Prepare For Sunday | October 25th, 2026
This Is My Story…My Song: A Marriage on Mission
Priscilla and Aquila | Acts 18
When we think about the people God has used to change the world, we naturally think of extraordinary individuals—gifted leaders, courageous missionaries, and powerful preachers. But behind many of the great movements of God are ordinary people whose names rarely make the headlines, yet whose quiet faithfulness makes an extraordinary difference.
This Sunday, in our series This Is My Story…My Song, we meet Priscilla and Aquila, a husband and wife whose lives were caught up in the unfolding story of the early church. They weren’t apostles or famous preachers. They were hardworking people who made tents for a living. But when they encountered the Apostle Paul, their ordinary lives became part of something extraordinary.
They opened their home, shared their work, strengthened Paul’s ministry, helped instruct one of the early church’s most gifted preachers, and even risked their lives for the sake of the gospel. Wherever they went, they made room for Jesus to work through them. Their marriage, their home, their friendships, and their livelihood all became instruments in God’s hands.
Their story reminds us that Jesus builds his church not only through extraordinary leaders, but through ordinary people who faithfully make room for others. What might happen if we began to see our homes, our work, our marriages, and our everyday relationships as opportunities to participate in God’s extraordinary mission?
Join us Sunday as we discover what it means to live A Marriage on Mission.
This Is My Story…My Song
A Marriage on Mission: Priscilla and Aquila
Acts 18:1–28
Big Idea: Jesus builds his church through ordinary people who faithfully make room for others.
1. They Made Room in Their Lives
The Ministry of Friendship — Acts 18:1–3
2. They Made Room in Their Home
The Ministry of Hospitality — Acts 18:18–19; 1 Corinthians 16:19
3. They Made Room for Others to Flourish
The Ministry of Discipleship — Acts 18:24–28
The Legacy of a Life on Mission — Romans 16:3–5
An ordinary couple. An open home. A shared life. An extraordinary impact for the kingdom of God.
Discussion Questions:
Heartbeat: Priscilla and Aquila never sought the center of the story. They made room in their work, their home, and their lives for others to flourish, and Jesus built his church through it.
Invitation: Paul arrived in Corinth beaten, run out of three cities, mocked in Athens, and in his own words weak and afraid. Before God gave him a vision, he gave him two friends and a job. Who made room for you when you were at a low point, and what did they actually do?
Gifts: Paul found them through their trade. What’s ordinary about your work or your weekly rhythm that might already be a doorway for someone, even if you’ve never thought of it that way?
Ownership: They lost their home in Rome, and wherever they landed they opened another one. What’s your reason for keeping your door mostly closed right now? How much of that is circumstance, and how much is preference?
Ownership: Apollos was eloquent, bold, and partly wrong, and they took him aside instead of correcting him in public. When you notice someone missing something, are you more likely to stay quiet or to say it in a way that costs them? What would taking someone aside look like for you? Then flip it: when have you been the Apollos?
Possibility: Paul says all the churches of the Gentiles gave thanks for this couple. Whether you’re married, single, or sharing a house with roommates, imagine someone giving thanks for your home twenty years from now. What would you hope they’d say, and what would have to start now?
Gifts: They spent their lives strengthening the people God was using. Who around you right now is gifted, stretched thin, and maybe a little alone? What do you have that they need?
Commitment: Room in your life, room in your home, room for someone else to flourish: which one is God pressing on you? Name one person and one step for this month, and tell someone here.
Call to Worship
Psalm 100:1–5
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!
Serve the LORD with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!
Know that the LORD, he is God!
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!
For the LORD is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,
and his faithfulness to all generations.
Confession of Sin
Leader: Let us confess our sins together.
Congregation: Gracious and merciful Father, You have loved us with an everlasting love and called us to love one another. Yet we confess that our love is often weak, our hearts are often selfish, and our lives are too easily consumed with our own concerns.
Leader: You have blessed us with homes, resources, relationships, and opportunities to serve, yet we have often held tightly to what you have given us. We have sought our own comfort rather than the good of others. We have neglected those in need, withheld hospitality, and missed opportunities to encourage and strengthen your people.
Congregation: Forgive us, Lord, for the ways we have lived for ourselves rather than for you. Renew our hearts by your Spirit. Teach us to love sincerely, serve joyfully, give generously, and welcome others as Christ has welcomed us. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Assurance of Pardon
Hear the good news of the gospel from Ephesians 2:8–10:
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
Brothers and sisters, our hope is not in how faithfully we have loved, served, or welcomed others, but in Jesus Christ, who has loved us perfectly and given himself for us. Through faith in him, we are forgiven and made new—not because of our works, but entirely by his grace.
All: Thanks be to God!
Songs of Worship
God is For Us
This Is Our God
How Great Is Our God
Goodness of God
