ORDER OF WORSHIP Mission Sunday

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1 ORDER OF WORSHIP Mission Sunday *Congregation Stands (If you prefer, It is acceptable to remain seated.) Welcome to Knox Presbyterian Church. We invite you to sign and pass the Friendship Book located at the end of your pew. If you re a first-time visitor, our prayer is that you will experience the presence of the eternal, as we worship our God together. WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS PRELUDE CALL TO WORSHIP: My Faith Has Found A Resting Place James Southbridge Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are your ways, King of the ages. Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you! Dick Raymond Organ Dick Raymond *SONGS OF WORSHIP Worship Team JOYFUL, JOYFUL, WE ADORE THEE (Hymn #20) Joyful, joyful, we adore thee, God of glory, Lord of love; hearts unfold like flowers before thee, opening to the sun above. Melt the clouds of sin and sadness, drive the dark of doubt away; giver of immortal gladness, fill us with the light of day! (VERSE 2)

2 All thy works with joy surround thee, earth and heaven reflect thy rays, stars and angels sing around thee, center of unbroken praise. Field and forest, vale and mountain, flowery meadow, flashing sea, chanting bird and flowing fountain call us to rejoice in thee. (VERSE 3) Thou art giving and forgiving, ever blessing, ever blest, well-spring of the joy of living, ocean depth of happy rest! Thou our Father, Christ our Brother all who live in love are thine; teach us how to love each other, lift us to the joy divine. WONDERFUL MERCIFUL SAVIOR Wonderful merciful Savior Precious Redeemer and Friend Who would have thought that a Lamb Could rescue the souls of men Oh you rescue the souls of men You are the One that we praise You are the One we adore You give the healing and grace Our hearts always hunger for Oh our hearts always hunger for (VERSE 2) Counselor Comforter Keeper Spirit we long to embrace You offer hope when our hearts

3 Have hopelessly lost the way Oh we hopelessly lost the way (VERSE 3) Almighty infinite Father Faithfully loving your own Here in our weakness you find us Falling before your throne Oh we're falling before your throne CCLI Song No Word Music, LLC Dayspring Music, LLC (a div. of Word Music Group, Inc.) (a div. of Word Music Group, Inc.) Dawn Rodgers Eric Wyse For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use. All rights Reserved. CCLI License No Ryan Moore Call to Confession: Seeing that we have a great High Priest who has entered the inmost heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us therefore approach the throne of grace with fullest confidence, that we may receive mercy for our failures and grace to help in the hour of need. In the strength of this assurance, let us confess our sins to God. TIME OF PRAYER [Silent Prayer] Assurance of Pardon Hear the good news! Who is in a position to condemn? Only Christ, and Christ died for us, Christ rose for us, Christ reigns in power for us, Christ prays for us. Anyone who is in Christ

4 is a new creation. The old life has gone; a new life has begun. Know that you are forgiven, and be at peace. *SONG Thanks be to God Worship Team IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL (Hymn #519) When peace like a river attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll, whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul. (REFRAIN) It is well with my soul, it is well, it is well with my soul. (VERSE 3) My sin O, the bliss of this glorious thought, my sin not in part but the whole, is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more: Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul! (REPEAT REFRAIN) (VERSE 4) And, Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight, the clouds be rolled back as a scroll, the trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend: Even so it is well with my soul. (REPEAT REFRAIN) Offering of Ourselves & Our Gifts: Dick Raymond Out of the abundance of God s own life, we have received the abundance of God s creation, God s word, and God s love. Why, then, should we live as though we are threatened with scarcity? Let us return to God a portion of all that we have been given, with joyous and glad abandon. *Doxology

5 Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise him, all creatures here below Praise him above ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost *Prayer of Dedication Bringing our gifts forward and/or lighting a candle Offertory Prelude Organ James Hook PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE REV. DON MEEKHOF SCRIPTURE READING: Exodus 3:7-12 Nick Robertson 7 The LORD said, I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt. 11 But Moses said to God, Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? 12 And God said, I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain. SCRIPTURE READING: Matt Edminster 2 Thessalonians 1: With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your

6 every deed prompted by faith. 12 We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. MESSAGE Matt Edminster Disarmed & Dangerous *CLOSING SONG Worship Team HERE I AM TO WORSHIP Light of the world You stepped down into darkness Opened my eyes let me see Beauty that made This heart adore you Hope of a life spent with you So here I am to worship Here I am to bow down Here I am to say that you re my God And you re altogether lovely Altogether worthy Altogether wonderful to me (VERSE 2) King of all days Oh so highly exalted Glorious in heaven above Humbly you came To the earth you created All for love's sake became poor (REPEAT CHORUS) (BRIDGE) And I'll never know how much it cost To see my sin upon that cross

7 And I'll never know how much it cost To see my sin upon that cross (REPEAT CHORUS) CCLI Song No Thankyou Music (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) Tim Hughes For use solely in accordance with the SongSelect Advanced Terms of Agreement. All rights Reserved. CCLI License No * BENEDICTION Matt Edminster May the Christ who walks on wounded feet walk with you on the road. May the Christ who serves with wounded hands stretch out your hands to serve. May the Christ who loves with a wounded heart open your hearts to love. May you see the face of Christ in everyone you meet, And may everyone you meet see the face of Christ in you. Amen. *POSTLUDE Reprinted by permission from The Worship Sourcebook, 2004, Faith Alive Christian Resources. Come, Thou Almighty King Gerald Peterson Organ