2024 THEME: Run with the Horses

SERIES: Follow Their Lead!

TITLE: Hope and Hospitality

Scripture: Genesis 12-23; Acts 16:11-15

I. WAITING AND HOPING

A lesson Sarah teaches us: we may be stuck in emotions of disappointment, despair, a little hope, but (DO NOT) take matters (into your own hands). 

Most important lesson: Don’t (give up hope).   

1. 1. 1. 1. Lam. 3:22-23 (p.401)  
         2. Eccl. 3:11 (p.319)

II. RESPONDING AND INVITING (Acts 16:3-15 (p.539)

In Lydia’s case there were two evidences of her faith:

1. 1. 1. 1. Her (baptism)
         2. Her (hospitality) 

Two costs Lydia was willing to pay:

1. 1. 1. 1. (Hospitality)
         2. Possible (imprisonment) 

Her hospitality gave Paul’s group a (base of operations) for them to plant a church.

NEXT WEEK: THEME: Run with the Horses
SERIES: Follow Their lead!
TITLE: : Second Place
SCRIPTURE: Gen. 4:1-8; Heb. 11:4; John 1:40-42