True Community: Use Your Gift to Serve One Another (Part 1)

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Opening Psalm (Psalm 96:1-10)

Oh sing to the Lord a new song;

sing to the Lord, all the earth!

Sing to the Lord, bless his name;

tell of his salvation from day to day.

Declare his glory among the nations,

his marvelous works among all the peoples!

For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;

he is to be feared above all gods.

For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols,

but the Lord made the heavens.

Splendor and majesty are before him;

strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,

ascribe to the Lord glory and strength!

Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;

bring an offering, and come into his courts!

Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness;

tremble before him, all the earth!

Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!

Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved;

he will judge the peoples with equity.”

Song of Adoration (Psalm 96:1-10)

Prayer of Adoration

At this point you can pause to offer your own prayer of adoration and praise to God. To help prompt you to pray a prayer of praise ask yourself one of the following questions:

• What Scriptural passage about who God is can I turn into a prayer of praise? (e.g. 1 Chronicles 16:28-34)

• What character or attribute of God can I focus on and give Him praise for? (e.g. His Triunity, Self-Existence, Goodness, Omniscience, etc.)

Call to Confession (John 13:34-35, 15:12-13; 1 Peter 1:22, 4:8)

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Reflect on the passage above and ask God to search your heart and try your thoughts and confess the ways that you have fallen short of His glory in thought, word, and deed.

Prayer of Confession

Our Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on us.

Although we have received your lavish love and unfailing forgiveness, we find it very hard to love each other well.

Our fallen nature draws us to an endless fascination with ourselves, and to a strong tendency to despise people who are different from us or don’t agree with us.

Instead of cultivating a love that covers sin, we rehearse the sins of those whom we dislike in an effort to justify ourselves and feel superior.

Father, forgive us, for we are broken and twisted lovers of ourselves.

Thank you for discarding our sins, for burying them in the deepest sea, for refusing to remember our sin and hold it against us.

In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.

Assurance of Grace in Christ (Micah 7:18-19)

Who is a God like you,

pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression

for the remnant of his inheritance?

He does not retain his anger forever,

because he delights in steadfast love.

He will again have compassion on us;

he will tread our iniquities underfoot.

You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Song of Thanksgiving (Jerusalem (See Him in Jerusalem))

Thank you to Angie Smith and Anna Smith for recording this song.

Message from God’s Word

Song of Response (Oh How Good It Is)

Confession of Faith (Heidelberg Catechism Q. 55)

What do you understand by “the communion of saints”?

First, that believers, all and everyone,

as members of Christ

have communion with him

and share in all his treasures and gifts.

Second, that everyone is duty-bound

to use his gifts

readily and cheerfully

for the benefit and well-being

of the other members.

Prayer for the Church and the World

• Pray that God would help you to not think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment.

• Select another individual or family from the church body and pray for them.

• Pray for the over 30,000,000 people who have lost their jobs due to the Coronavirus measures.

Closing Song (May the Grace of Christ Our Savior)

Closing Prayer (Ephesians 3:20-21)

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly

than all that we ask or think,

according to the power at work within us,

to him be glory in the church

and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations,

forever and ever. Amen.

SUPPORTING THE MINISTRY OF THE CHURCH

We would kindly ask, that despite our inability to gather, that you would maintain your financial support of Sand Harbor. We know that many of you give by providing a physical check when we take our offering during worship and so here are some alternatives that you can utilize:

You can mail a physical check to our P.O. Box: 

Sand Harbor Presbyterian Church

P.O. Box 3187 Tequesta, FL 33469

You can set up an automatically generated check through your banking system (kind of like a bill pay) and send it to our P.O. Box

Or you can give online through our secure online giving tool by clicking on the icon below:

GIVE BY TEXTING:

You can also give by texting the word “GIVE” to (833) 542-0151. See the video below to understand how this option works: