What If?

Our second week looking at “new”s in the Acts of the Apostles. “The believers were scattered” in chapter 8, but did they learn anything new or try anything new? Might we learn something new from our present experiences. Today’s theme is “What if...” Join us on Sundays at 11am for Scattered Together. Watch, chat, worship, and pray together. belvoirparish.co.uk/live Service Notes Children's Activities Sermon Activities "Philip and the Ethiopian" Craft  ICMC Fundraiser 24 Hours - 250 Miles 🚴🚴🚴 Support Stephen McKinty and others in their Mid-Summer Cycling Madness to raise funds for India Christian Mission Centre. See details here Breakfast Club | Father's Day Next Week - A special Father's Day Breakfast Club to celebrate fathers, grandas, father figures and spiritual fathers. Create a "seat of honour" for the man in your house and make him breakfast and we can join together on zoom to share and celebrate before the Scattered Together service. Bible Reading Acts 8: 4-17 (NIVUK) Philip in Samaria 4 Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went. 5 Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah there. 6 When the crowds heard Philip and saw the signs he performed, they all paid close attention to what he said. 7 For with shrieks, impure spirits came out of many, and many who were paralysed or lame were healed. 8 So there was great joy in that city. Simon the sorcerer 9 Now for some time a man named Simon had practised sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great, 10 and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, ‘This man is rightly called the Great Power of God.’ 11 They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his sorcery. 12 But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptised, both men and women. 13 Simon himself believed and was baptised. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw. 14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. 15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 16 because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.