Sunday Liturgy & Announcements for August 30
We post the liturgy from the week so it will be accessible to you throughout the week. We encourage you to work through the catechism or be reminded about what Scripture was read in the service on Lords Day.
Call To Worship
LEADER
Psalm 66:1 Shout for joy to God, all the earth;
2 sing the glory of his name;
give to him glorious praise!
3 Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!
So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.
4 All the earth worships you
and sings praises to you;
they sing praises to your name.”
PEOPLE
How awesome are your deeds!
So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.
All the earth worships you
and sings praises to you;
they sing praises to your name.
Catechism
LEADER
What is baptism?
PEOPLE
Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testiment instituted by Jesus Christ, to be unto the party baptized, a sign of his fellowship with him, in his death, burial, and resrrection; of his being ingrafted into him; of remission of sins; and of his giving up himself unto God through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life.
LEADER
To who is baptism to be administered?
PEOPLE
Baptism is to be administered to all those who actually profess repentance towards God, faith in, and obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to none other.
LEADER
Are the infants of such as are professing believers to be baptized?
PEOPLE
The infants of such as are professing believers are not to be baptized, because there is neither command, or example in the holy Scriptures, or certain consequesnce from them to baptize such.
Confession
LEADER
Acts 3:19 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out.
LEADER
THOU MAKER AND SUSTAINER OF ALL THINGS,
Day and night are thine,
heaven and earth declare thy glory;
But we, as creatures of thy power and bounty,
have sinned against thee by resisting the dictates of conscience,
the demands of thy law,
the calls of thy gospel;
yet we live under the dispensation of a given hope.
Deliver us from worldly dispositions,
for we are born from above and bound for glory.
May we view and long after holiness
as the beauty and dignity of the soul.
Let us never slumber, never lose our assurance,
never fail to wear armour when passing through enemy land.
Fit us for every scene and circumstance;
Stay our minds upon thee and turn our trials to blessings,
that they may draw out our gratitude and praise
as we see their design and effects.
Render our obedience to thy will holy, natural, and delightful.
Rectify all our principles by clear, consistent,
and influential views of divine truth.
Let us never undervalue or neglect any part of thy revealed will.
May we duly regard the doctrine and practice of the gospel,
prizing its commands as well as its promises.
Sanctify us in every relation, office, transaction, and condition of life,
that if we prosper we may not be unduly exalted,
if we suffer we may not be over-sorrowful.
Balance our minds in all varying circumstances
and help us to cultivate a disposition that renders every duty
a spiritual privilege.
Thus may we, your church, be content,
and be a glory to thee
and an example to others. Amen.
Assurance
LEADER
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus
PEOPLE
Thanks be to God who, through Jesus, pardons all of our guilt and forgives all of our sin. Amen.
"I am the vine; you are the branches.
Whoever abides in me and I in him,
he it is that bears much fruit,
for apart from me you can do nothing." John 15:5 ESV