Order of Worship

Sunday, February 7, 2020

We extend a warm welcome to all our visitors this morning! Visitors, please complete the Welcome card in the pew rack and put it in the offering plate, so we may know how best to minister to/with you. Let’s prepare our hearts with silent Bible reading, meditation, and prayer before the service begins.

PRAISE (We Acknowledge God’s Majesty)

PRELUDE                                          Praise Team         

*HYMN 34                 The God of Abraham Praise  

*CALL TO WORSHIP                                         Psalm 118:26-29

Leader: Blessed I she who comes in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord. 

All: The Lord is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords, up to the horns of the altar! 

Leader: You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you. 

All: Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

*PRAISE SONGS            Dawning Light of Our Salvation

                                                        It Is Finished

*INVOCATION

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH             The Apostle’s Creed (p. 845)

CONSECRATION (We Surrender Our Lives to Christ)

*HYMN 478                   I Love To Tell The Story                                    

THE OFFERING                                                      Luke 6:38

“…give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

OFFERTORY                                                            Faith Choir

* Doxology: Hymnal, p. 731

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  

PRAYER OF DEDICATION

PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION                                     John Armstrong

SCRIPTURE TEXT                                             Matthew 20:17-28

SERMON               “Called to Serve”                              John Armstrong

COMMUNION (God Confirms His Promises to Us)

CORPORATE PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Leader: Lord Jesus Christ, though being in very nature God, when you came to redeem us you humbled yourself and made yourself nothing. Though you were rich, for our sakes you became poor, so that through your poverty we might become rich. 

All: We confess how unlike you we are in our attitudes and actions. We strive for recognition from others, and we sulk and become bitter if we do not get it. We attend to our own needs and concerns, yet fail to care for others except when it serves our purposes.  Forgive us our sin and renew our hearts. Grant us to realize that we only achieve greatness and gain our lives by giving them away. Work in us by the power of your Spirit so that we become more like you and so bring glory to our Father in heaven, for we pray in Jesus name, Amen. 

SILENT CONFESSION

SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER

*HYMN 429             Let Thy Blood In Mercy Poured

*BENEDICTION

*POSTLUDE                                                                                              

*Congregation standing if able

For 2021, we are continuing to provide a basic Family Worship plan to help enable our families to more regularly worship together during the week. In each weekly bulletin, we will provide a Daily Bible Reading plan from “A Daughter of the Reformation”, weekly questions from the Heidelberg Catechism, and a hymn for you to learn together.

Week 6:

Weekly Hymn:   304 I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say

                        https://youtu.be/8mXMQqiLW9c

Heidelberg Catechism–

• Q7 From where, then, did man’s depraved nature come? /
  Answer: From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise, for there our nature became so corrupt that we are all conceived and born in sin.
• Q8 But are we so corrupt that we are totally unable to do any good and inclined to all evil?

Answer: Yes, unless we are regenerated by the Spirit of God

Bible Reading:

Mon- 2/8 – Exodus 17-20

Tue – 2/9 – Exodus 21-24

Wed – 2/10 – Exodus 25-28

Thurs – 2/11 – Exodus 29-32

Fri – 2/12 – Exodus 33-36

Sat – 2/13 – Psalms 19-21

Sun – 2/14 – Proverbs 7

A Look at Next Week

Sermon Text: Matthew 20:29-34

Praise Music:    Days of Elijah

                        Ancient of Days

Hymns: 381 Brethren We Have Met To Worship

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Hearing assistance and large print pew Bibles are available during the worship service.  Please contact an usher for assistance.

Communion – We are having communion today Sunday, February 7^th.

Women in the Church – All women in the church are invited to participate in an upcoming new Women’s Bible study on the book of I Peter –A Living Hope in Christ by Jen Wilkin. We will utilize Zoom video conferencing to conduct the study. Our next study will be Saturday, February 13th at 9:00 am.  If you have any questions, please contact Christine Stalnaker (CStalnaker7862@gmail.com )

Small Group Leaders Meeting – Are you interested in leading a small group? Have you lead a small group in the past?  If not, are you willing to be trained or maybe you’ve been trained and want to put that training to good use.  If so, we want to invite you to come to a meeting hosted by the Committee on Discipleship Ministries on Saturday, February 13th at 11:00AM.  Our plan is to set out some guidelines for establishing small groups and encouraging potential leaders to get started establishing groups in the church.

Officer Elections in February – We are voting on extending Ruling Elders in service at a congregational meeting on February 14^th.  Ruling Elders having been reexamined and approved for standing for continuation in office are: Charlie Van Meter, Rich Rochford, David Johnston, and Martin Hudzinski.