Order of Worship 5/24/20

WELCOME TO WORSHIP Sunday | May 24, 2020 | 11 a.m.

CALL TO WORSHIP HYMN NO. 246

Bill Gabbard The Church’s One Foundation (verse 1 only; see hymn insert)

WELCOME & INVOCATION

Dr. David Hull

CHILDREN’S SERMON ORGAN REFLECTION

AURELIA

Rev. Heather Webb Fantasy on “Praise the Lord, Ye Heavens Adore Him” Verleen Baerg, organ

A CORONAVIRUS PRAYER

Thallander

Dr. Joshua Scott

O Lord, our heavenly Father, You have gathered us together around the Word of Your Son in the church that He instituted. Have mercy on every Christian congregation stressed by illness and precaution.

In chaos and change, give us the peace which this world cannot give.

Preserve us from sickness and fear.

Refresh our generosity and love for one another.

While caution and circumstance divide us from each other, help us find consolation in the communion of saints, in which we are never divided from Christ, our Head, nor from His body, the Church.

O most loving Father, You want us to give thanks for all things, to fear nothing except losing You, and to lay all our cares on You, knowing that You care for us.

Strengthen us in our faith in You. Grant that the fears and anxieties of this mortal life may not separate us from Your love shown to us in Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray.

Amen.

SCRIPTURE

SERMON HYMN NO. 14

John 17:1–11

Red States, Blue States and Christian Unity Eternal Father, Strong to Save (verse 1 only; see hymn insert)

BENEDICTION

Quick References:

Dr. Dock Hollingsworth

(See Scripture insert)

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John 17:1–11 17 After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over all people,[a] to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. 5 So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.

6 “I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world.

They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; 8 for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 9 I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11 And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.