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Worship Guide



Welcome!

We're so glad you are here. We hope you discover the same hope and life-change that we have found in Jesus. Discovery is more than just an hour on Sunday. We are a family -- family on mission in Tacoma!

We started Discovery to be a safe place for everyone in the community to experience God. Everyone is welcome here--with all your stories, questions, and doubts. Let's explore faith together.  

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Follow along with this Worship Guide as you watch the service. Grab a bible & a pen -- you'll want to take some notes.

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November 26th, 2023

MIA: Motivation, Inspiration, Accountability

Our Way Out

Jon Fredricks

Today’s Scripture: Luke 11:37-41 NIV


Luke 11:37-41 NIV

When Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so he went in and reclined at the table. But the Pharisee was surprised when he noticed that Jesus did not first wash before the meal. Then the Lord said to him, “Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.

Matthew 9:36 NIV

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

John 10:8-13 NIV

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.

Matthew 23:27 NIV

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.

Luke 6:45 NIV

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Ezekiel 36:26 ESV

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.


1) SLOW DOWN AND BREATHE

Psalm 90:12 ESV

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 46:10 NIV

He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”


2) FEED THE HUNGRY SOUL (WITH SCRIPTURE)

Matthew 4:4 NIV

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Joshua 1:8 NIV

Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. 

Romans 12:2 NIV

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.


3) GIVE FOR A CHANGE

Luke 11:41 NIV

But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.


AFTER THE LIVESTREAM

Pray
Jesus, I know that I have been separate from you my entire life. I have tried to pretend otherwise, but I realize today that my decisions, choices...my sin has separated me from God. I believe you are the Son of God and my only way forward. Please save me as I surrender the rest of my life into your hands. Thank you that you hear me!


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GIVING BACK TO GOD //

Thank for your continued generosity during this season. Tithes & offerings can be made online or by mail.

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Sharing Christ with compassion & developing followers fully devoted to Christ. 

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