Sunday, September 4
Welcome to our Order of Service page! Each week, a team of pastors and staff get together to collaborate on the liturgy, or order of service, for Sunday. Every element is prayerfully and carefully crafted so that the Gospel, God’s redemptive story to save a people for Himself in and through His Son Jesus Christ, would be clear and compelling. We hope you’ll enjoy following along with us as we present and rehearse the Gospel again this morning.
Order of Service
WELCOME & CALL TO CORPORATE WORSHIP
Galatians 3:28
ADORATION
Open the Eyes of My Heart
CONFESSION
Pastoral Prayer
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
His Mercy is More
PETITION & INTERCESSION
My Soul Will Wait (Psalm 62)
THANKSGIVING
Pastoral Prayer
OFFERTORY
El Amor de Cristo (My Redeemer’s Love)
PROCLAMATION
Engage in Discipleship | Pastor Aaron Miller
I Thessalonians 1:1-10
DEVOTION
All I Have is Christ
COMMUNION
COMMISSION
Announcements & Benediction
Why a bilingual service?
A bilingual service is one where two languages are spoken and sung. Here at Grace Baptist, we have a thriving Spanish Ministry representing 15 Spanish-speaking countries, which meets in the Conference Center on Sundays. So on this “All Family Sunday” (only one service) with that ministry present, we have the opportunity to join our voices with our Spanish-speaking brothers and sisters in praising God.
We do this not only to be inclusive of our Spanish-speaking congregation, to love and serve them, but also to rehearse for Heaven. We're not sure precisely what Heaven will look or sound like, but we do have this picture from the Apostle John in the Book of Revelation:
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!" (Rev. 7:9–10 ESV)
The point of this passage isn't to highlight diversity for diversity's sake but to illustrate that God has united a people who look and sound differently from one another by His Son's work and for His Son's worship. So then, a bilingual church service is a wonderful foretaste of what Heaven will be like and a good reminder that God is engaging and saving people in every nation and tribe through the gospel of Jesus Christ in their language. A bilingual service can help us value the words of the Apostle Paul when he said, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Gal. 3:28) He alone is the object of our focus and the theme of our fellowship.
"Hallelujah! All we have is Christ!"