Order of Service – Sunday 7 March 2021 – LENT 3

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CALL TO WORSHIP

Lord we have come to listen to You and to share with You all that is on our hearts and minds.

We have come to praise You and to give You thanks.

We have come because You are worthy and because of our need.

We have come because You are here and because You have promised to go with us when we leave.

Fill us with Your love and empower us with Your Spirit that we may worship You in Christ. Amen.

Let us praise God who meets our needs and leads us to places of tranquillity and rest.

Let us praise God who comforts us and replaces our fears with overflowing love.

HYMN:       111       “Praise to The Lord, the Almighty”

PSALTER  READING  (Responsively)         Psalm 19          Pages 541-542

LENT PRAYER

Let us seek the living God whose love is close at hand,
Let us pray to the One who waits patiently to be found.

May we abandon our dishonest ways,
And give up our unrighteous thoughts.

Let us come back to God with repentant hearts,
Let us come fasting and weeping, sorry for our sins.

God is merciful and kind to those who return,
God’s love is extravagant and forgiving to all who come near.

Let us change our lives and not our clothes,
Let us come back to the God who never leaves us.

Though our sins are like scarlet wounds,
They will be washed away and become white as snow.

(Pause to remind yourself of the places in which you have experienced God’s forgiveness & redemptive love)

Have mercy on us, O God,
Because of Your unfailing love.

Because of Your great compassion,
Blot out the sins that stain us.

Wash us clean from our guilt,
And purify our hearts from our sin.

Renew our inner spirit to become steadfast and unswerving,
So that we will be willing to obey You.

Do not turn us away from Your loving presence O God,
Restore the joy of Your salvation within us.

The sacrifice You desire is a penitent spirit,
You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.

HYMN:       192       “Christ is the World’s Redeemer”

BIBLE READINGS –                                                                Frank Knowles

1 Corinthians 1:18-25 (Page 1128)                                                 John 2:13-22 (Page 1051)

MUSICAL REFLECTION

MESSAGE:               “Destroy and I Will Raise it Again!”                    Krikor

HYMN:     489     “We Know that Christ is Raised and Dies No More”

NOTICES – Time4U – Will commence this Wednesday 10 March 10:00 am.

  • Sunday 14 March, Krikor will be away preaching at the Armenian Evangelical Church of Sydney, Willoughby, for the AMAA Sunday. Bob Minton will take the service here.
  • Congregational Meeting – Sunday 28 March after Service.
  • Elders’ & Council Meetings Wed 31 March 12:00 noon.
  • Pizza/Movie Night – Tues 6 April 6:30 pm, start at 7:15 pm. The movie will be – “Beneath the Hill 60”.
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OFFERING  –   “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

HYMN:       510       “My God, Your Table Now is Spread” (Tune 342)

THE LORD’S SUPPER

Blessed are You, Lord, God of all creation. Through Your goodness we have this bread to offer which earth has given and human hands have made. It will become for us the bread of life.

Blessed be God forever.

Blessed are You. Lord, God of all creation. Through Your goodness we have this cup to offer, fruit of the vine and work of human hands. It will become for us our spiritual drink.

Blessed be God forever.

INVOCATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Eternal God, let Your Spirit come upon Your holy people, and may He sanctify these gifts of bread and wine.

As we share these holy things, may we be nourished and grow in grace to Your honour and glory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

MEMORIAL PRAYER

Holy God, with this bread and with this cup, we do as our Saviour has commanded; we celebrate the redemption He has won for us.

For as often as we eat this bread and drink from this cup we proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

Receive our praise, God almighty, through Jesus Christ our Lord, with whom and in whom by the power of the Holy Spirit, we worship You in songs of never-ending praise:

Blessing, honour, glory and power are Yours forever and ever. Amen.

BREAKING THE BREAD

The bread we break is a sharing of the body of Christ.

The cup we take is sharing in the blood of Christ.

Take in faith this Holy Sacrament of the body and the blood of Christ in remembrance that He died for you, and feed on Him in your hearts with thanksgiving.

DISMISSAL

We thank You our God that You have fed us with this sacrament, united us with Christ, and given us a foretaste of the heavenly banquet prepared for all humanity.

Loving God, we offer ourselves to You as a living sacrifice through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Send us out in the power of the Holy Spirit to live and work to Your praise and glory. Amen.

HYMN:       504       “O Jesus, Blessed Lord, to You”

BLESSING

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