The Order of Worship for May 28, 2023
Gathering & Preparation
“Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: ‘Be holy, because I am holy.’” (1 Peter 3: 13-16)
Welcome
Prelude
*Call to Worship
*Hymn #630 – Eternal Father, Strong to Save
*Prayer of Adoration
*Affirmation of Faith – Apostles’ Creed (Trinity Hymnal p.845)
Unison Prayer of Confession
Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what our lips tremble to name, what our hearts can no longer bear, and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment. Set us free from a past that we cannot change; open to us a future in which we can be changed; and grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness and image; through Jesus Christ, the light of the world.
Silent Prayer
Assurance & Comfort of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Worship through Giving
Offertory
*Hymn #731 – Doxology
*Prayer of Thanksgiving
*Hymn #570 – Faith of Our Fathers!
Scripture Reading: Luke 23:44-49
Sermon: “A Veteran Amazes Jesus” by Rev. John McElwain
*Hymn – By Faith
Getty Music (2009)
Prayer of Intercession for Christ’s Church and the World
*Hymn – God Be Merciful to Me
Indelible Grace (1997)
*Benediction
Postlude
Announcements
