Looking to Sunday 9/5 - Communion

Horicon Baptist Church
September 5, 2021
 
Order of Service
Call to Worship: Ezekiel 36:25-27
163 – Open My Eyes, That I May See
Announcements
Prayer
Worship Through Giving
Front Cover – The Doxology
Prayer of Confession
Assurance of Pardon
255 – Blessed Assurance
Sermon: John 2:23-3:6
Communion
In Christ Alone

Sermon Outline
Man’s Greatest Need – John 2:23-3:6 – Taylor Callen

1. All people are wicked. (23-25)
2. All people are hopeless. (1-4)
3. All people need to be born again. (5-6)

 
“I might preach to you forever. I might borrow the eloquence of Demosthenes or of Cicero, but you will not come unto Christ. I might beg of you on my knees, with tears in my eyes, and show you the horrors of hell and the joys of heaven, the sufficiency of Christ, and your own lost condition, but you would none of you come unto Christ of yourselves unless the Spirit that rested on Christ should draw you. It is true of all men in their natural condition that they will not come unto Christ.”- Charles Spurgeon
 
Announcements & Events
Please pick up the new prayer chain.
Reminder to everyone to be safe!
August 12, Cozanne Holly Marsh’s baptism! 12:30pm

Call to Worship
Hear the word of the Lord:
25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

Prayer
Almighty God,
We praise you on this Sabbath day for the gift of your church.
We come from different places and different backgrounds,
but this morning we worship You as one body.
We thank you for this day of rest,
and ask that you would bless us this morning.

Bless this body.
Watch over this people.
Care for Your church.
We thank you that we have members who love one another,
who are willing to take time to pray for one another.
We thank you for potlucks and Stewart’s coffee
and the many opportunities in between to get to know each other better.
We praise You that we can add another to the body with Cozanne,
Lord thank you for bringing her into our local church,
Thank you for her desire to obediently obey You in baptism.
May she be better off for joining,
and may we be more like you because of her contribution.

Lead us now as we continue to worship You in Spirit and in truth.
May our praises be an acceptable sacrifice to You.
Almighty God and loving Father, we love you and praise you,
In Your Son’s Glorious Name we pray, Amen.

Worship Through Giving
What shall I return to the LORD
for all his bounty to me?
I will give what I have promised
in the presence of all God’s people.
—from Psalm 116: 12, 14

Prayer of Confession
If we say that we have no sin,
we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins,
he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins
and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
In humility and faith let us confess our sin to God.
—based on 1 John 1: 8-9

Assurance of Pardon
15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear. Instead, you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!” 16 The Spirit himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children, 17 and if children, also heirs—heirs of God and coheirs with Christ. - Romans 8:15-16