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Presbyterian Church
WE GATHER IN GOD’S PRESENCE
Prelude Debbi Clewell, Organist
Welcome and Announcements
Call to Worship
Leader: O Lord, before Your trials of suffering, You prayed that all Your
disciples may be one in Spirit.
People: Grant that we may be bound together in love for one another …
Leader: and in faithful obedience to You …
All: that the world may see and believe!
*Processional Hymn #492 “Baptized in Water”
WE CONFESS OUR SINS
Invitation to Silent Confession
A Prayer of Confession (by Oswald Chambers)
We confess that we run ahead of God in a thousand and one activities. We
confess that we become so burdened with people and problems that we fail to
worship God and fail to intercede. When a burden and its resulting pressure come
upon us while we are not in an attitude of worship, it will only produce
hardness toward God and despair in our own souls. A heartless Christian must be
a terrible grief to the Lord. And so we pray for our lives to be in a proper
place to worship and intercede in accord with the Holy Spirit.
Preparation for the Assurance (found on the front inside cover of hymnal)
The Assurance and Promise of Reconciliation
Leader: Lord, by Your grace and mercy in Jesus Christ, we turn away from sin.
People: Lord, by Your grace and mercy in Jesus Christ, we turn toward You.
All: Lord, by Your grace and mercy in Jesus Christ, we turn toward one another.
*Gloria Patri (page 579)
WE RESPOND TO THE GOOD NEWS
Anthem
The Sacrament of Baptism Blaine Evan Johnson
Invitation to Faithful Stewardship
Offertory
Minute for Mission: Men’s Retreat Dave Loth
*The Doxology
*A Prayer of Dedication
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
The Old Testament Reading Genesis 9:8-17 (p. 7 in OT)
*Preparatory Hymn #394 “There Is a Balm in Gilead”
The New Testament Reading 1 Peter 3:18-22 (p. 234 in NT)
The Sharing of God’s Word “The Ark-Shaped Cross” Pastor Rich Gelson
This Week’s Faith Sharing Question:
What are three ways you personally experience salvation in Christ?
Pastoral Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
WE HONOR GOD’S WORD
*Hymn of Commitment #466 “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing”
*The Benediction
Leader: Journey on in love, ministering to all those around you.
People: We are ministers of God, ambassadors of Christ, and pilgrims
of the Word.
Leader: Journey on
in peace, trusting that you are created by God, redeemed by Christ and sustained
by the Spirit.
People: We go in peace, confident of God’s love for us in Jesus Christ, and
eager to always experience new life through God’s Word and through one another.
Leader: Journey on in hope, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit.
ALL: Glory be to God, Amen.
*Congregational Response (found in back cover of hymnal)
Postlude
*All who are able, please stand
