Christ Presbyterian Church

Worship Service

March 27, 2022

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 Welcome to Sunday Worship Service
Fourth Sunday in Lent
March 27, 2022 10:00AM
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GATHERING AROUND THE WORD

Opening Prayer
Call to Worship
One: If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation!
All: Thanks be to God for such great mercy.
One: Everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!
All: Thanks be to God for new beginnings!
One: God has given us the ministry of reconciliation through Christ Jesus.
All: Together we will make a new beginning in Christ!
One: Let us worship God with joyful hearts, trusting God to renew us and all
things.
All: We will lift our praises to God with hearts refreshed by grace.
*Hymn
Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.

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 Refrain
This is my story; this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story; this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.
Perfect submission, perfect delight,
visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
angels descending, bring from above
echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
refrain
Perfect submission, all is at rest;
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
watching and waiting, looking above,
filled with his goodness, lost in his love.
refrain
Prayer of Confession
God of love and mercy, when we pause for a moment in your presence, the
daily details of our lives press in on us. We recall things left undone and
opportunities ignored. We remember careless words spoken and
disappointments that trouble our souls. In silence we offer to you our
misspent moments and missed opportunities:
Silent Confession
Assurance of Pardon
One: Remember the promise that the apostle Paul declares: What can
separate us from the love of Christ? Hardship? Distress? Peril or sword?
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through the God who
loves us. Neither death nor life, things present nor things to come can

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 separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. Thanks be to God for
such a promise!
All: The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us all!
PROCLAIMING THE WORD

Prayer of Illumination
Reading from the Epistles
2 Corinthians 5:16-21
From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even
though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer
in that way. 17 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old
has passed away; see, everything has become new! 18 All this is from God, who
reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of
reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not
counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of
reconciliation to us. 20 So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making
his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might
become the righteousness of God.
The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version. (1989). (2 Co 5:16–21). Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

One: This is the Word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God!
Special Music
What a Wonderous Love is This
Solo – Susan Taylor

Reading from the Gospel

Luke 15:1-3, 11-32
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2 And
the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes
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sinners and eats with them.” 3 So he told them this parable: 11 “There was a
man who had two sons. 12 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give
me the share of the property that will belong to me.’ So he divided his property
between them. 13 A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and
traveled to a distant country, and there he squandered his property in dissolute
living. 14 When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout
that country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out
to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs.
16 He would gladly have filled himself with the pods that the pigs were eating;
and no one gave him anything. 17 But when he came to himself he said, ‘How
many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am
dying of hunger! 18 I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father,
I have sinned against heaven and before you; 19 I am no longer worthy to be
called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands.”’ 20 So he set off and
went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled
with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him. 21 Then
the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am
no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22 But the father said to his slaves,
‘Quickly, bring out a robe—the best one—and put it on him; put a ring on his
finger and sandals on his feet. 23 And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat
and celebrate; 24 for this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost
and is found!’ And they began to celebrate. 25 “Now his elder son was in the
field; and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and
dancing. 26 He called one of the slaves and asked what was going on. 27 He
replied, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf,
because he has got him back safe and sound.’ 28 Then he became angry and
refused to go in. His father came out and began to plead with him. 29 But he
answered his father, ‘Listen! For all these years I have been working like a slave
for you, and I have never disobeyed your command; yet you have never given
me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends. 30 But when this

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son of yours came back, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you
killed the fatted calf for him!’ 31 Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always
with me, and all that is mine is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and rejoice,
because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and
has been found.’”
The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version. (1989). (Lk 15:1–3, 11-32). Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

One: This is the Word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God!
Sermon Rev. John Scott

“Seeking Reconciliation”
RESPONDING TO THE WORD
*Affirmation of Faith The Apostle’s 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 Ghost,
born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead,
and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the
dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the
Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the
dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion
of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life
everlasting. AMEN.
*Hymn
Make Me A Channel of Your Peace
Make me a channel of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love.
Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord,
and where there's doubt, true faith in you.
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 Refrain
Oh, Master, grant that I may never seek
so much to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love with all my soul.
Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, only light,
and where there's sadness, ever joy.
refrain
Make me a channel of your peace.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
in giving of ourselves that we receive,
and in dying that we're born to eternal life.
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Invitation to Giving
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. Amen.
Prayer of Dedication
Prayer of the People
The Lord’s Prayer
GOING OUT INTO THE WORLD

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Family Choir
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
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 hast been Thou forever wilt be.
Refrain
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!
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.
refrain
Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!
refrain
Benediction
Postlude

Please join us for coffee fellowship today in Narthex E after worship.

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