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A Fresh start
Priorities!
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Call to worship
!!!!!! Bible Verse
To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power for ever and ever!
Amen.
(Revelation 1:5-6)
!!!!!! Blessing
Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, \\ and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
(Revelation 1:4-5)
!!! Hymn 21:                      /“Now thank we all our God” (The Hymnal, 28)/
!!! Announcements
!!! Invocation
God our Father, who by your Son Jesus Christ teach men the everlasting way, grant us as we turn to You in worship and prayer that we may be taught by your Holy Spirit to our spiritual nourishment and growth in grace.
Father, we pray that You will enlighten our minds that we may find in the sacred Scripture guidance for our way of life.
Grant that our prayers, our answering voice in singing and our response to the Gospel call will bring glory and honour to your most holy Name.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
We now unite in praying:
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The Lord’s Prayer
!!! Children’s Address
!!! Hymn No 615:                            /“This is my Father’s world” (The Hymnal)/
!!! Scripture Reading                     /Philippians 1:3-11/
!!! Prayer of Adoration and Confession
Gracious heavenly Father, we are your redeemed people and, as we gather in your presence, how we rejoice in you.
We rejoice in the majesty of your character, the sheer perfection of your being.
You are the only wise God, the one true and living God, the Almighty, the all-knowing one, the ever present one, the triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We rejoice in the perfection of who you are.
And we rejoice in the works of your hands, in the wonders you have done: the splendour of your creation, the generosity of your providential care, the sheer grace of redemption, the mystery of your purposes in election, the infinite wonder of your everlasting love, the gift of your Word, the power of your Gospel, the sanctifying work of your Holy Spirit, the blessings of your Church, the glories of Heaven and the wonders you have prepared for us there.
When we consider the wonder of who you are and all that you have done for us in Christ, we rejoice with trembling.
We stand in awe of you.
We realize something of the greatness and grandeur of who you are, the high and holy God who inhabits eternity.
We also realise the finite, weak, limited, sinful condition of ourselves by comparison.
But we rejoice in the fact that despite the vast gulf between us, you nevertheless delight to dwell with those who are humble and contrite in heart and who tremble at your Word.
We rejoice that you have appointed Christ to bridge the gap between us, and that he has reconciled us to you through the cross.
We rejoice that with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared.
We come before you this day, yielded and still in the presence of you, our Lord and Master.
Continue and bring to completion the good work you have begun in us.
Humble us in our pride.
Condemn in us any wrong.
Wash us with water through the Word to make us holy and send us to our homes rejoicing that we have met with you, the Sovereign Lord, in Jesus’ name.
O God, with David we approach your throne of grace and we say: You know my foolishness, and my guilt is not hidden from You.
On account of the righteousness of Jesus Christ we pray that those who hope in You not be ashamed because of me and my sins, O Lord God of hosts; may those who seek You not be dishonoured because of me, O God of Israel.
(Psalm 69:5–6)
O Lord, be gracious to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.
(Psalm 41:4).
Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.
(Jeremiah 17:14)
!!! Declaration of pardoning
I will cleanse them from all the sin they have committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against me.
(Jeremiah 33:8)
!!! Hymn:                            /“Approach my soul the mercy seat” (The Hymnal, 408)/
!!! Offering and Dedication
Sovereign Lord, the earth is yours and everything in it.
You own the cattle on a thousand hills; all the trees of the forest are yours and yet you love a cheerful giver.
Lord, we gladly give you what is your own, in acknowledgement of the fact that all we have and are comes to us as a gracious gift from you.
You have granted us health and strength and skills to be able to work and earn an income, to create wealth, in grateful thanks of which we bring these your tithes and our gifts, the first fruits of all our labours, praying that you will bless both the gift and the giver.
Grant wisdom to those entrusted with the management of these funds, that they will be well used for the advancement of your Gospel and kingdom both here and even to the ends of the earth, in Jesus’ name, Amen.
We now all sing:
!!! Doxology :                    /“Praise God from whom all blessings flow”/
!!! Prayer for others
Our Father, may the world not mould us today, but may we be so strong as to help to mould the world.
We pray and beseech You, Father, to guide your church with your perpetual governance that it may walk circumspectly in times of quite and boldly in times of trouble.
Lord of the harvest, we pray that You may send labourers into your harvest – especially here in our denomination in North Queensland.
Father, by your Holy Spirit stir the hearts of many that they may be ready to spend and be spent in your service; and if it pleases you, that they may lose their life in this world in order to gather fruit into eternal life.
We pray for our world.
Grant that all idolatry and superstition be put away, that the whole world may so be enlightened with your holy Word that people will give themselves to the praising of your holy Name.
Open up more and more the knowledge of salvation in Jesus Christ, that in all places of the earth, your truth and power may be known and that all nations will bow the knee to Jesus Christ.
Your have called rulers to the defence of your Word.
It is their duty to promote the spiritual welfare, together with the temporal interest of their people.
We pray for our sovereign, the Queen.
Give her all those heavenly graces that are indispensable for so high a trust.
We also pray for our rulers:  the Prime Minister and his cabinet; the Opposition and all other leaders in different spheres of government.
And as we now prepare to elect leaders, help us to do so in dependence upon and with responsibility to You.
We also pray, Father, that You will pour out your blessings upon the missionaries of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; that they be clothed with righteousness, and that their words spoken by them may have such success that it may never spoken in vain.
We think of Ron and Jean Lyons working in Cape York.
We remember Dr Peter Hammond and the work of Frontline Fellowship.
We bring before you Jeanette Clewitt who now is preparing herself for a life of service in your kingdom.
We pray for the work of Scripture Union, the Religious Education in Schools, our Sunday school and its children and the work of chaplains at universities and colleges.
We pray for the homeless, bereaved and sorrowful.
Please give them comfort.
Have mercy on all those who have none to pray for them and none to provide for them.
Have mercy on those who have brought punishment upon themselves and those who minister to them in prisons.
Father, give us godly zeal in prayer, true humility in prosperity, perfect patience in adversity and continual joy in the Holy Spirit.
We pray this for the sake of and in the Name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour.
Amen.
!!! Scripture Reading                     /Ezra 3:1-13/          
!!! Prayer
Gracious God, send forth your Holy Spirit to till the soil of human hearts, there to sow the seed of your Word in prepared ground.
May your Word, believed and received into glad and obedient hearts, take root, spring up and bear fruit to eternal life, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.
!!! Sermon                          /A Fresh start – what are the priorities for a church?/
!!!!!! Introduction
My dear brother and sister in the Lord,
Let’s for one moment pretend we have to start fresh with a new congregation.
We have no buildings, no PWA, no Sunday school, no Biblestudies, no money, no hymn books – nothing.
Only the Bible and people.
What is it that you would like to see in this new church?
What are the mistakes of the past?
What is it that you would like to avoid to implement in the new church?
In short, “What is your ideal church?”
Let’s name a few things that you wouldn’t want in your new church?
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