Sermon Tone Analysis

Welcome || Host Time || Covenant Member || Greg Neil

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:‌​​ ESVbut 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:

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).

^—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, 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.

D-GROUPS

With each generation, we see a widening gap between those following Christ and those following culture.

At Concord the Holy Spirit has pressed into us the need to disciple people; teach people, help them in their journey to follow Jesus (something that, sadly today’s church has gotten away from).

Through the Holy Spirits prompting we have commited as leaders of the church to be apart of D-Groups.

D-Groups are where 4-5 people of the same gender commit to meeting once a week off campus and study the Bible together and get in deep community with each other for 6 months to a year.

This does not replace Groups (meeting here on Sunday morning, or Concord U on Wed nights), this is not even a “church program.”

It’s about growing in obedience to the teachings of Christ in real (heart-filled) conversation.

“We have a job before us.”

Join a D-Group.

“Disciple, share the hope of Christ and walk with people into spiritual maturity.

Future generations depend on it.”

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“We have a job before us.”

Join a D-Group.

“Disciple, share the hope of Christ and walk with people into spiritual maturity.

Future generations depend on it.”

“We have a job before us.”

Join a D-Group.

“Disciple, share the hope of Christ and walk with people into spiritual maturity.

Future generations depend on it.”

INFO ON D-GROUPS CONTACT: lead pastor Joe Brantley by email.

joe@concordchurch.tv

A CALL TO WORSHIP

Responsive Reading

Ask the congregation to stand and join you as we begin our worship through a proclamation of God’s goodness through His Holy Word in a responsive reading

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

Greg: Come all to the ends of the earth.

Remember and turn to the LORD, and let all the families of the nations worship before you.

Congregation: For this we come, O LORD, from among the nations, to sing to your name.

That all the ends of the earth remember and turn to the LORD and that all the families of the nations will worship before you.

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

Short Prayer over our time of praising and worshiping through proclaiming, singing, preaching, praying and generosity.

CONFESSION of SINS

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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

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

​ ESV1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.

2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! 3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.

7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

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

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!

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.

Moment of soluitude for personal confession of sinThen lead a corporate prayer of confessionexit the stage

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Encourage your team to pursue this will excellence.

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

Song of Pardon (2 songs)

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Song of Pardon (2 songs)

Cole prays:

Band exits stage

As Cole prays Scripture Reader will make their way to the stage.

Scripture Reader takes the Stage during Cole’s Prayer (uses White labelled Mic) and then reads the Script

Scripture Reading || Psalm 103:2-3 ESV

by Covenant Member || Delia Giles

Delia says: Good morning church, and guests.

Welcome to Concord.

My name is Delia Giles, I am privileged to serve Concord as financial secretary for the church and our Mother’s DAY Out Ministry.

I have been a covenant member here for _____ years now.

I love my Group on Sunday mornings, I’m excited about starting the D-Group that I will be apart of this week, and I just love the opportunity to volunteer in Concord KIDS.

I love our this church and how our vision and mission are helping us grow together in walking with the Lord and reaching others and helping them follow Jesus.

This is our Mission here at Concord: We exist to connect people through loving community as we introduce them to Jesus and help them follow Him.