Lord’s Day, January 28th, 2007, 10:30am
The Christian Year: Third Sunday After the Epiphany
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Silent Meditation:
Therefore, whosoever commits the success (of the gospel) to God, and goes on forward where He bids him, he shall at length experience the joy that all salvation comes from His appointment. --Calvin
Call to Worship 1 Chronicles 16.23-25, 28-29
(Responsive reading)
Leader: Sing to the LORD, all the earth! Tell of His salvation from day to day. Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous works
among all the peoples! For great is the LORD, and greatly to be
praised, and He is to be held in awe above all gods!
People: Ascribe to the LORD, O clans of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength! Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name!
Minister: The Lord be with you.
People: And with your spirit.
Minister: Lift up your hearts!
People: We lift them up to the Lord!
Minister: Let us give thanks unto our Lord God.
People: It is right to give Him thanks and praise.
Prayer of Invocation (The Lord’s Prayer)
*Hymn of Adoration No. 455 And Can It Be That I Should Gain
OT Reading Isaiah 52
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
Corporate Prayer of Confession
Psalter Reading pg. 804 in Trinity Hymnal
Psalm 51
Words of Comfort and Promise
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1
Hymn of Response No. 564 Blessed is the Man
Based on Psalm 1; arranged by Jim Thornton, 1969
Confession of Faith
The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father Almighty,the Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:
Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell.
The third day He arose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.
Amen.
Song The Father’s Love Medley
Tithes and Offerings
*Gloria Patri
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen, amen.
Uniting Our Hearts in Prayer
*Hymn of Response
How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds
(See Insert)
* Congregation Standing
*God’s Word to Us
Scripture Reading Acts 8:26-40
Leader: This is the Word of Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
Prayer for Illumination
Sermon: Mr. Duane Griffin
“Philip, A Powerful Model for Evangelism”
*Hymn of Thanksgiving No.469
How Sweet And Awesome Is The Place
Isaac Watts
*Benediction
Postlude
“Go…and tell the people the full message of this new life” Acts 5:20
The Liturgy, then, is common worship, concorporate worship, worship in one mind and with one heart, and with one mouth.
Dorothy Day
The renaissance of sacred music in the secular world occurred in the last 25 years, precisely the period in which the Catholic liturgy itself was shredded.
Richard Morris
The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.
Joseph Ratzinger
The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
Pope Paul VI
There is no excuse for not preserving the chant or not making it an active part of the Catholic liturgy everywhere.
Richard Morris
It is in the familiar structure of the Mass itself that a Catholic not only encounters but finds himself received into the very gospel itself, day by day, year after year... the entire liturgy is a seamless gospel fabric, so to speak. It is the gospel, in public, ceremonial, ritual, explicit form.
Thomas Howard
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Order of Worship
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2 comments:
Hey Uri,
I like the order of worship. In the last three years of church experience, I have come to appreciate the value of liturgical worship with its depth of meaning and richness. Leithart talks about how worship trains us to walk and dance rightly through life. The way it does this is by teaching us the postures of living before God(kneeling to confess, standing to sing and praise, sittiing to eat and drink). And since all life is lived in the presence of God, christian worship, with its rituals and liturgy, displays publically what the world will one day be like. Leithart concludes, "Ritual is also movement and drama and music. It not only displays the world as it is/ought to be, but trains us as a body how to live these realities".
Thanks for writing this.
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