Be What You Are
Call to Worship
1 Praise the Lord!
Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise in the assembly of the godly!
2 Let Israel be glad in his Maker;
let the children of Zion rejoice in their King!
3 Let them praise his name with dancing,
making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!
4 For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;
he adorns the humble with salvation.
Prayer of Invocation
“How excellent Lord is your lovingkindness. You have called your people out of darkness and into your marvelous light. By your Spirit work in us this day that we may be renewed and restored. Fill us with your presence that you may be glorified through our lives. May our worship be acceptable in your sight, through the work of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom belongs glory and honor. Amen.”
Song of Praise
10,000 Reasons ∙ Lyrics & Video
Confession of Faith
Q. 33: What is justification?
A. Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardons all our sins, and accepts us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.
Q. 35: What is sanctification?
A. Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.
Westminster Shorter Catechism Questions 33 & 35
Song of Worship
More Love to Thee ∙ Lyrics & Video
Prayer of Intercession
Take time individually to confess your sins before the Lord. Then as a family/individually pray for the church, for our leaders, for the world, for the abating of the virus, and other needs you know of. You can always look at the prayer requests in the weekly email.
Offering to the Lord
One of the ways believers worship when physically gathered is through giving. Currently we can’t do that. Many do, however, give online. If you would like to, you can do so here. Or you may mail a check to our mailing address. (Note: if you are out of work and find yourself in need - please contact our deacons.)
As a song during this time: What Wondrous Love is This ∙ Video/Audio & Lyrics
Scripture Reading
17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Message
“Be What You Are”
Song of Response
As we’ve learned Christ - we learn to rest in who he is and that is part of how we are transformed into his image.
Take My Life and Let It Be ∙ Lyrics & Video
Scriptural Benediction
20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.