MARCH 3, 2024

The Order for the Worship of God

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Let the first tone of the organ be a call to quiet meditation in which all may become aware of God’s presence, and lift up a prayer for yourself and for Faith Church.

Prelude     Variations on Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier          Johann Gottfried Walther

Blessed Jesu, at Thy word

We are gather'd all to hear Thee

Welcome and Greeting

Preparation of Our Hearts

Call to Worship 

Psalm     # 100     All People That on Earth Do Dwell          (Gray Psalter Hymnal)

                             Sung to tune of Old Hundreth, # 134

Prayer of Confession     Front of Gray Psalter Hymnal 

Prayer for Illumination          Glenn Sparks

Old Testament Reading     Isaiah 25:6-9     (NRSVUE)

       6On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear. 7And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the covering that is spread over all nations; 8he will swallow up death forever.

Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. 9It will be said on that day, “See, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that he might save us. This is the Lord for whom we have waited; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”

Epistle Reading     1 Corinthians 10:1-4

       10 I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3and all ate the same spiritual food, 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

Lector: This is the Word of the Lord.

Congregation: Thanks be to God for His Word.

Choral Anthem     Holy Thy Name

God of love and truth and beauty

Holy thy name

Fount of order, law, and duty

Holy thy name

As in heav’n thy hosts adore thee

As they bow in awe before thee

So on Earth, Lord, we extoll thee

Holy thy name

Lord, remove our guilty blindness

Holy thy name

Show thy heart of living kindness

Holy thy name

By our heart’s deep felt contrition

By our mind’s enlightened vision

By our will’s complete submission

Holy thy name

In our worship, Lord of glory

Holy thy name

In our work, however lowly

Holy thy name

In each heart’s imagination

In our praise and adoration

In the conscience of the nation

Holy is thy name

Children’s Sermon

Hymn     # 58     Before the Throne of God Above          (Supplemental Hymnal)

New Testament Reading     John 6:35-59

       35Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. 37Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me I will never drive away, 38for I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. 39And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me but raise it up on the last day. 40This is indeed the will of my Father, that all who see the Son and believe in him may have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.”

       41Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 43Jesus answered them, “Do not complain among yourselves. 44No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me, and I will raise that person up on the last day. 45It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. 46Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48I am the bread of life. 49Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

       52The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53So Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day, 55for my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me and I in them. 57Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which the ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever.” 59He said these things while he was teaching in a synagogue at Capernaum.

Sermon          Pastor Andrew Winter

Gathering of Our Tithes and Offerings

      Response     # 638     The Doxology          (Gray Psalter Hymnal)

      Prayer of Dedication

Hymn     Insert     Here Is Love

The LORD’s Supper    

      Prayer of Thanksgiving

      Invitation to the Table     Westminster Confession 29.7

       Worthy receivers, physically partaking of the visible substances of this sacrament, do then also by faith actually and in fact, but not physically or bodily, spiritually receive and feed on Christ crucified and on all the benefits of his death. The body and blood of Christ are not then bodily or physically in, with, or under the bread and wine; but they are actually spiritually present to the faith of believers in the administration of this sacrament, just as the bread and wine are physically present.

     Giving & Receiving the Bread and the Cup

      Prayer of Consecration:

       Almighty Lord: we are thankful for all the benefits given us in this bread and wine, this body and blood. As the grain was harvested and the grapes gathered for this food, so may your church in every place be gathered into your household. And as the grain was ground and the grapes crushed, so may our lives be spent in your service, until you return in triumph to gather to yourself the harvest and call us to the marriage feast of the lamb. Amen. 

Hymn     # 555     Lead On, O King Eternal          (Gray Psalter Hymnal)

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Benediction 

Postlude     Canticle of Praise          Fenton Groden