Sunday, October 2
Reformation Season
Welcome to our Order of Service page and Reformation Season!
As we look back on the monumental period in church history known as the Reformation, it is helpful to define the key beliefs that continue to describe reformational churches today. As a Baptist church, Grace Baptist does not align with all the Reformed denominations in areas of baptism, church structure, and eschatology, but we do stand with them in the foundational doctrines that continue to unite all those Christ-followers who stand in the grand tradition of the Reformation.
This tradition is concisely represented in the five Solas of the Reformation. Sola is Latin for only, or alone, and is used to distinguish the biblical doctrines of Scripture, Grace, Faith, Christ, and Glory to God from the beliefs, definitions, and components added to them by the Medieval church. Simply put, the Solas scrape away the human compromises which the church had attached to these essential doctrines in order to present biblical truth as it was meant to be understood. We remember the Reformation Season, not as a memorial to Martin Luther or any other man, but as a celebration of God’s grace in bringing the glorious light of the Gospel back to the church. For this reason, a new latin motto was born during the Reformation era: Post Tenebras Lux —After Darkness Light.
On each Sunday in October, we are going to highlight and celebrate one of the Solas leading up to the final Sunday of the month, Reformation Sunday.
Hard copy booklets like “A Reformation Season Companion” are available on our resource wall in the Worship Center Lobby and at the Engage Center on Sunday Mornings.
Order of Service
WELCOME & CALL TO CORPORATE WORSHIP
Video: Sola Scriptura
A Mighty Fortress
Pastoral Prayer
ADORATION
O Worship the King
RESPONSIVE SCRIPTURE READING
Ps. 71:23, Ps. 34:22, Eph. 2:8-9, Rom. 5:1-2, Col. 1:18-20
At The Cross (Love Ran Red)
CONFESSION
Just As I Am (I Come Broken)
ASSURANCE OF PARDON & COMMITMENT
I Will Look Up
THANKSGIVING
Pastoral Prayer
DEDICATION
I Offer My Life
PROCLAMATION
The Law, Sin, and Mankind Pt. 2 | Pastor David Hegg
Romans 7:13-25
THE LORD’S SUPPER
DEVOTION
My Soul Will Wait (Psalm 62)
COMMISSION
Announcements & Benediction
Why do we observe the Lord’s Supper?
Every first Sunday of the month, the family of Grace Baptist Church takes time to celebrate the communal meal known as The Lord's Supper, sometimes referred to as The Lord’s Table or Communion.
On the night he was betrayed, Jesus was celebrating the traditional Passover meal with his disciples. But, as he administered the bread and cup, Jesus re-purposed their symbolism to focus not on the deliverance of Israel from slavery in Egypt but on the deliverance he, himself, would accomplish on the cross. He would deliver his people from the slavery of sin through his death.
As he handed out the bread, he said, "this is my body, which is given for you." What did he mean? Simply, that his entire incarnational mission was purposeful. Jesus, the Son of God, came to us as a man in order to be the perfect substitute for us.
And as he passed around the cup, he told his disciples that it represented the blood he would shed as the Lamb of God, sacrificed in our place and for our benefit.
And then Jesus commanded that his people – the church – should reenact this simple communal meal as a solemn time of remembrance, personal examination, and joyous celebration of his redemptive mission, which secured our salvation.
If you are a follower of the Lord Jesus, we invite you to partake of the bread and cup with us as fellow members of the church, the Body of Christ.
Ushers play an important role in distributing the elements for the Lord’s Supper as well as passing the plate for the Offering.