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Gather: “Come to Me”
Text and Music: Wendell Kimbrough © 2017 Wendell Kimbrough
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
God’s Greeting
Call to Confession: Isaiah 30:15, 18
Prayer of Confession: Psalm 51:1-17 with “Create in Me”
Text and Music: Psalm 51:10-12, Anonymous, P.D.
Assurance: “All I Have Is Christ”
Text and Music: Jordan Kauflin © 2008 Sovereign Grace Praise
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Passing the Peace
Prayer for Illumination: “Speak to Us”
Text and Music: Wendell Kimbrough and Rachel Wilhelm © 2018 Rachel Wilhelm Music; Wendell Kimbrough
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Scripture: Ezekiel 18
Sermon
Prayers of the People with “Kyrie”
Text: Rachel Wilhelm and Kate Bluett © 2020 Rachel Wilhelm and Kate Bluett
Music: Rachel Wilhelm © 2020 Rachel Wilhelm
Used by permission.
Song: “Come Light Our Hearts”
Text and Music: Sandra McCracken © 2014 Drink Your Tea, admin. Music Services
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Benediction
Send: “Let Us Be Known / Que nos conozcan”
Text and Music: Matt Armstrong, Micah Massey, Nate Moore, and Ryan Flanigan © 2015 Wordspring Music, a division of Word Music Group, Inc.; Spanish translation Carlos Lemagne, 2023
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
The last few minutes of corporate worship are critical because they frame the entire purpose of worship and its connection to our lives in the world.
Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity engaged topics related to wealth and poverty in their preaching, public prayers, offerings, celebrations of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and the shaping of buildings and spaces for Christian worship.
How did early Christians understand their illness and pain in their Greco-Roman context?
The last few minutes of corporate worship are critical because they frame the entire purpose of worship and its connection to our lives in the world.
Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity engaged topics related to wealth and poverty in their preaching, public prayers, offerings, celebrations of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and the shaping of buildings and spaces for Christian worship.
How did early Christians understand their illness and pain in their Greco-Roman context?
Pastors of three Hispanic churches will share what they learned from experiences implementing congregational projects related to the development of new understandings and practices of worship and preaching.
