Published on
May 14, 2020
Video length
81 mins
2020 Symposium on Worship | Service

Full service YouTube playlist. 

GATHERING

Prelude

Opening Song: “Welcome into this Place” (Orlando Juarez)

Welcome and Call to Worship

Blessing

PRAISE

Words of Praise

Songs of Praise: “The Church’s One Foundation”

“How Firm a Foundation”

CONFESSION AND ASSURANCE

Sung Call to Confession: “Withholding Nothing” (William McDowell)

Prayer of Confession

Assurance of Pardon

WORD

Prayer for Illumination

Psalm 118: “The Lord’s Become Our Salvation” (Wendell Kimbrough and Greg Scheer)

Scripture: 1 Peter 2:4–12

Sermon

Prayer of Application

RESPONDING TO THE WORD

Song of Response: “Your Labor Is Not in Vain” (Wendell Kimbrough)

Prayers of the People

Closing Song: “Joy” (VaSawn Mitchell)

Charge and Blessing

Announcements

Postlude

We are grateful for the planning and leading of this service by Wendell Kimbrough, David Lerner, Nikki Lerner, Northwestern Drama Ministries Ensemble, Greg Scheer, Kathleen Turner, and Forrest Wakeman; Karen Campbell, preaching

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