Songs:
“This Is My Father’s World“ by Maltbie D. Babcock, Mary Crawford Babcock and Franklin Lawrence Sheppard
“Lord I Need You“ by Daniel Carson, Matt Maher, Christy Nockels, Jesse Reeves and Kristian Stanfill
“Here Is Love (Unto Christ)“ by William Reese, Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty, Matt Boswell
“Come Behold The Wondrous Mystery“ by Matt Boswell, Matt Papa and Michael Bleecker
“Doxology” by Thomas Ken and Louis Bourgeois
All songs are used by Permission. CCLI License #200369
Call To Worship: Eternal God
Eternal God, you set Jesus Christ to rule over all things and made us servants in your kingdom. By your Spirit empower us to love the unloved and to minister to all in need. Then at the last bring us into your eternal kingdom, where we may worship and adore you and be welcomed into your everlasting joy. We offer this prayer through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
Confession: Our Salvation
Leader: How does God save you?
People: God forgives my sins and reconciles me to himself through his Son, Jesus Christ, whom he has given to the world as an undeserved gift of love. “God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Leader: Why does God save you?
People: Because he loves me, God saves me from sin and judgment, so that I may love and serve him for his glory.
Leader: Who is Jesus Christ?
People: Jesus is the eternal Son of God, the Savior of the world. Fully divine, he took on our human nature, died on the Cross for our sins, rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, and now rules as Lord and King over all creation.
Source: ACNA, Questions 6, 7, 8
Classic Prayer: Matthew Henry, 1662-1714
You are the King eternal, immortal, invisible. Before the mountains were brought forth or you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You are the same yesterday, today and forever. At the beginning of time you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They shall perish, but you endure. All of them shall age as though they were articles of clothing. You shall treat them as a change of garments, and they shall be discarded. But you are the same, and your years shall never end. You are the same, yesterday, today, and forever. (Hebrews 13:8)