Order of Service
for
Sun., 15 August 2010
for
Sun., 15 August 2010
✙ ✙ ✙ Assemble in God's Name ✙ ✙ ✙
The Welcome & Announcements: Elder Charlotte Clements
* The Passing of the Peace: Elder Charlotte Clements
- Leader: Since we have been justified through faith, we now have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us live into and share this peace & grace with our neighbors in all we do. May the peace of Christ be with you.
- People: And also with you.
* The Call to Worship: Elder Charlotte Clements
- Leader: God is good!
- People: All the time!
- Leader: All the time. . .
- People: God is good!
- Unison: Because that is His nature!
- (The Benedictus / Luke 1:68 - 75)
- Leader:“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David, as He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from of old, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us;
- People:To show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant, the oath that He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.
- Unison: Sing praises to the Lord, for He has done gloriously; let this be known in all the earth. Shout aloud and sing for joy, O royal Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.
* Hymn: “ O for a Thousand Tongues ” # 76
* The Call to Confession: Pastor Stuart
* The Assurance of Pardon:
* The Call to Confession: Pastor Stuart
- Pastor: For all have sinned and fallen short of God’s Glory, Yet the miracle of God’s love is this, that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Therefore If we confess our sins and seek His face in faith God, who is faithful and just will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. In humility and faith let us confess our sins before Him. [Romans 3:23, 5:8 & I John 1:9]
- Unison: Almighty God, creator of all, You marvelously made us in Your image; but we have corrupted ourselves and damaged Your likeness by rejecting Your love and hurting our neighbors. We have done wrong and neglected to do right. We are sincerely sorry and heartily repent of our sins. Cleanse us and forgive us by the sacrifice of Your Son; remake us and lead us by Your Spirit the Comforter and Advocate. We ask this through Jesus Christ our merciful High Priest. Amen. [Adapted from Our Modern Services; the Anglican Church of Kenya; pg 35.]
* The Assurance of Pardon:
- Pastor: Hear the Good News! Who is in a position to condemn? Only Christ! And yet, Christ died for us; He rose for us; He reigns in power for us; and He prays for us. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, that one is a new creation. The old life is Gone and a new life has begun. Amen. [I Timothy 1:15 & I Peter 2:25]
✙ ✙ ✙ Hearing God’s Word ✙ ✙ ✙
The Prayer for Illumination: Elder Charlotte Clements
The Scripture Lesson: Pastor Stuart
Anthem: The Christy Girls
The Sharing of Joys and Concerns: Pastor Stuart
VBS Report Gail Hilton; VBS Kids & Helpers
The Offering:
The Offertory:
* The Doxology:
* The Offertory Prayer:
Sermon: “ What Do We Possess — The Truth or a Lie? ”
The Scripture Lesson: Pastor Stuart
- I John 5:6 - 12:
- 6 This is He who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the One Who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For there are three that testify: 8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. 9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that He has borne concerning His Son. 10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning His Son. 11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
- Pastor: This is the Word of the Lord!
- People: Thanks be to God.
Anthem: The Christy Girls
The Sharing of Joys and Concerns: Pastor Stuart
VBS Report Gail Hilton; VBS Kids & Helpers
The Offering:
The Offertory:
* The Doxology:
* The Offertory Prayer:
Sermon: “ What Do We Possess — The Truth or a Lie? ”
✙ ✙ ✙ Responding to God’s Word ✙ ✙ ✙
* The Affirmation of Faith: The Apostles’ Creed
- Unison: I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth;
- And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
- I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.
* Hymn: "Onward Christian Soldiers" # 479
✙ ✙ ✙ Go Forth in God's Name ✙ ✙ ✙
* The Charge & Benediction:
* Threefold Amen:
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