Resurrection Sunday, March 31
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
CALL TO CORPORATE WORSHIP
Hope is Alive
WELCOME & SCRIPTURE READING
Pastor of Equipping: Aaron Miller
John 20:1-9
ADORATION
Christ the Lord is Risen Today
RESPONSIVE SCRIPTURE READING
John 3:16; Rom. 6:9-10; Rom. 10:9; 1 Pet. 1:3
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
I Know that My Redeemer Lives
THANKSGIVING & PRAISE
It Was Finished Upon That Cross (with “And Can it Be?”)
PRAYER FOR THE OFFERING
Pastor of Adult & Family Ministries: Alan Berthiuame
OFFERTORY
Hallelujah, What a Savior
PROCLAMATION
The Logic of Belief | 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Pastor of Equipping: Aaron Miller
SONG OF RESPONSE
Crown Him with Many Crowns
COMMISSION & BENEDICTION
Executive Pastor: Joe Keller
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.
