Sunday, December 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
Advent Reading
ADORATION
Angels From the Realms of Glory
Here I Am To Worship
RESPONSIVE SCRIPTURE READING
Scripture
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
Grace Greater Than Our Sin
God With Us
THANKSGIVING
Corporate Prayer
OFFERTORY
El Noi De La Mare (The Son of the Mother) - Tavi Jinariu
PROCLAMATION
The Grace of Christmas | Pastor Jared Burkholder
John 1:1-18
SONG OF COMMITMENT & HOPE
Advent Gloria
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.
Hard copy booklets like “The Advent Companion” are available on our resource wall in the Worship Center Lobby and at the Engage Center on Sunday Mornings.
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