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WHAT HAPPENED DOWN THERE?
NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURE TEXT: ACTS 1:6-11

DAVE RING, PASTOR
LOS ALAMOS 1ST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 2008

NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURE TEXT: 6So when they met together, they asked him, "Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?" 7He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8But 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." 9After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.10They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11"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 1:6-11, NIV)

A MESSAGE OF APPROBATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT FOR GOD'S PEOPLE:

I. Where a dozen of us have recently been

II. What took place there

A. Our tasks

B. The precious people we met

C. The ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ

III. Why we went

A. Acts 1:8 - Jesus' "both/and" call to missions

B. For their sakes

C. For our sake

D. For His sake

IV. Looking ahead to the next opportunity

A. Can you go?

B. Can you give?

C. Can you pray?

D. Will you?

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