Worship Video: https://youtu.be/ujxmInSlHNo
Announcements
Offering Opportunities:
One Great Hour of Sharing– At the heart of OGHS offering is churches across ABC-USA supporting local churches, regions, and outreach programs in crisis. Both Village Baptist and First Baptist have this month set aside each year to collect this offering. Last year we helped the Midwest floods, this year COVID-19 relief.
Send a Kid to Camp– At this time there are still plans to hold camp at Pathfinder and Vick. If your kids are interested in camp the brochure can be found here: www.vpccministries.org Typically Village Baptist has raised money to send kids to camp via monthly meals and other fundraisers, but these events have been non-existent because of COVID-19 Help prepare to send kids to camp this summer.
Pathfinder Announcement:
Vick and Pathfinder Christian Camping Ministries has a new CEO! Amanda Simons (Mandy) has accepted the position of CEO and is in the process of moving to the area. When possible (post camping season), we will invite Mandy to join us for worship and share her heart for camping ministries.
Prelude Miriam Enman
Introit Through It All
Through it all, through it all,
I’ve learned to trust in Jesus,
I’ve learned to trust in God;
Through it all, Through it all,
I’ve learned to depend upon His Word.
CCLI Song #18211 Andrae Crouch
Call to Worship From When We Gather by James G. Kirk
Leader: Come to Christ, the living stone, chosen and precious in God’s sight.
People: We are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people.
L: Like living stones be built yourselves into a spiritual house.
P: We are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people.
L: Offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
P: We are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people.
L: Declare the wonderful deeds of Christ who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
P: We are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people.
L: Once you were no people but now you are God’ people; once you had not received mercy but now you have received mercy.
P: We are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people.
Hymn We Are God’s People
We are God’s people, the chosen of the Lord,
Born of His Spirit, established by His Word;
Our cornerstone is Christ alone,
And strong in Him we stand:
O let us live transparently
And walk heart to heart and hand in hand.
We are God’s loved ones, the Bride of Christ our Lord,
For we have known it, the love of God outpoured;
Now let us learn how to return
The gift of love once given:
O let us share each joy and care,
And live with a zeal that pleases Heaven.
We are the Body of which the Lord is Head,
Called to obey Him, now risen from the dead;
He wills us be a family,
Diverse yet truly one:
O let us give our gifts to God,
And so shall his work on earth be done.
We are a temple, the Spirit’s dwelling place,
Formed in great weakness, a cup to hold God’s grace;
We die alone, for on its own
Each ember loses fire:
Yet joined in one the flame burns on
To give warmth and light, and to inspire.
Prayer and Lord’s Prayer From Lectionary Worship Aids by H. Burnham Kirkland
All week long, our Father, we have heard the cacophony of conflicting voices; we have been enmeshed in the busyness of our work; we have been torn by the urgency of many responsibilities; we have been anxious about many things. It is good for us to come here for a while, to set aside this time for meditation and worship, to sit beside the still waters, and to hear the gentle voice of the Good Shepherd.
Praying Together:
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Gloria Patri
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen
Worship in Tithes and Offerings
Special Music as Offering
Prayer of Dedication
Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host: praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Responsive Prayer
L: God of Resurrection
P: Hear Our Prayer
Hymn What A Friend We Have In Jesus
What a friend we have in Jesus
All our sins and griefs to bear
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer
O what peace we often forfeit
O what needless pain we bear
All because we do not carry
Everything to God in prayer
Have we trials and temptations
Is there trouble anywhere
We should never be discouraged
Take it to the Lord in prayer
Can we find a friend so faithful
Who will all our sorrows share
Jesus knows our every weakness
Take it to the Lord in prayer
Are we weak and heavy laden
Cumbered with a load of care
Precious Savior still our refuge
Take it to the Lord in prayer
Do thy friends despise forsake thee
Take it to the Lord in prayer
In His arms He’ll take and shield thee
Thou wilt find a solace there
Text for the Message 1 Peter 2: 1-12 (ESV)
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.For it stands in Scripture:
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,
a cornerstone chosen and precious,
and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,
“The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,”
and
“A stone of stumbling,
and a rock of offense.”
They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
Message
Hymn In Christ Alone
In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid Ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand
In Christ alone! Who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
Till on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live
There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ
No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life’s first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand
Benediction (Blessing)
Postlude Miriam Enman