June 1, 2025

Order of Worship

June 1, 2025

Welcome and Announcements

Gathering the Family Together

The Lord Be with You

Leader:    The Lord be with you__ __.

All:           And also with you __.

The Lord of heaven and earth __ be worshiped in this place.

The covenant of grace be renewed __ __ __.

The Lord __ be with you.

Leader:    Lord, open our lips __ __,

All:           And we’ll sing your praise __.

O Lord, your unfailing love __ and mercy will endure __

as fresh and bright and sure as morning sun __ __ __.

We bless you, Three in One!

Text © 2005 Reformed Church Press · Hymn Text © 1999 Ron Rienstra CCLI 172212

Call To Worship

Scripture Reading:                                                          Philemon 1:1-7

¹ Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker

² and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:

³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,

⁵ because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints,

⁶ and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.

⁷ For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.

Prayer of Invocation

Declaring What We Believe

We Are One in Christ Jesus

We are one in Christ Jesus, all one body, all one spirit, all together.

We are one in Christ Jesus, all one body, all one spirit, all together.

We share one God, one mighty Lord, one abiding faith, one binding love,

One single baptism, one Holy Comforter, the Holy Spirit, uniting all.

Words:Anonymous; English tr. Alice Parker (b. 1925) © 1996 Abingdon Press, admin. The Copyright Company Music: (SOMO UNO irregular): Anonymous; arr. Philip W. Blycker (b. 1939) © 1992 Celebremos/Libros Alianza

We Respond to God’s Presence

Red Hymnal #677                          “They’ll Know We Are Christians””

The Greatest Commands

Verse 1 (Alto; All women first time through):

Love one another, for love is of God.

He who loves is born of God and knows God.

He who does not love does not know God,

For God is love, God is love.

Verse 2 (Bass; All men first time through this section):

Love bears all things,

Believes all things,

Love hopes all things,

Endures all things.

Verse 3 (Tenor):

God is love, God is love, God is love.

God is love, God is love, God is love.

God is love, God is love, God is love.

God is love, God is love, God is love.

Verse 4 (Soprano):

Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.

With all thy soul, all thy strength, all thy mind.

Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,

For God is love, God is love, God is love.

Behold the Lamb

1. Behold the Lamb who bears our sins away, slain for us—

And we remember the promise made

that all who come in faith find forgiveness at the cross.

So we share in this bread of life,

and we drink of His sacrifice as a sign of our bonds of peace

Around the table of the King.

2. The body of our Savior Jesus Christ, torn for you—

eat and remember;

The wounds that heal,

the death that brings us life paid the price to make us one.

So we share in this bread of life,

and we drink of His sacrifice as a sign of our bonds of love

Around the table of the King.

3. The blood that cleanses every stain of sin, shed for you—

drink and remember

He drained death’s cup that all may enter in

to receive the life of God.

So we share in this bread of life,

and we drink of His sacrifice as a sign of our bonds of grace

Around the table of the King.

4. And so with thankfulness and faith we rise to respond—

and to remember

Our call to follow in the steps of Christ as His body here on earth.

As we share in His suffering, we proclaim Christ will come again!

And we’ll join in the feast of heaven

Around the table of the King.

Words and music by Keith & Kristyn Getty & Stuart Townend. Copyright © 2006 Thankyou Music. Used by permission.

Psalm 150B                                                                Blue Psalter, pg 996

“Praise Ye the Lord, Hallelujah”

Children’s Lesson

Membership

Kyle and Bridget Ordway

Pastoral Prayer

The basket to receive His tithes and our offerings

is located on the left as you leave the Sanctuary.

We Worship Through Hearing

Today’s Message

Sermon Series: Route 66 – Redemption Road

“Christ is Our Reconciler”

Philemon

Notes

I. As Mediator, He ______________ Us to God.

(Philemon 8-11, 17-19)

II. As Head, He ______________ a New Family.

(Philemon 15-16)

III. As Lord, He _______________ Gospel Living.

(Philemon 4-10, 20-22)

Communion

Prayer of Contrition

Sharing of the Elements

We invite to the Lord’s Table all those who are baptized disciples of Jesus Christ and are under the authority of Christ and His body, the Church. By eating the bread and drinking the wine with us as a visitor, you are acknowledging to the elders of this local church that you are in covenant with God and an active member of a congregation in which the gospel is faithfully confessed, taught, and believed. You also acknowledge that you are a sinner, without hope except in the sovereign mercy of God, and that you are trusting in Jesus Christ alone for salvation. If you have any doubt about your participation, please speak to the elders before or after the service.

Declaration of Forgiveness

We Are Sent Forth in Worship

to Share the Gospel

Red Hymnal #546                                               “We Are God’s People”

Benediction