John 1:35-51
Links to the scriptures and hymns used during this service are provided below. Click on the hymn title to be taken to a page with sheet music.
Order of Service
Call to Worship:
1 Chronicles 29:10-13
Hymns:
Prayer of Confession and Assurance of Forgiveness:
Eternal Father, you are good beyond all thought, but we are wretched and blind. Our lips are ready to confess, but our hearts are slow to feel, and our ways reluctant to amend. We bring ourselves to you and ask you to wound us, bend us, mold us. Grant us to know that the way of transgressors is hard, that evil paths are wretched paths, and to depart from you is to lose all good. Work in us a more profound and abiding repentance. Grant that through the tears of repentance we may see more clearly the brightness and glories of the saving cross. As we quiet ourselves to confess sin, hear our prayers, for we come in the name of our Mediator, Jesus Christ, to seek forgiveness.
Adapted from The Valley of Vision, 124-125
Scripture Readings:
Genesis 28:10-17
Hebrews 10:19-25
Affirmation of Faith: The Apostles' Creed
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.
And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit; born of the virgin Mary; suffered under Pontius Pilate: was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended to the dead; the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; whence he shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit; the holy catholic* church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.
*Small-c catholic refers to the church universal—God’s people in all times and places—and should not be confused with the capital-C Roman Catholic church.
Hymn: In Christ Alone
Sermon: John 1:35-51
Closing Hymn: Doxology