Order of Worship
Welcome and Announcements
Meditation Passage
2 Chronicles 6:14
O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart.
* Apostolic Greeting
Reserved for Ministers
* God Calls His People to Worship
Psalm 93
The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved. Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting. The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring. Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty! Your decrees are very trustworthy; holiness befits your house, O LORD, forevermore.
* Invocation
God Commands His People:
Exodus 20:16
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
We Confess Our Faith
The Nicene Creed
Confession of Sin
(Silent confession followed by corporate confession)
Most merciful Heavenly Father, the source and promoter of all truth, we confess that we have not loved, preserved, and promoted the truth as you call us to do. We have harbored false thoughts about you and our neighbor in our hearts. We have spoken falsehoods with our mouths. We have not stood ready to receive a good report about our neighbor, and have all too often been willing to receive an evil report about them. We have hidden the truth when speaking it would result in our own loss. Be merciful to us for the sake of Christ Jesus your son, and forgive us for all of the ways in which we have borne false witness. Teach us to love, preserve, and promote the truth so that you may gain great glory in our lives. Amen.
Assurance of Pardon
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
* We Praise God in Song
Doxology (#567)
God Speaks Through His Word - Acts 2:37-41
Sermon: What Shall We Do?
Speaker: Elder James Schwacofer
* Hymn of Response:
(517) I Know Whom I Have Believed
(TP, Trinity Psalter Hymnal)
Congregational Prayer (Followed by the Lord's Prayer)
Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
Amen.
Closing Doxology
Deuteronomy 32:3-4
For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God! “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.”