Jul 26, 2026 · 46 min · 10 segments
Today’s text pushes the real reason why anyone would go to church. Series: Acts Speaker: Cliff Ursel Date: July 26, 2026 Text: Acts 16:1-5 To connect with us or find more resources visit us at…
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How many of you have... been to some kind of a reunion, like, I'm thinking like a family reunion or a school, high school reunion, something like that, where you've gotten to know some people and then there's been a period of time where you haven't seen them.
And for those of us that have had those types of situations in front of us, before the reunion, we all have one question in our heart and in our mind.
The question is, how is everybody doing? The reason why we ask a question like that is because it's possible that that time, that distance, that separation, so many things could have happened.
And for sometimes we fear that maybe there's been catastrophic things, hard things.
So we walk into these reunions, into these times of reconnection with people, with high emotions, but with a little bit, we're a little divided.
I'm really excited and there's a part of me that I'm a little nervous because I don't know if my heart is gonna break.
Like last week, Pastor Matt unpacked how Paul was planning to get the old band back together.
What I mean by that is Paul, in the chapters previous, has done the first missionary journey where he'd gone to different places, meeting different people.
And in today's text, Paul reconnects with different places and with different people.
And for Paul, it was also a little difficult because he had planned to go with Barnabas.
So in our text, as Paul comes back to the churches, where everything started in his first missionary journey, we see three things in our text.
How many of you have... been to some kind of a reunion, like, I'm thinking like a family reunion or a school, high school reunion, something like that, where you've gotten to know some people and then there's been a period of time where you haven't seen them.
And for those of us that have had those types of situations in front of us, before the reunion, we all have one question in our heart and in our mind.
The question is, how is everybody doing? The reason why we ask a question like that is because it's possible that that time, that distance, that separation, so many things could have happened.
And for sometimes we fear that maybe there's been catastrophic things, hard things.
So we walk into these reunions, into these times of reconnection with people, with high emotions, but with a little bit, we're a little divided.
I'm really excited and there's a part of me that I'm a little nervous because I don't know if my heart is gonna break.
Like last week, Pastor Matt unpacked how Paul was planning to get the old band back together.
What I mean by that is Paul, in the chapters previous, has done the first missionary journey where he'd gone to different places, meeting different people.
And in today's text, Paul reconnects with different places and with different people.
And for Paul, it was also a little difficult because he had planned to go with Barnabas.
So in our text, as Paul comes back to the churches, where everything started in his first missionary journey, we see three things in our text.
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