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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?