Sermon Tone Analysis

Welcome || Host Time || Student Pastor || Stephen Ellison

10:25 Stephen offers our guests to grab coffee and snack (if available—pointing to the lobby doors) announcing we will start worship in 5 min.

Worship team in place before Stephen takes the stage10:28am

Theme Music begins promptly at 10:30

Good Morning Church!

Covenant Members, would you join me in welcoming all of our first time and returning guests?

( energetic applause) So good to see all of you and to be here.

I hope you have been made to feel welcome today.

This church is about walking out this life together in the RADICAL GRACE of JESUS CHRIST.

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

Scripture tells us:‌​

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

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

You come and we figure it out together.

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

guest connection:

covenant connection:

Keep it upbeat

Keep it upbeat

— Also, for our Guests we want to connect with you!

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

There you will find information about various ministries for the whole family.

Also inside the program, along with the insert, there is a connect envelope.

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

During this offering time we will give all of you a moment to fill out the connect envelopes (and they also serve as a place you can give any money or financial gift that you would offer to the Lord).

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During that time you will have an opportunity to connect with us and be obedient and pray over your gift (or substitute words: offering to the Lord, generosity, or generous) to the Lord as well.

Then simply place the connect envelope in the offering plate as it passes.

We desire to connect with you and help you get plugged in.

covenant connection:

Now Covenant Members, if you will grab the insert inside your program and take it out, it is promoting some awesome things that we want to highlight so please take a look at that and see how you can get plugged in the various ministry opportunities we have.

One way we want to encourage you to get involved is through our GROUPS ministry.

GROUPS

If you are a Covenant Member we hope you are plugged in to a GROUP.

Our GROUPS are all multi-generational so feel free to try any GROUP next Sunday.

Our Groups meet at 9am on Sundays before worship.

We value GROUP life here at Concord and it is a great way to stay connected, encouraged, and to be personally ministered too.

That goes for our guests too.

Try one, Try them all…, until you find the right fit…that’s why we have so many.

Simply connect with one of our Greeters ( they are stationed at all of our entrances) when you arrive next Sunday at 9am and they can suggest a GROUP for you to try.

It’s no pressure.

Go back to upbeat

— Also, for our Guests we want to connect with you!

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

There you will find information about various ministries for the whole family.

Also inside the program, along with the insert, there is a connect envelope.

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

During this offering time we will give all of you a moment to fill out the connect envelopes (and they also serve as a place you can give any money or financial gift that you would offer to the Lord).

—something to this extent

During that time you will have an opportunity to connect with us and be obedient and pray over your gift (or substitute words: offering to the Lord, generousity, or generous) to the Lord as well.

Simply place the Lord’s gift in the envelope; fill out the connect info and during the offering moment we will give you instructions and time to fill that out and have time to pray.

Then simply place the connect envelope in the offering plate as it passes.

We desire to connect with you and help you get plugged in.

We desire to connect with you and help you get plugged in.

A CALL TO WORSHIP

Responsive Reading

Ask the congregation to stand and join you in a responsive reading from , (instruct: you will read the first couple lines and when you finish the congregation will read the bold print on the screen loudly and in unison—or something like that)

Stephen: Proclaim the Lord’s greatness with me; let us exalt his name together.

Taste and see that the Lord is good.

Congregation: Those who look to him are radiant with joy; their faces will never be ashamed.

Congregation: Those who look to him are radiant with joy; their faces will never be ashamed.

Congregation: Those who look to him are radiant with joy; their faces will never be ashamed.

lead directly in to a time of Silent Confession--explain:

Silent Confession--explain:

Silent Confession--explain:

Silent Confession--explain:

CONFESSION of SINS

Scripture teaches us that God reveals Himself to us because He is merciful and because loves us...

Eph 2:4-5

We confess here that “It’s ok to not be ok, but it’s not ok to stay that way.”

So one of the ways that we flesh that out is by taking a moment to turn our sins over to Christ.

We believe the truth of Scripture’s promise that, “If we confess our sins, He [God] is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us of all unrighteousness” ().

It’s within this promise we take our sins to Jesus.

I want read this Scripture over us to remind us to be obedient and confess our sins to our Holy God.

Hear the Word of the Lord and let it take you to a moment of solemn confession of your sins before God

Psalm

Moment of soluitude for personal confession of sin

Then lead a corporate prayer of confession

exit the stage

FORGIVEN || worship leader: Cole Pevey || before music begins

Call to Worship through reading of Scripture and through Song: The Assurance of Pardon

Cole says (with ENERGY): As believers, we have been forgiven through Christ’s finished work on the cross.

Because of that we can worship and BE ASSURED WE HAVE BEEN pardoned; forgiven from all of our sin by God by His grace through faith in Jesus.

Isn’t that good news

Hannah (or Slide Team): Make sure Scriptures are ready to cue up as Cole says, *“The Word assures us*...” not before or too far after…please be alert.

All slides must be changed when the reader moves to the next verse (no delay).

Total focus!

And all slide must be changed when the reader moves to the next verse (no delay).

Total focus.

We don’t want the congregation distracted or reading the screen premature to the verse nor waiting on the right verse to show up.

Encourage your team to pursue this will excellence.

We don’t want the congregation distracted or reading the screen premature to the verse be read, nor waiting on the right verse to show up.

Encourage your team to pursue this will excellence.

Cole says: *The Word assures us* in this:

Song of Pardon - Concord Worship

Song of Pardon (1-with chorus tag):

Band remains on stage