David is aware that it’s not just the words he brings, not just “a good talk,” that opens our hearts. This Sunday he references Acts 17, where Paul visited three cities, following the same protocol each time: he’d go to the local synagogue and reason with them from the scriptures. But each city received him differently: in Thessalonica, following a riot, Paul and Silas fled under cover of darkness; in Berea, the people “received the word with great eagerness”; and in Athens, some sneered while others joined him and believed

Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | Acts | www.thedoor.org

Jim Lane will speak from Lk 10:38-42, the familiar story of Jesus at the home of Mary and Martha, Jim has several questions for us to ponder with him:

· What compelled Mary? (to let go of all the doing, to be where Jesus was and hear what He said)

· Are we seeing where He is?

· Are we hearing what He has to say, particularly about us?

· What would happen if it was all taken away? …if all of the structure that our church communities provide around these things... all the doing... were suddenly no more? What would be left? How would we hear His words about us? To know to go where He would go and have us go?

Teaching Pastor: Jim Lane, Guest Speaker | www.thedoor.org

David recounted last Sunday of the Acts 16 stories of God’s “going down ANY road He thinks might lead to you,” we now find Paul and Silas beaten and jailed for “throwing the city into confusion.” But around midnight, in the midst of the darkness, filth, and pain, “Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them…” Then an earthquake shook the prison’s foundations; the doors were opened; and everyone’s chains were unfastened.

David's question is, “Where did that song come from??” We don’t know how or why they worshiped and prayed in the pain, with no hope of release – but it was while they were worshipping that their (and everyone else’s) chains were undone.

Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | Acts | www.thedoor.org

Dave brings us to the Communion Table this Sunday with three stories from Acts 16 that lay out the heart of God toward us – a God who so longs for us that He will walk down any road if He thinks it might lead Him to us..

Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | Acts | www.thedoor.org

David continues with the theme of listening for God, as the elders of Acts 13 did. However, there are times when we don't hear the Voice of God, when it gets dim and confusing, as Paul experienced in Acts 16. What are we to do then??

Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | www.thedoor.org

Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | www,thedoor,org

Teaching Pastors: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor and Al Schuck, Community Life Pastor | www.thedoor.org

Teaching Pastor: Sara Richards, Next Generation Pastor | www.thedoor.org

Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | Acts | www.thedoor.org

Dave points out that there’s always a storm. In the middle of the storm, we need discernment to know how we’re supposed to respond; and in order to discern, we need to know that Voice, so we can follow.

Teaching Pastor: Tom Johnson, Missional Life Pastor | www.thedoor.org

Tom Johnson and Steve Hanson speak on what it means to go where Jesus is and do what Jesus is doing among the least and lost, the disenfranchised, the disregarded and overlooked.

Yau Stillone will be sharing how her just-completed two-year Center for Spiritual Formation experience has changed the way she looks at the world around her. Yau is walking out the truth that how we’re formed changes how we are in the world.