Part III: A Godly Community

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

Hebrews 12:28-29

Prelude

Welcome and Announcements

Introit        

Call to Worship*                                                         

1 Corinthians 5:7-8

Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Hymn of Praise*                                                                                #6

“O Come, My Soul, Bless Thou the Lord”

Invocation*

Confession of Faith                            

Westminster Shorter Catechism #39-41

Trinity Hymnal p. 872

Preparation for Confession of Sin                 

1 John 1:8

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Confession of Sin

Assurance of Pardon                                        

Isaiah 53:4-5

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.                 

Hymn of Assurance*                                                 

#353

“I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord”

Giving of Tithes and Offerings                        

Prayer of Response

Scripture Reading*                      

Psalm 119:1-16

James 5:1-12

Doxology*                                     

#733

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;

Praise Him all creatures here below;

Alleluia, alleluia!

Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost:

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia,

Alleluia, alleluia!

Taken from “Trinity Hymnal Revised Edition”, ©1990 Great Commission Publications, Inc. Used by permission.

Prayer of Intercession

Preaching of God’s Word                        

Pastor Scott Edburg

“Part III: A Godly Community”

Luke 6:37-49

Communion

Hymn of Affirmation                                               

#508

“Jesus, Lover of My Soul”

Benediction*                                               

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.         

Response*                                                                              

#598

(Tune only)

Glory be to God the Father, glory be to God the Son,

Glory be to God the Spirit, great Jehovah, Three-in-One!

One in might and One in glory

While eternal ages run, while eternal ages run!

Postlude*