Sunday July 13, 2025 Worship Service
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Gathering in God’s Name

Prelude — Sonata No. 1: Movement 2 — Charles Ore
As the prelude begins, you are invited to begin your personal preparation for worship.

Silent Meditation
“Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours; yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion looks out on the world, yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.”  — Teresa of Avila 

Call to Worship                                                                                                                          
Open our minds, O Lord, and reprioritize our thoughts, so that Christ is the center of our choices and inclinations.
       Open our hearts, O Lord, and realign our emotions, so that our love for Christ reigns over all other feelings.
Open our ears, O Lord, and reestablish our connection to you, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
       Let us worship God together!

Praise and Adoration

*Hymn #475 — Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing — NETTLETON
(*Please stand, if you are able)

Confession and Pardon

Call to Confession 

Prayer of Confession — from Psalm 51
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions.  Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.  For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.  Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.  Do not cast me from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me.

Silent Prayers of Confession

Kyrie Eleison — Lord, Have Mercy — Schubert

Assurance of Pardon

*Congregational Response (#581) — Glory Be to the Father — GLORIA PATRI (Greatorex)

Welcome                                     
During the Welcome, children are invited to come forward.

Time for Young Disciples

Announcements

Fellowship of Prayer

Joys and Concerns

Prayers of the People
The Lord’s 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.

Proclamation of God’s Word

Scripture Lesson — Luke 10: 25-37 — page 844 of the pew Bible                                                                      

Sermon — “Go and Do Likewise” — Dr. Zieman

Prayer

Our Response to God’s Word

Presentation of Tithes and Offerings

Offertory — The Greatest Gift Is Love — Mark Hayes

The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper

Invitation to the Lord’s Table

*Affirmation of Faith — from the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), 4.066   
What are sacraments?
Sacraments are visible, holy signs and seals. They were instituted by God so that by our use of them he might make us understand more clearly the promise of the gospel, and seal that promise. And this is God’s gospel promise:  to grant us forgiveness of sins and eternal life by grace because of Christ’s one sacrifice accomplished on the cross.

*Sanctus (#562) — Holy, Holy, Holy SANCTUS — (Schubert)

The Words of Institution

The Serving of the Elements
Please come forward as directed by an usher.  All baptized Christians are encouraged to partake – by taking a piece of bread and dipping it into the cup.  Gluten-free bread is at the station closer to the pulpit. If you are unable to come forward, an elder will serve you in the pew.

Communion Anthem — For the Bread Which You Have Broken — arr. Howard Helvey                                                            

*Prayer of Thanksgiving
Loving God, we thank you that you have fed us in this sacrament, united us with Christ, and given us a foretaste of the heavenly banquet in your eternal kingdom.  Send us out in the power of your Spirit to live and work to your praise and glory for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Lord.  Amen.

*Hymn #515 — I Come with Joy — DOVE OF PEACE

Charge and Benediction

*Choral Response — Amen — Peter Lutkin

Postlude — Sonata No. 1: Movement 1 — Charles Ore