This Week
Announcements
Church Wide Small Group Campaign
Sunday September 8th
The Bridge Reno
We will be starting a 6 week church wide small group campaign based off the book “Anxious for Nothing” by Max Lucado. These days fear and doubt are around every corner but we as followers of Jesus want to live lives that are anxious for nothing. We are encouraging every Bridge attender to try a small group for these six weeks. We will have a sign up table in the welcome center this Sunday so you can pick up the book and sign up for a group. In order to get some new groups started we are looking for host homes and facilitators. If God is moving in your heart to fill one of these rolls please email smallgroups@thebridgereno.com
Kids Kingdom News
I am so excited about this Sunday. Pastor Rob Ham will be bringing the message. We will be voting on whether or not we want him to join us as our next Senior Pastor. Just a reminder, we will not have Kids Kingdom on Sunday. Let's all show him and his family a great Bridge Church welcome. We have finished our summer series "Camp Wannastay", and now we know what Jesus wants us to do in order to become leaders. Next Sunday we will start a new series. Come on back to find out what is in store for us. I want to ask everyone to please pray for Pastor Robb and his family. Pray for a safe trip and if God is Leading him to us and us to him we will ask him to join the best church in Reno. Can't wait to see everyone in service on Sunday. -Miss Terry
Sunday September 8th
The Bridge Reno
We will be starting a 6 week church wide small group campaign based off the book “Anxious for Nothing” by Max Lucado. These days fear and doubt are around every corner but we as followers of Jesus want to live lives that are anxious for nothing. We are encouraging every Bridge attender to try a small group for these six weeks. We will have a sign up table in the welcome center this Sunday so you can pick up the book and sign up for a group. In order to get some new groups started we are looking for host homes and facilitators. If God is moving in your heart to fill one of these rolls please email smallgroups@thebridgereno.com
Kids Kingdom News
I am so excited about this Sunday. Pastor Rob Ham will be bringing the message. We will be voting on whether or not we want him to join us as our next Senior Pastor. Just a reminder, we will not have Kids Kingdom on Sunday. Let's all show him and his family a great Bridge Church welcome. We have finished our summer series "Camp Wannastay", and now we know what Jesus wants us to do in order to become leaders. Next Sunday we will start a new series. Come on back to find out what is in store for us. I want to ask everyone to please pray for Pastor Robb and his family. Pray for a safe trip and if God is Leading him to us and us to him we will ask him to join the best church in Reno. Can't wait to see everyone in service on Sunday. -Miss Terry
Message Notes
We Are The Church
As the church, Jesus calls us to…
1. ___________________________ for the Holy Spirit.
In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Acts 1:1-5
For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 1 Corinthians 12:13
Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city. 13 When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. 14 They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers. Acts 1:12-14
2. Be His ___________________________ in this world.
Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:6-8
Why? Because… Jesus is _______________________________
After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. Acts 1:3
Jesus is _______________________________
After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.” Acts 1:9-11
1. ___________________________ for the Holy Spirit.
In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Acts 1:1-5
For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 1 Corinthians 12:13
Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city. 13 When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. 14 They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers. Acts 1:12-14
2. Be His ___________________________ in this world.
Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:6-8
Why? Because… Jesus is _______________________________
After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. Acts 1:3
Jesus is _______________________________
After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.” Acts 1:9-11
