Sunday, April 2
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
Across the Lands
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
His Mercy Is More
ADORATION
All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name
THANKSGIVING
Rejoice
PASTORAL PRAYER
OFFERTORY
Christ Our Hope in Life and Death
PROCLAMATION
The Obedience of Faith and Acceptance | Pastor David Hegg
Romans 14:1-12
COMMISSION
Announcements, Benediction & Doxology
What is “Passion Season”?
Passion Season at Grace Baptist Church encompasses three weeks leading up to Resurrection Sunday. Unlike other holidays, Resurrection Sunday (or Easter Sunday and Passover that precedes it) changes every year due to the lunar cycle on which the Jewish calendar is based. So to have an extended "season" focusing on what Jesus Christ accomplished on Calvary in a three-week block is helpful when the date changes every year.
The word passion is from the Latin pati, which means "to endure" or "to suffer." Scripture often highlights the suffering of Christ. Indeed, the crucifixion of Christ is the apex of human history and is at the very heart of the gospel: "I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified" (1 Corinthians 2:2). It is through the passion of Christ that we are made right with God.
Passion can be associated with intense emotion and even love in modern usage. But Jesus did not endure suffering because of a strong emotion that flared up for a while and then subsided. Today, people can have "fits of passion" and do rash things they regret later, but Christ's passion is different. Jesus came to earth to lay down His life for us, and He never wavered from it (Matthew 16:21–23 and 21:24). Jesus is described in Revelation 13:8 as the Lamb who has been slain for the sins of all those who have been predestined for salvation.
