MORE PEOPLE MORE LIKE CHRIST
9:00am/10:30am Services
January 12, 2025
SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY
Sunday, January 12, 2025 9:00am & 10:30am
PLEASE SILENCE OR PLACE YOUR CELL PHONE ON VIBRATE.
GATHERING
PRELUDE
WORDS OF WELCOME
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: If you confess with your mouth, People: “Jesus is Lord,” Leader: And believe in your heart, People: That God raised Him from the dead, Leader: You will be saved. For it is with your heart People: That you believe and are justified, Leader: And it is with your mouth, People: That you confess and are saved. Leader: Let us worship Christ as Lord and Savior, and turn to Him in prayer.
*PRAYER OF INVOCATION
*HYMN
O for a Heart to Praise My God
*AFFIRMATION
OF FAITH (Apostles’ Creed)
I believe in God the Father Almighty, 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 sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence 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.
*GLORY BE TO THE FATHER
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against You in thought, word, and deed. We have not loved You with our whole heart and mind and strength; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. In Your mercy forgive what we have been, help us amend what we are, and direct what we shall be, so that we may delight in Your will and walk in Your ways, to the glory of Your holy name. Amen.
ASSURANCE
OF PARDON (2 Corinthians 3:18)
Leader: And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
All: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Thanks be to God.
ANTHEM
The Fruit of the Spirit Chancel Choir
He that abideth in Me, and I in Him; the same bringeth forth much fruit. Love, joy, peace, patience, tenderness, goodness, faith, meekness, and self-control.
PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION
Spirit of God, speak once again through the Words of Scripture that our listening ears may hear Your voice. Help us to place Your Word in our minds, treasure it in our hearts, choose it with our wills, and live it through our bodies. In Christ’s name we pray. Amen.
SCRIPTURE Galatians 5:13-26
Leader: This is the word of the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God!
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
THE LORD’S PRAYER
Page 1662 Pew Bible
CARING
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 forever. Amen.
*HYMN Spirit of God, Descend upon My Heart
OFFERTORY OFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE
*DOXOLOGY OLD HUNDREDTH
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
“Like Christ in Heart” Rev. Jim Noble SCRIPTURE Ephesians 4:17-32 Page 1667 Pew Bible
SERMON
*HYMN I’ve Got Peace Like a River
GOING
*BENEDICTION & RESPONSE Now unto Him
*POSTLUDE
