July 17, 2022

Order of Worship

Sunday, July 17, 2022

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

Red Hymnal #507                   “Come, All Christians, Be Committed”

Call To Worship

Scripture Reading:                                                           I John 4:15-21

¹⁵ Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

¹⁶ So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

¹⁷ By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.

¹⁸ There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

¹⁹ We love because he first loved us.

²⁰ If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

²¹ And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Prayer of Invocation

Declaring What We Believe

Romans 8:38-39

“Neither death nor life, nor angels, nor rulers,

nor trials in the present, nor any trial to come;

neither height nor depth, nor all of creation

can ever separate us from the love of God

poured out in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Words and Music (NEITHER DEATH): from Romans 8:38-39, Marty Haugen (c) 2001 GIA Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted under OneLicense.net A-725261.

We Respond to God’s Presence

Come Praise and Glorify

(Based on Ephesians 1)

Come praise and glorify our God, the Father of our Lord

In Christ He has in heav’nly realms His blessings on us poured

For pure and blameless in His sight He destined us to be

And now we’ve been adopted through His Son eternally

Refrain:       To the praise of Your glory,

To the praise of Your mercy and grace

To the praise of Your glory

You are the God who saves

Come praise and glorify our God Who gives His grace in Christ

In Him our sins are washed away redeemed through sacrifice

In Him God has made known to us the myst’ry of His will

That Christ should be the head of all His purpose to fulfill     (Refrain)

Come praise and glorify our God for we’ve believed the Word

And through our faith we have a seal the Spirit of the Lord

The Spirit guarantees our hope until redemption’s done

Until we join in endless praise to God, the Three in One        (Refrain)

O for a Closer Walk with God

(O Fire of God)

O for a closer walk with God, a calm and heavenly frame.

A light to shine upon the road, leading to the Lamb.

Where is the blessedness I knew when first I saw the Lord?

Where is the soul-refreshing view of Jesus and His Word?

Refrain:   O fire of God, come burn within;

Renew a holy passion, till Christ my deepest longing be,

My never-failing fountain; My never-failing fountain.

What peaceful hours I once enjoyed, How sweet the mem’ry still!

But they have left an aching void the world can never fill.

The dearest idol I have known, Whate’er that idol be,

Help me tear it from Thy throne, And worship only Thee.

Repeat Refrain:

So shall my walk be close with God, calm and serene my frame;

So purer light shall mark the road, that leads me to the Lamb.

Repeat Refrain:

William Cowper (1731-1800), Adaptation, new words & music by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend © 2009

Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery

1. Come behold the wondrous myst’ry in the dawning of the King,

He the theme of heaven’s praises, robed in frail humanity.

In our longing, in our darkness, now the Light of Life has come.

Look to Christ, who condescended, took on flesh to ransom us.

2. Come behold the wondrous myst’ry, He the perfect Son of Man,

In His living, in His suffering, never trace nor stain of sin.

See the true and better Adam, come to save the hell-bound man.

Christ the great and sure fulfillment of the law, in Him we stand.

3. Come behold the wondrous myst’ry, Christ the Lord upon the tree.

In the stead of ruined sinners, hangs the Lamb in victory.

See the price of our redemption; see the Father’s plan unfold.

Bringing many sons to glory, grace unmeasured, love untold.

4. Come behold the wondrous myst’ry, slain by death the God of life,

But no grave could e’er restrain Him. Praise the Lord; He is alive!

What a foretaste of deliv’rance; how unwavering our hope.

Christ in power resurrected as we will be when He comes.

What a foretaste of deliv’rance; how unwavering our hope.

Christ in power resurrected as we will be when He comes.

© 2013 Getty Music Publishing (BMI). McKinney Music Inc. (BMI) (both adm. By MusicServices.org), Word and Music by Matt Boswell, Matt Papa and Michael Bleecker

Children’s Sermon

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

Sermon Hymn:

Love One Another

Refrain:    Love one another,___ Love one another,___

As I have loved you;

And care for each other,___Care for each other,___

As I have cared for you.

And bear one another’s burdens, and share each other’s joys.

And love one another,___ Love one another,___

And bring each other home.

1. Break and eat this bread: My life for you.

Take and drink this wine; My life live in you.

2. Forgive each other here as I’ve forgiven you.

Be friend to each other here as I’ve been friend to you.  (refrain)

3. Pray together here as I have prayed with you.

Serve each other here as I have served you.

4. Sing together here as I have sung with you.

Enjoy each other here as I’ve rejoiced with you.            (refrain)

Words and Music by Germaine Habjan. With permission through Onelicense.net license #725261-A

Today’s Message

Sermon Series: Life Through the Lens of the Gospel

“Do You Not Know the Problem with Suing Your Brother?”

I Corinthians 6:1-11

Notes

I. The _______________ Problem (I Cor. 6:1-6)

____________________ lawsuits

II. The __________________ Problem (I Cor. 6:7-8)

Not ___________________ the Gospel

III. The ____________ Problem                             (I Cor. 6:9-11)

_________________________ the Gospel

We Are Sent Forth in Worship

to Share the Gospel

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

Benediction