Worship Service | August 9, 2020

CALL TO WORSHIP

SCRIPTURE READING (66:8)

Bless our God, O peoples; let the sound of his praise be heard…

ADORATION

GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS

VERSE 1
Great is thy faithfulness,
O God my Father
There is no shadow of Turning with Thee
Thou changest not
Thy compassions they fail not
As Thou has been
Thou forever wilt be

CHORUS
Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me

VERSE 2
Summer and winter and
Springtime and harvest
Sun, moon, and stars
In their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness,
Mercy and love

VERSE 3
Pardon for sin
And a peace that endureth
Thy own dear presence to
Cheer and to guide
Strength for today
And bright hope for tomorrow
Blessings all mine,
With ten thousand beside

CONFESSION

CALL AND RESPONSE

LEADER: O our God, we are ashamed and blush to lift our faces to you, our God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our head, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

TOGETHER: We have set our minds on things beneath, which should have been set on things above, where our treasure is, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God; these are the things which we should seek.

LEADER: We have paid regard to vain idols and forsaken our hope of steadfast love; have forsaken the fountain of living waters, for cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

TOGETHER: We have trampled the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and have been anxious concerning what we shall eat and what we shall drink and what we shall wear, the things after which the Gentiles seek. We have lifted up our souls to what is false, and set our eyes on that which is nothing; have looked at the things that are seen, which are temporal, but the things that are eternal have been forgotten and postponed.

ASSURANCE

HIS MERCY IS MORE

VERSE 1
What love could remember no wrongs we have done
Omniscient, all knowing, He counts not their sum
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore
Our sins they are many,
His mercy is more

VERSE 2
What patience would wait as we constantly roam
What Father, so tender, is calling us home
He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor
Our sins they are many,
His mercy is more

VERSE 3
What riches of kindness He lavished on us
His blood was the payment, His life was the cost
We stood 'neath a debt we could never afford
Our sins they are many,
His mercy is more

CHORUS
Praise the Lord
His mercy is more Stronger than darkness, new every morn
Our sins they are many,
His mercy is more

THANKSGIVING

PASTORAL PRAYER

PASSING THE PEACE

PROCLAMATION

SCRIPTURE READING (Mark 10:1–12)

And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.

And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

SERMON

“Marriage, Divorce, and the Kingdom of God” (Mark 10:1–12)
Pastor Todd Bumgarner

LORD’S SUPPER

INVITATION, INSTITUTION, CONSECRATION

INSTRUCTIONS AND DISTRIBUTION
PARTAKING AND PRAYER

SONGS OF RESPONSE

CHRIST IS MINE

VERSE 1
Mine are days that God has numbered
I was made to walk with Him
Yet I look for worldly treasure
And forsake the King of kings

CHORUS 1
But mine is hope in my Redeemer
Though I fall, His love is sure
For Christ has paid for every failing
I am His forevermore

VERSE 2
Mine are tears in times of sorrow
Darkness not yet understood
Through the valley I must travel
Where I see no earthly good

CHORUS 2
But mine is peace that flows from heaven
And the strength in times of need
I know my pain will not be wasted
Christ completes His work in me

VERSE 3
Mine are days here as a stranger
Pilgrim on a narrow way
One with Christ I will encounter
Harm and hatred for His name

CHORUS 3
But mine is armor for this battle
Strong enough to last the war
And He has said He will deliver
Safely to the golden shore

And mine are keys to Zion city
Where beside the King I walk
For there my heart has found its treasure
Christ is mine forevermore

BRIDGE
Come rejoice now, O my soul
For His love is my reward
Fear is gone and hope is sure
Christ is mine forevermore!

CHORUS 4
And mine are keys to Zion city
Where beside the King I walk
For there my heart has found its treasure
Christ is mine forevermore

HOW HE LOVES

VERSE 1
He is jealous for me
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree
Bending beneath the weight
Of His wind and mercy

When all of a sudden
I am unaware of these afflictions
Eclipsed by glory
And I realize just how beautiful You are
And how great Your affections are for me

PRECHORUS And oh, how He loves us so Oh, how He loves us
How He loves us all

CHORUS
He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves

VERSE 2
We are His portion and He is our prize
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking

So Heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets
When I think about the way that

COMMISSIONING

PASTORAL EXHORTATION BASED ON MATTHEW 5:13–16