offer a weekly Offering Moment for your spiritual growth. Are you, like so many of us, caught in the accidental idolatry of money? Will you engage weekly in the spiritual act of fighting that idolatry by thanking God, the true source of all of our resources? God promises that a freedom from idolatry of any kind can be a life filled with fullness and joy and love and freedom. He invites you into this life of giving generously. Will you consider a spiritual act of generosity? Please use the link below and select "General Fund."
https://pathways.family/givingAMAZING GRACE
Worship Team
Worship Team
Personal Invitations Survey
Pathways desperately needs to shift postures from an institutional church model that uses mass marketing to grow, choosing instead to embrace the posture of a vibrant ministry of meeting needs and caring for others via personal one on one invitations.
Here are a few prompts to help us help you make that posture shift.
https://pathways.family/Personal-InvitationsHere are a few prompts to help us help you make that posture shift.
Definitions of Mission
Broad definitions of “missions”:
*The organized effort to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world
Healthier definition from one theologian Graham Joseph Hill
*“Christian mission is joining God’s work in redeeming and restoring all humanity and creation through Jesus Christ.”
Broad definitions of “missions”:
*The organized effort to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world
Healthier definition from one theologian Graham Joseph Hill
*“Christian mission is joining God’s work in redeeming and restoring all humanity and creation through Jesus Christ.”
Evaluating the Health of Pathways in Missions
The Kingdom Worker Challenge Card Ceremony
RECKLESS LOVE
Worship Team
Worship Team
Pray with an Elder:
Our Elders are available following the service to pray with you! Share the burdens of your heart with a Pathways Elder and let them comfort you with prayer. God hears the prayers of His people.
Our Elders are available following the service to pray with you! Share the burdens of your heart with a Pathways Elder and let them comfort you with prayer. God hears the prayers of His people.
Benediction:
“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!
-Romans 10:13-14
“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!
-Romans 10:13-14
Healthy Church: Missions - Through the Week Guide
One of the spiritual rhythms of a growing follower of Jesus Christ is to engage with Him daily. Use one of the reading plans above, or consider the guide here.
https://pathways.family/Through-the-Week-Missions
Bringing People Together At Pathways
Connection Card
We want to hear from you. Your comments are important to us. Maybe you would like to speak to one of our pastors. Maybe you are seeking a small group to connect with others, have a prayer request, interested in baptism or membership at Pathways. Please use the link below and let us know how we can help you as you grow in the knowledge and wisdom of God.
https://pathways.family/CONNECT2PATHWAYSGOD IS FAITHFUL RECORDINGS
Ebenezer Sunday Stories: Hear the testimony of several volunteers as they have encountered the goodness of God's faithfulness in challenging circumstances.
https://pathways.family/EbenezerSundayStories
Last Call! 2-3 spots left. Sign ups end on Sept 18th.
Save Your Spot for the Winter Rooted Experience!
At the moment, we're offering Wednesdays, January 18 - March 19, 2025. But if there is enough interest for the other meeting dates/times of the week (see the options in the sign up form), then we'll be glad to offer those if we have enough Rooted Facilitators.
https://pathways.family/Rooted-WinterSave your spot for the Spring Rooted Experience!
At the moment, we're offering Wednesdays, March 26, 2025 - June 4, 2025. But if there is enough interest for the other meeting dates/times of the week (see the options in the sign up form), then we'll be glad to offer those if we have enough Rooted Facilitators.
https://pathways.family/Rooted-SpringAn Online Search - Topical Bible
Type any search topic using the link below to find verses that address that topic.
http://www.openbible.info/topics/
Have A Blessed Week