Sermon Tone Analysis

Invocation || Host Time || Call to Worship through Prayer (no music)-led by Stephen

Invocation: Hebrews 4:14-16

Hebrews 4:

One of the glories of the gospel is that—despite our lack of merit—we all have access to the throne room of God.

The invitation to confidently approach God and receive mercy and grace is what sets Christianity apart in the clutter of all the world religions.

This call perfectly captures this privilege.

Welcome

Welcome

It’s awesome to have all of you here, whether guest or covenant member…, I hope you have been made to feel welcome today.

This church is about worshiping Jesus, experiencing and learning of His radical grace, and to walk with each other as the local church in that grace together.

​ ESVfor all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

​ ESVfor all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

And because of that, it’s our heart, that here a Concord, you are made to feel “Known, Loved, and that you Belong.”

And because of that it’s our heart that here a Concord you are made to feel “Know, Loved, and that you Belong.”

No matter where you are on your faith journey: thinking about taking a step, just starting to take baby steps; the point is if that’s you…know this you don’t have to clean up to come here.

As a matter of fact Scripture echos that:

We are also a Church where we understand the “radical grace” received through faith in Jesus Christ.

And because of that it’s our heart that here a Concord you are made to feel “Know, Loved, and that you Belong.”

No matter where you are on your faith journey: thinking about taking a step; just starting to take a steps; or you’ve been stepping for a while and are deep into your journey with Jesus; the point is, if that’s you…know this: You don’t have to clean up to come here.

As a matter of fact Scripture echos that:

​ ESV but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

​ ESVbut God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

No matter where you are on your faith journey: thinking about taking a step, just starting to take baby steps; the point is if that’s you…know this you don’t have to clean up to come here.

You come and we figure out together that it’s Jesus and only Jesus who can clean up our mess.

So you don’t have to get it all figured out before you come.

You come and we figure it out together…no matter where you are in your spiritual journey.

Whatever season you are in, we know the struggle of this sinful world…but we also know that our God is bigger than our circumstances.

So you don’t have to get it all figured out before you come.

You come and we figure it out together…no matter where you are in your spiritual journey.

Whatever season you are in, we know the struggle of this sinful world…but we also know that our God is bigger than our circumstances.

Whatever season you are in, we know the struggle of this sinful world…but, we also know that our God is bigger than our circumstances.

connect:

connect:

With that said, I hope you received a program this morning you’ll notice in that program there more info about who we are and what we offer as a church.

On the back you’ll find contact info.

Now the insert is promoting some awesome things coming up like: this Wednesday we are starting Concord U.

This is a Wednesday night group time offered in a college style atmosphere for our adults while we have gatherings for kids and students at the same time.

Our Wednesday nights are designed for the whole family.

On that insert you can sign up for some various class options.

Later on in our service we will worship through a time of offering.Also, if you notice along with the insert there is a connection card envelope in your program.

During our offering worship we will give you a moment to fill out the connect cards and the envelopes also serve as a place you can give any money or gift that you would give.

Simply place your gift in the envelope; fill out the connection card and during our offering worship we will you to place the insert with the Wed night Concord U class selection and your offering.

Regardless, we desire to connect with you and help you get plugged in.

With that said, I hope you received a program this morning you’ll notice in that program there more info about who we are and what we offer as a church.

Now the insert is promoting some awesome things going on like: this Wednesday we Concord U classes.

Concord U is a Wednesday night group time offered in a college style atmosphere for our adults while we have gatherings for kids and students at the same time.

Our Wednesday nights are designed for the whole family.

On that insert you can sign up for some various class options.

Later on in our service we will worship through a time of offering.

During this time you can place that filled insert in the plate as it passes.

Also, if you notice along with the insert there is a connection card envelope in your program.

We want to connect with you.

So we will give you time to fill out both the insert and the connect envelope later in the service.

The envelopes also serve as a place you can give any money or financial gift that you would give to the Lord through the local church.

Simply place your gift in the envelope; fill out the connection card and the Concord U insert, and during the offering portion of our worship we’ll give you a time to fill those out pray over your financial gift to God and just place the in the plate as it passes.

Regardless, we desire to connect with you and help you get plugged in.

Call to Worship

Call to Worship

We are here to worship God through song, the preaching and reading of His word and through prayer.

So, I am calling each of you to engage.

From this point on it’s not about us, it’s not about you, or any circumstance that is weighing on you.

So I want to pray for us to enter into a time of worship where are hearts are fixed on God’s goodness and faithfulness; open to His conviction as His Word and Spirit speak into the deepest and darkest places with in us.

In that tension, we call you to action and the action we are calling you to is the very purpose in which you were created.

To Worship the living God for all that He is!!!! Let’s begin this action by bowing our heads in a moment of prayer as we acknowledge His presence here…let’s pray.

Prayer

(a focused prayer on God’s goodness and calling His people to worship him and those who are seeking or skeptical to awaken to the life giving knowledge of grace offered through faith in Jesus Christ…)

Amen!

I invite you to stand and worship with us!

---Leave the stage----Worship team will start to play---WT—do not play until Stephen finishes prayer.

Worship Team: Leads song in a call for all to worship

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Scripture Reading || ESV

Reader takes the stage as Cole is praying- then follows the script:

Good morning church, and guests welcome to Concord.

My name is Drew Bradshaw, and I serve Concord as a Deacon and as part of our Worship Team.

I am passionate about the good news of Jesus and how our vision and mission as a church work to make Him known.

Our mission is that: We exist to connect people through loving community as we introduce them to Jesus and help them follow Him.

I am able to serve this church through building community in our Group life (I love my Group).

This morning I have the privilege of sharing with you the God’s holy inspired Word from the Scriptures.

Would you please turn with me in your Bibles or on your device, to the book of Hebrews (found in the New Testament), chapter 3, and we will be reading starting in verse 1. **Only mention the first verse so people won’t read ahead.

If you are joining us this morning and you do not have a Bible, you should see a White Paperback one lying around under your seats, feel free to use that one.

And if you don’t own a Bible, consider that our free gift to you.

*do not read this...(take a moment—count to 3 in your head then READ—Book, Chapter, Verse, then Scripture)

Hebrews 3:1

Say: This is the Word of the Lord.

(exit stage)

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Sermon

Introduction

I’m so excited you are here with us this morning, this text is so amazing!

We are going to continue pressing in to our study in Acts and our series “Deep Community.”

We’ve been looking at this simple servant (who because of his faith in Christ and his obedience), who under the conviction and guidance of the Holy Spirit, is boldly speaking about Jesus to some religious thugs who are holding to their past traditions, rather than accepting that Jesus was the Messiah.

The irony is that their past tradition is based on the part of the same Scriptures that we cling to and teach today.

They where followers of (what we know or call today) the Old Testament.

In the OT, a simple servant named Moses was the vessel God used to point His people to deliverance; to the Promised Land (the land God promised Abraham).

Moses gave them the law (10 commandments), and help set up the construct of the path to follow Yahweh (God as He was known in the OT).

But these thugs, who were acting in the name of religion, were so tightly bound to how they had been raised and taught that they were blind to very reality of God one day sending a better version of Moses who would deliver the people, from being oppressed by other nations.

It was this oppression where in there mind they fashioned a Messiah that looked more like a champion, a conquering king, who would swoop in and rescue them from Rome in an even more impressive and galant way than Moses did.

They couldn’t fathom that God would usher this King in through a simple carpenter who, was born among them and at age 30 began His public ministry to fulfill God’s rescuing purpose.

They had no vision for this because tradition and their own imaginations had shaped what this Messiah looked like.

Here’s what we must start to understand today.

As we look at the Stephen preaching Jewish history and Moses, as the example (just as he did Abraham, and Joseph—great patriarchs of the Jewish culture) to ultimately help others see past their own personal vision of what they thought God would do.