– – – -Liturgy for Sunday, July 5th, 2015- – – –
“We must obey God rather than men…”
Acts 5:29
“There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him[Christ], it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Prelude: We Will Feast In The House Of Zion (Sandra McCracken)
Gathering Song: Come Ye Sinners (Indelible Grace)
Call to Worship – We believe God is who calls and enables us to worship Himself rightly, in Spirit and truth, so we go to His word in seek of that…
Passages from Psalm 139
Prayer of Invocation – We pray each week asking God to direct our hearts, “prone to wander” as they are, to Himself as we sing, speak, and listen in our worship gathering…
Adoration:
How Great Is Our God (Tomlin)
O Help My Unbelief (Indelible Grace)
Call To Confession – Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
-Hebrews 3:12-14
(time of silent confession)
Assurance In Christ: adapted from Romans 8:1, Philippians 1:2, 6
Song of Response: This Is Amazing Grace (Wickham)
(Prayers for our City, Offering, and Doxology/Word of Praise)
Doxology
Praise God the Word in flesh appeared
Praise Him the Son of God sent here
Praise Him who sinless came to die
Praise Him who rose, now glorified
Amen
Hearing the Word: Acts 5:16-42 “Without Hindrance” (sermon audio posted separately)
Celebration of Communion
Sending: In Your Name (Miranda Dodson)
Benediction: (Numbers 6:24-26)
The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
Go in that peace!