Sunday, October 16
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 Fide
SCRIPTURE READING
Isaiah 43:10-11
ADORATION
No Other Savior
CONFESSION
Pastoral Prayer
ASSURANCE OF PARDON & COMMITMENT
By Faith
RESPONSIVE SCRIPTURE READING
Ephesians 2:8-9
Yet Not I, But Through Christ in Me
Great is Thy Faithfulness
THANKSGIVING
Pastoral Prayer
TESTIMONY & OFFERTORY
Jared Burkholder & Wiley Kennedy
PROCLAMATION
Not Enemies, But Beloved Children | Pastor David Hegg
Romans 8:12-17
BAPTISMS
COMMISSION
Announcements & Benediction
Why do we baptize believers?
We baptize followers of Jesus because He commanded his followers to be baptized, by his authority, and in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:18-20)
The water is not divine nor spiritually advantageous to the believer, rather baptism is a demonstration of obedience, and a dramatization of salvation. For the witnessing church family, it’s a reminder of the power of the gospel that saved the believer into the life of Christ. (1 Peter 3:21)
The Grace Family observes and receives the one being baptized into the fellowship, recognizing that the declaration of salvation through baptism corresponds to membership into our church family. (1 Corinthians 12:13)
