Order of Worship

Order of Worship
Lord’s Day, August 13th, 2006, 10:30am
The Season After Pentecost

“Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.” –John Calvin

A Prayer of Preparation:
To your name, Lord Jesus, help me to bow the knee and its worshiping, bow the head and all its thinking, bow the will and all its choosing, bow the heart and all its loving. Amen.

Prelude                  

Welcome & Announcements

Silent Meditation      
          
Call to Worship     Psalm 34:1-8

Leader: The Lord be with you
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts.
People: We lift them up to the Lord.
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People: It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Prayer of Invocation  (The Lord’s Prayer)

*Hymn of Adoration# 342    Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation
       
OT Reading     Psalm 28
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!

Prayer of Confession
Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from Your ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against Your holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is nothing good in us. O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare those, O God, who confess their faults. Restore those who are penitent; according to Your promises declared unto men in Christ Jesus our Lord. Grant that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life; to the glory of His name. Ame

Words of Comfort and Promise
If you O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared.

*Hymn of Response # 349   O Thou Who the Shepherd of Israel Art

Confession  of Faith
Apostles’ Creed (pg. 845 in Trinity Hymnal)

Tithes and Offerings

*Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host: praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Uniting Our Hearts in Prayer

*Hymn of Response  # 353 I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord

*God’s Word to Us           

Scripture Reading      John 10:25-30
     Leader: This is the Word of Lord!
     People:   Thanks be to God!     

Prayer for Illumination

Sermon       Mr. Steve Wolters
                  Gathered, Protected, and Preserved

Corporate Response
Heidelberg Catechism # 54
Leader: What do you believe concerning “the holy catholic church”?
People:  I believe that the Son of God through his Spirit and Word, out of the entire human race, from the beginning of the world to its end, gathers, protects, and preserves for himself a community chosen for eternal life and united in true faith. And of this community I am and always will be a living member.

*Song of Response # 348 Jesus, With Thy Church Abide

*Benediction

Postlude

“Go…and tell the people the full message of this new life” Acts 5:20

* Congregation Standing