Order of Worship — December 22

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE
CALL TO WORSHIP
Psalm 102:18-28
PRAYER OF INVOCATION
WORSHIPING GOD IN SONG
How Firm A Foundation
Praise To The Lord
CORPORATE CONFESSION OF SIN
Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what our lips tremble to name, what our hearts can no longer bear, and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment. Set us free from a past that we cannot change; open to us a future in which we can be changed; and grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness and image, through Jesus Christ, the light of the world. Amen.
SILENT CONFESSION
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
Revelation 21:6-7 “And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.”
WORSHIPING GOD IN SONG
Psalm 31
CONFESSION OF FAITH
The Apostles’ Creed, Elder Ed Baker
RECEPTION OF NEW MEMBERS
The Williams family
WORSHIPING GOD IN THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
Lucy Avonlea Williams
WORSHIPING GOD IN OUR GIVING
What Wondrous Love Is This?
PASTORAL PRAYER
Elder Brian Riedel
WORSHIPING GOD IN THE PROCLAMATION OF HIS WORD
“The King’s Return” from 2 Samuel 19:8b-43 by Rev. John Downs
WORSHIPING GOD AROUND THE LORD’S TABLE IN THE SACRAMENT OF COMMUNION
SONG OF RESPONSE
The Church’s One Foundation
BENEDICTION
DOXOLOGY