Opening Praise Music - Robert Payne
This Is Amazing Grace
Verse 1
Who breaks the power of sin and darkness
Whose love is mighty and so much stronger
The King of Glory the King above all kings
Verse 2
Who shakes the whole earth with holy thunder
And leaves us breathless in awe and wonder
The King of Glory the King above all kings
Chorus
(Yeah) (Oh) This is amazing grace
This is unfailing love
That You would take my place
That You would bear my cross
You laid down Your life
That I would be set free
Oh Jesus I sing for all that You've done for me
Verse 3
Who brings our chaos back into order
Who makes the orphan a son and daughter
The King of Glory the King of Glory
Verse 4
Who rules the nations with truth and justice
Shines like the sun in all of its brilliance
The King of Glory the King above all kings
Bridge
Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
Worthy is the King who conquered the grave
Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
Worthy is the King who conquered the grave
Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
Worthy is the King who conquered the grave
Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
Worthy worthy worthy
Jeremy Riddle, Josh Farro, Phil Wickham
CCLI Song #6333821
© 2012 Phil Wickham Music; Seems Like Music; Sing My Songs; Bethel Music Publishing; WC Music Corp.
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Come Thou Fount
Come Thou Fount Come Thou King
Verse 1
Come Thou Fount of ev'ry blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount I'm fixed upon it
Mount of Thy redeeming love
Verse 2
I was lost in utter darkness
'Til You came and rescued me
I was bound by all my sin when
Your love came and set me free
Now my soul can sing a new song
Now my heart has found a home
Now Your grace is always with me
And I'll never be alone
Chorus
Come Thou Fount come Thou King
Come Thou precious Prince of Peace
Hear Your bride to You we sing
Come Thou Fount of our blessing
Come Thou Fount come Thou King
Come Thou precious Prince of Peace
Hear Your bride to You we sing
Come Thou Fount of our blessing
Verse 3
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be
Let Thy goodness like a fetter
Bind my wand'ring heart to Thee
Prone to wander Lord I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart Lord take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above
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CCLI Song # 4775010
John Wyeth | Robert Robinson | Thomas Miller
© 2005 Gateway Create Publishing
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Holy Spirit
Verse 1
There's nothing worth more that will ever come close
No thing can compare You're our living hope
Your Presence
Verse 2
I've tasted and seen of the sweetest of loves
Where my heart becomes free and my shame is undone
In Your Presence Lord
Chorus
Holy Spirit You are welcome here
Come flood this place and fill the atmosphere
Your glory God is what our hearts long for
To be overcome by Your Presence Lord
Interlude
Your Presence Lord
Interlude
Your Presence Lord
Your Presence
Oh God how we love Your Presence Lord
Bridge
Let us become more aware of Your Presence
Let us experience the glory of Your goodness (Lord)
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CCLI Song # 6087919
Bryan Torwalt | Katie Torwalt
© 2011 Capitol CMG Genesis; Jesus Culture Music
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Question w/prayer: How have YOU practiced your love of the Lord this week? -Molly
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Scripture Reading /application intro: - led by Kelly
*Luke 23 (The Voice)
44 At this point, it was about noon, and a darkness fell over the whole region. The darkness persisted until about three in the afternoon, 45 and at some point during this darkness, the curtain in the temple was torn in two.
Jesus (shouting out loudly): 46 Father, I entrust My spirit into Your hands!
And with those words, He exhaled—and breathed no more.
47 The Centurion—one of the soldiers who performed the execution—saw all this, and he praised God.
Centurion: No doubt, this man must have been innocent.
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Explanation: The tearing of this heavy curtain in the temple is highly symbolic. Because this curtain separated the holiest place in the temple from the rest of the temple, some see in this act a symbol of God opening the way for unholy humans to enter into His holy presence: Jesus’ death brought forgiveness and opened the way for all to come to God. Others see in the curtain being torn the opposite meaning: God’s presence can no longer be confined to any single geographical place. The suffering and death of Jesus ended one age of human history, and now a new era has begun. Now God is on the move, at large, invading the whole world. Or perhaps this graphic image means both.
The overturning of the old-covenant infrastructure prepares for a new era. The torn curtain reveals that all believers - both clergy and laity - have fresh, unparalleled access to God.
We glimpse this wonderful reality in the apostle’s explanation of Jesus’s ominous words against the Jerusalem temple: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (John 2:19). The religious leaders pushed back, for it took 46 years to build Herod’s temple (John 2:20). But John comments, “He was speaking about the temple of his body” (John 2:21). Jesus himself is the new temple—the new Most Holy Place—with no curtain barring anyone from intimacy with him.
The living God, through His Spirit, now indwells not in a physical structure but in the lives of ALL HIS SAINTS.
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Responsive reading & Lord's Prayer - led by Micah
Leader: The temple curtain was woven to be as thick as a man's hand… 4 inches or more!
Congregation: Lord, you destroyed every barrier and now invite us face to face into your presence.
Leader: The Sun gave up shining for three long, frightful hours.
Congregation: The Heavens declare the glory of the Lord! Without your presence holding a spot, darkness rushes in and removes all light!
Leader: The Earth quaked and rocks split open as the Son of Man breathed his last.
Congregation: Lord, all Creation speaks loudly to proclaim your glory!
Leader: And the tombs opened up and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised!
Congregation: Lord, you have given us a foretaste of what will come at the end of time, the final resurrection, when all your saints will awaken!
ALL: Look! Everyone can see it!
God’s glory is on tour in the skies,
God-craft on exhibit across the horizon.
Madame Day holds classes every morning,
Professor Night lectures each evening.
The revelation of God is whole
and pulls our lives together.
The signposts of God are clear
and point out the right road.
The life-maps of God are right,
showing the way to joy.
The directions of God are plain
and easy on the eyes.
*Scripture taken from Matthew & 27 Psalm 19
The Lords Prayer
Our Father who art in Heaven hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen
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Prayer for our continuing God-Mission/ Missio Dei - led Katie
Testimony - led by Robert Payne
Communion/music - led by Rachel
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Music during Communion
Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)
Verse 1
Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
Was blind but now I see
Verse 2
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed
Chorus
My chains are gone I've been set free
My God my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy rains
Unending love amazing grace
Verse 3
The Lord has promised good to me
His word my hope secures
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures
Verse 4
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow
The sun forbear to shine
But God who called me here below
Will be forever mine
Will be forever mine
You are forever mine
Chris Tomlin, John Newton, Louie Giglio
CCLI Song #4768151
© 2006 Rising Springs Music; Vamos Publishing; worshiptogether.com songs
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