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Worship Guide

9 a.m. Contemporary

Gathering Song: LET US LOVE AND SING AND WONDER  

Welcome and Announcements

Call to Worship:

One: Let us worship the eternal God, the source of love and life, who creates us.

All: Let us worship Jesus Christ, the risen one, who lives among us.

One: Let us worship the Spirit, the holy fire, who renews us.

All: To the one true God be praise in all times and places, through the grace of Jesus Christ.

PRAISE MY SOUL THE KING OF HEAVEN / FOREVER REIGN / LET THIS HEART NOT WANDER

Prayers of the People & THE LORD’S PRAYER

First Scripture Lesson: Acts 2:22-24, 32-29 (p.1078)

NO ONE IN HIS GRAVE

Children’s Sermon

Sermon: “One Gospel,” Scripture: 1 Peter 1:18-25 (p.1200)

Confession of Faith: (based on Romans 14:8; 1 Corinthians 15:54-55; 2 Corinthians 4:6; 5:15, 17; Ephesians 5:8-10; Colossians 2:12)

One: Christ died for all, in order that they who are alive may live no longer for themselves but for him who died for them and rose again.

All: Thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

One: If then, any are in Christ, they are a new creation; the former things have passed away: behold, they are made new.

All: Thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

One: For God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts, to give enlightenment concerning

the knowledge of the glory of God, shining on the face of Christ Jesus.

All: Thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

One: For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

One: Walk, then, as children of light, for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and truth, and test what is well pleasing to God.

All: Thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

One: For if we live, we live to the Lord, or if we die, we die to the Lord.

All: Whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

One: You were buried together with Christ in baptism, and in him also you rose again through faith in the working of God who raised him from the dead.

All: Whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

One: “Death is swallowed up in victory! O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

All: Thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen

 THE LORD’S SUPPER

Communion Song: HALLELUJAH, WHAT A SAVIOR

THERE IS ONE GOSPEL

Benediction

11:15 Traditional

Prelude: “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah” arr. Manz, Karen Holl, Organist

Gathering Hymn: LET US LOVE AND SING AND WONDER

Let us love and sing and wonder Let us praise the Savior’s name

He has hushed the law’s loud thunder He has quenched Mt. Sinai’s flame

He has washed us with his blood He has brought us nigh to God

 

Let us love the Lord who bought us Pitied us when enemies

Called us by His grace and taught us Gave us ears and gave us eyes

He has washed us with his blood He presents our souls to God

 

Let us sing, though fierce temptation Threatens hard to bear us down

For the Lord our strong Salvation Holds in view the conqueror’s crown

He has washed us with his blood Soon will bring us home to God

 

Let us wonder grace and justice Join and point to mercy’s store

When through grace in Christ our trust is Justice smiles and asks no more

He who washed us with his blood Has secured our way to God

 

Welcome and Announcements

Call to Worship:

One: Let us worship the eternal God, the source of love and life, who creates us.

All: Let us worship Jesus Christ, the risen one, who lives among us.

One: Let us worship the Spirit, the holy fire, who renews us.

All: To the one true God be praise in all times and places, through the grace of Jesus Christ.

PRAISE MY SOUL THE KING OF HEAVEN (478)

Prayers of the People & THE LORD’S PRAYER (p.16)

First Scripture Lesson: Acts 2:22-24, 32-29 (p.1078)

HALLELUJAH, WHAT A SAVIOR!

Man of sorrows what a name

For the Son of God who came

Ruined sinners to reclaim

Hallelujah what a Savior!

 

Bearing shame and scoffing rude

In my place condemned He stood

Sealed my pardon with His blood

Hallelujah what a Savior!

 

Guilty vile and helpless we

Spotless Lamb of God was He

Full atonement can it be

Hallelujah what a Savior!

 

Lifted up was He to die

It is finished was His cry

Now in heaven exalted high

Hallelujah what a Savior!

 

When He comes our glorious King

All His ransomed home to bring

Then anew this song we’ll sing

Hallelujah what a Savior!

Sermon: “One Gospel,” Scripture: 1 Peter 1:18-25 (p.1200)

Confession of Faith: (based on Romans 14:8; 1 Corinthians 15:54-55; 2 Corinthians 4:6; 5:15, 17; Ephesians 5:8-10; Colossians 2:12)

One: Christ died for all, in order that they who are alive may live no longer for themselves but for him who died for them and rose again.

All: Thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

One: If then, any are in Christ, they are a new creation; the former things have passed away: behold, they are made new.

All: Thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

One: For God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts, to give enlightenment concerning

the knowledge of the glory of God, shining on the face of Christ Jesus.

All: Thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

One: For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

One: Walk, then, as children of light, for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and truth, and test what is well pleasing to God.

All: Thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

One: For if we live, we live to the Lord, or if we die, we die to the Lord.

All: Whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

One: You were buried together with Christ in baptism, and in him also you rose again through faith in the working of God who raised him from the dead.

All: Whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

One: “Death is swallowed up in victory! O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

All: Thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen

 

THE LORD’S SUPPER

Communion Song: “There is One Gospel”

CLOSING HYMN: JUST AS I AM (370)

Benediction

Discussion Questions
  • What encouragement and comfort does it bring you that Jesus was not Plan B, but His salvation was the foreknown plan of God from before the world was formed?
  • In what other ways are you tempted to try to find purpose and/or salvation? 
  • How do you push back against God’s sovereignty? How do you try to assert sovereignty over your life? How is it more comforting that God is sovereign?
  • How has God revealed Jesus to you? What do you respond to knowing that His salvation is personal? 
  • Do you believe? If so, what will you do with that belief?