Sunday, January 19, 2020

PLAYLIST FOR SONGS: APPLE MUSIC // SPOTIFY

Prelude: Death Was Arrested [Balltzglier, Coker, Smith]

CALL TO WORSHIP (Hebrews 4:14-16)

Song: How Majestic [Bolen, Eichelberger]

CONFESSION (based on Every Season Prayers, Scotty Smith)

Dear Lord Jesus, we praise, bless, and adore you for making peace between God and us. Through your finished work, we haven’t “just” been reconciled to God, but have become objects of his affection and children of his delight We praise you for tearing down the wall of hostility between Gentiles and Jews. This was always your plan: to make enemies into friends, to replace hostility with hospitality, enmity with empathy, and loathing with loving. In you, Lord, distinctions are no longer barriers that exclude, but bridges that unite. Diversity becomes a bouquet of beauty when the gospel is in play. Nothing is impossible for you. Jesus, we earnestly ask you to do this same enmity-destroying, heart-gentling peacemaking in our most broken relationships. Where high dividing walls have been built between us  —husbands and wives, between children and parents, in friendships and churches—thick walls made with bricks of pain and pride, betrayals and busyness, abuse and neglect—come and tear down our walls,  Jesus. You alone are Redeemer and Reconciler, our peace and Peacemaker. One day we will love perfectly as you love us, Jesus. May we in this day give concrete evidence of that sure and coming day. In your merciful and mighty name we pray. Amen.

Song: Come Ye Sinners [Hart]

Song: In Christ Alone [Getty]

ASSURANCE OF PARDON (Hebrews 10:19-23)

GIVING

READING OF GOD’S WORD (3 John)

PROCLAMATION OF GOD’S WORD  (3 John)

COMMUNION 

Song: Mystery/Nothing But the Blood [Hall/Lowry]

Song: Doxology [Ken] 

BENEDICTION

May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.  (Colossians 1:11-12 ESV)