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WORSHIP AUGUST 5, 2012
10TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

THE GATHERING Baron Mullis
Leader: The Lord be with you.
People: And also with you.

THE PRELUDE Walter Huff, organist

* THE CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: I will sing of your steadfast love, O Lord, forever,
People: With my mouth I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations.
Leader: I declare that your steadfast love is established forever,
People: Your faithfulness is as firm as the heavens.
Leader: Let us worship the Lord our God.
- Psalm 89:1-2

* THE PROCESSIONAL HYMN 464 Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

THE CALL TO CONFESSION

THE PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Merciful God, our sin is before us. Your way for us is clear: we are to love you
with all our hearts, souls, minds and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves.
Who among us may claim such love? In this calling, we have fallen short. We
need reconciliation. And yet, we remember as well that our calling to live lives of
humanity and kindness does not fail, and so we ask once more that you would
strengthen us in discipleship, guide us, and give us the courage to live as you have
called us; we ask this in the name of Jesus, and for his sake. Amen.

A MOMENT OF SILENCE (for examination of conscience and personal prayers of confession)

THE ASSURANCE OF PARDON
Leader: Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound?
People: By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?
Leader: Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were
baptized into his death?
People: Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that,
just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we
too might walk in newness of life.
Leader: Believe the promise of the gospel:
People: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. - Romans 6:1-4

*THE CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE (Hymn 280)
The Lord has promised good to me, his word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be as long as life endures.

* THE PEACE OF CHRIST
(Children ages 3-8 are invited to leave after the Peace of Christ for special classes. Three through five-yearolds
in Room 011; K - 2nd grade in Room 001.

THE CONCERNS OF THE CHURCH
(Visitors and members are invited to sign the blue friendship register pad and pass it down the pew.)

THE ANTHEM Apostles’ Creed 17th century, arr. Schouten
Soloists - John Wingert, Dana Kling, Tami Giusto

THE SCRIPTURE LESSON Hebrews 13:20-21 (page 214 in the pew Bible, NT)

THE SERMON “This I Believe...”
Ellen Brown, Brian Johnson, Lloyd Prince

* THE HYMN 504 Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether (verses 1 and 3)

THE OFFERTORY Immortal, Invisible arr. Young

* THE DOXOLOGY AND PRAYER OF DEDICATION (Hymn 592)

THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER
Invitation
The Great Thanksgiving
Leader: The Lord be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts!
People: We lift them to the Lord.
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People: It is right to give thanks and praise.
Leader: It is truly right…
Therefore we praise you, joining our voices with the choirs of heaven
and with all the faithful of every time and place who forever sing to the
glory of your name:
Sanctus Holy, Holy, Holy (Chancel Choir) Ronald Nelson
Leader: You are holy, O God of majesty…
Great is the mystery of faith.
People: Christ has died,
Christ is risen,
Christ will come again.

The Lord’s Prayer

Communion of the People
(The round wafers on the plate are provided for our members and guests with gluten intolerance.)

Prayer after the Meal

* THE HYMN 441 I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord (verses 1 through 5)

* THE CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

* THE CHORAL RESPONSE Immortal, Invisible Eric Thiman