The Word and The Work: Not my will, but Yours

Back to normal? Not really. While we have a pretty standard Sunday planned, no Sunday is “normal” when we gather to worship the triune God. We have the holy opportunity to submit ourselves to His word, and to practice the work of worship so that we will be made more into the image of His Son. I can’t wait!

Lay me Down

This week we start by laying down our lives. When Christ saves us we have a new mission. A new goal in life, and that is to fulfill His mission. So we begin by singing this proclamation. It isn’t our ideals and wants that we pursue anymore. We have been set free to work to accomplish His mission here on earth. We sing to remind ourselves that it is a joy to say, “thy will be done”.

Come Thou Fount

In 1752, a young Robert Robinson attended an evangelical meeting to heckle the believers and make fun of the proceedings. Instead, he listened in awe to the words of the great preacher George Whitefield, and in 1755, at the age of twenty, Robinson responded to the call he felt three years earlier and became a Christian. Another three years later, when preparing a sermon for his church in Norfolk, England, he penned the words that have become one of the church’s most-loved hymns: “Come, thou fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace.”

Using imagery of Christ as the giver of living water and the shepherd gathering his sheep back into the fold, this hymn reminds the worshipper of the ever bountiful grace of God. Like Robinson, we too are “prone to wander,” and are quick to seek redemption through our own power. But God continues to bring us back from our wandering, until, songs of praise on our lips, we dance forever before the mount of His redeeming love.

No Other Name

We will finish by singing together this great proclamation of God’s power and might. He has come to redeem the world as a reigning king. We look forward to the day when we will lift up our eyes to see our King coming, ushering in the final moments of His Kingdom.

Lord’s Supper

This week we will observe the Lord’s supper together. While you will hear more about it on Sunday, it will be worth your time to prepare yourself through prayer.

This is the table

Not of the church, but of the Lord

it is made ready for those who love Him

      and for those who want to love Him more

So come-you who have much faith

     and you who have little

You who have been here often 

     and you who have not been here long

You who have tried to follow

     and you who have failed

Come-it is the Lord who invites you

it is His will that those who want Him

          Should meet Him here. 

I can’t wait to worship together with you this weekend, and to get better at the work we do.