NEHEMIAH
FEBRUARY 8, 2015
Welcome to Cityview Presbyterian Church
C TYVIEW
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To Our Guests: Visiting a church can be an intimidating experience. We are glad that you are here, and we hope to remove as much of that awkwardness as we can from your visit to Cityview. Our worship service usually lasts about 90 minutes. This worship guide will help you navigate the service. There are short paragraphs on the next page to explain each part of the service. The service is designed to be accessible to you, whether you’ve spent years in the church or you’ve never been to a church service in your life. During the service, we will try to help you understand how the message of Jesus can apply to your life today. If you are new to Cityview or just visiting, we would love to know that you were here. The Connection Cards, which can be found in this bulletin, are a place for you to let us know whatever information you might want us to know, and to request any information from us that you might need. You may put this in the offering when it is passed at the end of the service. Pastor Dan Adamson (dadamson@cityviewchicago.org) is always enthusiastic to meet you in person, as well.
For Children: Children of all ages are welcome in the worship service. Nursery is provided during the service for children 3 years of age and younger.
Community Life: After the Service Each week, we linger for fellowship with one another. Please join us for refreshments in the cafeteria. Community Groups Community Groups are the primary way to get to know people at Cityview. At a Community Group, you will be invited to deepen your spiritual involvement with others. You will find a weekly opportunity to study the scripture passage for the upcoming week’s sermon and pray together. When & Where Tuesday / 6:30 PM Dan Adamson dadamson@cityviewchicago.org 2154 West Superior St. Wednesday / 7:30 PM Joel Avila - joel.p.avila@gmail.com 2455 West Ohio, Unit 16W Thursday / 7:00 PM Malissa Mackey - malissa.mackey@cru.org 123 South Green St. Apt 807-B Visit cityviewchicago.org/news to see all upcoming events.
Children ages four through 5th grade are given the choice of attending Sunday school classes beginning during the opportunities and concerns portion of the service.
All songs used by permission CCLI License #11041992
If you have any questions about children’s ministry at Cityivew, please contact Children’s Ministry Coordinator Lynda Adamson (lyndabadamson@gmail.com).
Scripture reprinted from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission.
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The Liturgy Preparing in Stillness
We often come into worship tired, overwhelmed and distracted. If we are honest we are not prepared to worship God. Each week, we take a few moments to quiet our hearts to prepare to meet God in worship. Please take this time to read the reflections, look over the rest of the service or pray as we anticipate being called into worship.
Call to Worship
We need to be “called” to come and worship God because we default to thinking the world revolves around our needs and agendas- and also because we struggle to believe that God truly wants us to draw near to him. The call to worship focuses our attention on God and prepares us to meet him.
Confession of Sin
Because sin is so pervasive in both our individual and corporate lives, we are called to come before God with honesty and transparency, confessing our failures and brokenness and asking for both healing and forgiveness through Jesus Christ. We confess corporately to show our unity even in our brokenness.
Assurance of Grace
Christ has given the Church authority to declare forgiveness of sins in his name. Because of this, when the liturgist proclaims that your sins are forgiven, you can know that Christ agrees.
The Sermon
Some view the sermon as a way to get principles for “right” living. In reality, as we open the Scripture we corporately encounter Christ. Therefore, as you listen, pray to be open to the Spirit’s leading, exhortation, encouragement, and healing.
Communion
Communion, also called the Lord’s Supper or the Eucharist, is the family meal for Christians. We welcome all Christians - those who look to Christ alone for salvation, who are in good standing with his church, and who seek strength to live more faithfully to their Savior - to join in this sacrament.
Worship Through Giving
Because money is so powerfully tied to our hearts, this is a valuable expression of worship as we acknowledge that everything we have comes from God and belongs to him. If you are visiting with us, we are glad you are here- please do not feel obligated to give.
The Benediction
God always gets the last word in our encounter of worship. For Christians, it is always a word of blessing and sending to live our lives in the light of the reality of the Gospel of Christ.
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ORDER OF WORSHIP Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther King, Jr. What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom. - NT Wright He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. - Micah 6:8
God Calls Us Call to Worship* God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful. He is a faithful Lord, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands. His faithfulness reaches to the skies and continues throughout all generations on into eternity. We praise the faithfulness of our Lord Jesus Christ in this place, saying: Great is your faithfulness! We will exalt and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things. Great is your faithfulness to us, O Lord, our God.
Amazing Grace Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see! ‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear and grace, my fears relieved How precious did that grace appear, the hour I first believed! *please stand if able
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Prayer of Invocation God of all faithfulness, you have opened the gate of mercy for your people and are always ready to welcome those who turn to you. Look on us in your compassion, that we may gladly respond to your love and faithfully walk in your way, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
We have Come to Join in Worship
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Words by Ken Bible and George Atkins Music by William Moore © 1997 by Integrity's Hosanna! Music and Word Music.
We Have Come to Join in Worship
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God Cleanses Us Call to Confession — Matthew 11:28-29 Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”
Prayer of Confession Loving Lord Jesus Christ, who came to seek and to save the lost, who invites the weary and the overburdened to rest, and who heals the hurting: we confess that we have lost our way. Forgive our wayward and willful disobedience. Lead us back to you. Forgive us for every thought, word, or deed that has brought hurt to others, harmed ourselves, or dishonored your name. Heal the pain we have caused. Grace us with your Holy Spirit and lead us, once again, in the way that leads to life. Amen. Bifrost Arts Isaac Wardell and Joseph Pensak
Lord, I Believe
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Silent Confession Assurance of Grace* — Romans 5:8
God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners, Christ died for us. This is the good news! Thanks be to God! Brothers and sisters, you have heard God’s holy demands and have confessed your sins to him. Do you believe that Jesus Christ, by his perfect life, sacrificial death, and glorious resurrection has atoned for your sins and satisfied the wrath of God for you? We do.
Passing of the Peace — from John 13:34 Hear the teaching of Christ: “A new command I give you, that you love one another as I have loved you.” The peace of Christ be with you all.
Agnus Dei
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Hymn of Assurance
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I Know that My Redeemer Lives
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Words & Music: David Leonard and Leslie Jordan
Opportunities and Concerns Children may be dismissed for Sunday School
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God Speaks To Us New Testament Reading — 1 John 3:11-18 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 11
Gospel Reading — Luke 4:14-21 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. 17 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” 20 And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. 21 And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
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Sermon — Dealing with Injustice: Nehemiah Reverend Dan Adamson
Sermon Text — Nehemiah 5 Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. 2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” 4 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards. 5 Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.” 6 I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words. 7 I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them 8 and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say. 9 So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies? 10 Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest. 11 Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.” 12 Then they said, “We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say.” And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised. 13 I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said “Amen” and praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised. 14 Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor. 15 The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God. 16 I also persevered in the work on this wall, and we acquired no land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work. 17 Moreover, there were at my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us. 18 Now what was prepared at my expense for each day was one ox and six choice sheep and birds, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet for all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the service was too heavy on this people. 19 Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people. 1
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God Strengthens Us Confession of Faith — The Apostles’ Creed Christian, what do you believe? I believe in God, the Father Almighty, the Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from there He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.
Invitation to the Lord’s Table Prayer of Thanksgiving and Consecration The Lord be with you. And also with you.
Sanctus We lift them up to the Lord. Sanctus Sanctus Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. Lift up your hearts.
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Words of Institution We break bread in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and proclaim the mystery of the faith: Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again. Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us; Therefore, let us keep the feast.
Lead Lead Me Me to to the the Cross Cross
Distribution of the Bread and the Cup
words and music: Brooke Frasier
and music: Brooke Frasier Lead Me to thewords Cross
Communion Hymn
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Words & Music: Brooke Frasier
Prayers for Reflection Prayer for those searching for truth Lord Jesus, you claim to be the way, the truth, and the life. As I consider the reasons for doing so, grant that I might be undaunted by the cost of following you. If what you claim is true, please guide me, teach me, and open to me the reality of who you are. Give me an understanding of you that is coherent, convincing, and that leads to the life that you promise. Amen.
Prayer of belief Lord Jesus, I admit that I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before believed, but through you I am more loved and accepted than I ever dared hope. I thank you for paying my debt, bearing my punishment on the cross, and offering forgiveness and new life. Knowing that you have been raised from the dead, I turn from my sins and receive you as Savior and Lord. Amen.
Prayer of commitment Lord Jesus, you have called us to follow you in baptism and in a life of committed discipleship in your church. Grant that I may take the necessary steps to be one with your people, and live in the fullness of your Spirit. Amen.
Prayer for those struggling with sin Lord Jesus, grant that I may see in you the fulfillment of all my need, and may turn from every false satisfaction to feed on you, the true and living bread. Enable me to lay aside the sin that clings so closely, and faithfully follow you in life. Amen.
Communion Prayer
Almighty Father, whose Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, is the light of the world, may your people, illumined by your word and sacraments, shine with the radiance of his glory, that he may be known, worshipped, and obeyed to the ends of the earth, for he is alive and reigns, now and forever. Amen.
Pastoral Prayer The Lord’s Prayer Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Benediction & Sending — based on Philippians 4:7 May the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. And the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Amen. Let us go forth to serve the world as those who love our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Thanks be to God!
Postlude Each week people are available to pray with you immediately following the service, located near the communion table.
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Around Cityview POTLUCK TODAY / AFTER WORSHIP SERVICE Stay after the service for a congregational meeting and potluck lunch. We’ll share information about the final 2015 budget, plans for the new year, and results of the annual survey. Bring a dish and/or drink to share. Guests welcome, members strongly encouraged. ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 / 7PM / COVENANT - 2012 WEST DICKENS We will join with Covenant Presbyterian Church for an Ash Wednesday service to lead us into the Lenten season.
Service Opportunities with Breakthrough
Theological Education
PRIVATE KARAOKE EVENT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 / 7:00 PM / LINCOLN KARAOKE 5526 N. LINCOLN AVE. Forget about winter for a few hours and sing your heart out in Cityview’s private karaoke room! Please RSVP to Karen Lee (leekaren.one@gmail.com) by February 13. THE DOCTRINE OF GOD: HOW THE TRINITY CHANGES EVERYTHING FEBRUARY 22 - MARCH 8 / AFTER WORSHIP SERVICE This class will be an introduction to the doctrine of God. We will discuss the significance of the doctrine of the Trinity, and its importance to Christian belief and discipleship. We will ask questions such as “Why does it matter that God is Trinity?” and “Does it make sense to say that God is three-in-one?” In addition, we will discuss a number of other attributes and characteristics of God and how they are taught in Scripture. If you have any questions or desire further information, contact Craig Hefner. FRESH MARKET - REGULAR VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Breakthrough’s Fresh Market is a client-choice food pantry which invites residents of East Garfield Park to shop for groceries, free of charge, based on their family size. The market is run primarily by neighborhood volunteers, many of whom are shoppers themselves. The Fresh Market is looking for regular volunteers to set up the pantry, assist shoppers, and pack food. Available times to volunteer are: Tuesdays: 2:30-7:00 PM, Thursdays: 7:30-12:30 PM, Saturdays: 7:30- 12:30 PM, and Saturdays: 12-4:30 PM (this is the shift where volunteers are especially needed!) You can make this a weekly or monthly commitment and help alleviate poverty in East Garfield Park! MANNA MINISTRIES: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 / 7:00 PM / 402 N. ST. LOUIS AVE. Consider joining a group of volunteers to prepare and serve dinner to a group of approximately 40 homeless men in partnership with Breakthrough Urban Ministries. If you are interested in participating or have questions, contact Joel Avila at Joel.P.Avila@ gmail.com . Participation in Behind the Scenes tour prior to service is preferred, but not mandatory.
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SERVING THIS WEEK Sound Jared Elton Greeters Paul Leo & Danny Kim Snacks N/A - Potluck Nursery Ellen Kim Sunday School Rachel Hefner & Carolyn Sorock
SERVING NEXT WEEK Sound Danny Samudio Greeters George & Monet Ball Snacks Katie Jasinski Nursery Katie Jasinski Sunday School Matt Covalle
CONTACTS Dan Adamson, Senior Pastor dadamson@cityviewchicago.org Peter Schamp, Worship Director pschamp@gmail.com Lynda Adamson, Children’s Ministry Director lyndabadamson@gmail.com Carolyn Koonce, Administrative Coordinator carolyn.groenewold@gmail.com Craig Hefner, Theological Education Coordinator craig.hefner@my.wheaton.edu Bonnie Beach, Communications Coordinator bonnie.e.beach@gmail.com
CONGREGATIONAL GIVING* JAN 2015 Actual Monthly Giving
$ 11,448
Budgeted Monthly Giving
$ 12,255
Difference
$ -807
Actual YTD Giving
$ 11,448
Budgeted YTD Giving
$ 12,255
Difference YTD Fundraising Revenue:
$ -807 $ 2,400
*In addition to congregational giving, we receive fundraising support from other churches and individuals to help cover operating costs.