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God Graciously Renews Us in Christ

Confession of Sin

Silent Prayers of Confession

One of the greatest ways you and I can participate in Worship and in our Salvation is in Repentance.  Jesus gives us (in the Lord’s Prayer) the Daily expectation of prayers of Repentance & in praying for the strength to forgive others as we have been forgiven.  Let’s take a couple of moments to pray silently, to confess our sins, to repent & to be given an opportunity, perhaps even within our own church family, to show forgiveness to those who have sin against us.  Let’s pray…

(Be quiet for 45 seconds….)

Forgiveness of Sin Through Christ

Worship Leader: We thank you O God, for your patience that you have given us for so long, and for the grace that now makes us willing to be yours.  Unite us to you with inseparable bonds that nothing may ever draw us back from you, our Lord and our Savior.

Thanking God for what He has done

Pastoral Prayer of Thanksgiving

Colossians says, “Whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through the Son.”

(Let the men come forward who will be collecting the offering)

Lord, we thank you for bring us all together. These precious people who you have called from out of the world to be brought together to be joined in to 1 kingdom, into 1 family – Your kingdom, Your family. Let us remember like all families we will fight, we will at times say the wrong thing at the wrong time, but Lord I ask that, like a family, we will also be quick to recognize our faults, to ask for forgiveness of one another, to seek to repair broken relationships in our body. I thank you Lord first for your Son – the Workman of our Salvation & secondly for these people gathered here, the Sheep of your flock. I am honored to be counted among them & I thank your for them & for our Elders & Pastors who seek not their own glory, but to glorify you Lord. Amen.

Giving Our Tithes and Offerings

This Communion Meditation comes from the Didache, a Church letter from about 110 – 130 AD, and I chose it not only because the Early Church also celebrated weekly communion (as we have begun to do), but as a gentle reminder to us that Christianity does not begin or end with us, its more like an….Olympic relay race with a long line of Godly men & women that have come before us and by God’s Grace will continue long after we’ve gone.

God Feeds and Nourishes Us Through His Supper

(Congregation) BREAD - We thank you, our Father, for the life and knowledge which you made known to us through Jesus your Servant; to you be the glory forever. Even as this broken bread was once scattered over the hills (as grain), and was gathered together and became one (loaf), so let your Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth into Your kingdom; for to You is the glory and the power through Jesus Christ forever… (Worship leader) Christ reminds us in Luke that as we freely give out this broken bread he freely gave up his body to be broken for us, take it in remembrance of him.

(Congregation) WINE - We thank you, our Father, for the holy vine of David your servant, which you made known to us through Jesus your servant; to you be the glory forever…(Worship leader) Christ reminds us in Luke the cost of our forgiveness of sin is in His blood shed for us at Calvary, take it in remembrance of him.

God Blesses and Sends Us Out

All: We thank you, holy Father, for your holy name which you did cause to tabernacle (or dwell) in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality, which you made known to us through Jesus your servant; to you be the glory forever. For you, Master almighty, did create all things for Your name’s sake; you gave food and drink to men for enjoyment, that they might give thanks to you; but to us you also freely gave spiritual food and drink and life enteral through your Servant (Jesus). Before all things we thank you that You are mighty; to you be the glory forever. Remember, Lord, your Church, to deliver it from all evil and to make it perfect in your love, and gather it from the four winds, sanctified for your kingdom which you have prepared for it; for yours is the power and the glory forever. Let grace come, and let this world pass away. Hosanna to the Son of David! If anyone is holy, let him come; if anyone is no so, let him repent. Maranatha (Oh Lord come) Amen.