Evening Order of Worship — August 3

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE
CALL TO WORSHIP
Psalm 105:1-4, 39-42 (responsive)
PRAYER OF INVOCATION
WORSHIPING GOD IN SONG
Redeemed, Restored, Forgiven
Come Thou Fount
CORPORATE CONFESSION OF SIN
O Lord, my every sense, member, faculty, affection, is a snare to me. I can scarce open my eyes but I envy those above me, or despise those below. I covet the honor and riches of the mighty, and am proud and unmerciful to the rags of others. If I behold beauty it is a bait to lust, or see deformity, it stirs up loathing and disdain; How soon do slanders, vain jests, and wanton speeches creep into my heart! Am I comely? What fuel for pride! Am I deformed? What an occasion for repining! Am I gifted? How I lust after applause! Am I unlearned? How I despise what I have not! Am I in authority? How prone to abuse my trust, make will my law, exclude others' enjoyments, serve my own interests and policy! Am I inferior? How much I grudge others' preeminence! Am I rich? How exalted I become! You know that all these are snares by my corruptions, and that my greatest snare is myself. I bewail that my apprehensions are dull, my thoughts mean, my affections stupid, my expressions low, my life unbeseeming; Yet what can You expect of dust but insincerity, of corruption but defilement? Keep me ever mindful of my natural state, but let me not forget my heavenly title, or the grace that can deal with
every sin. Amen.
SILENT CONFESSION
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
Romans 5:20-21 “Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace
abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.“
WORSHIPING GOD IN SONG
Psalm 25:1-13
CONFESSION OF FAITH
The Apostles’ Creed
CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER
WORSHIPING GOD IN THE PROCLAMATION OF HIS WORD
"Freedom and Framework" Exodus 19:1-6 by Rev. John Downs
SONG OF RESPONSE
Rock of Ages
BENEDICTION
DOXOLOGY