Welcome to Sojourn’s weekly worship music set list review & service recap for this second Sunday of Advent. You’ll not only read a list of the songs we led, but also the readings and prayers from our liturgy. You can also watch the video stream of the whole service from our Facebook page, or here below.
Our liturgy is written by worship director Justin Shaffer in collaboration with worship directors at other Sojourn churches.
This Sunday Pastor Bobby Gilles preached on The Lord’s Prayer. His text was Matthew 6:7-13 in our series from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7, The Good Life: Living The More You Were Made For. To learn more about Sojourn Church, click here.
Get Down on Your Knees and Pray written by Bill Monroe.
CALL TO WORSHIP
Spoken
1 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving
and extol him with music and song.
3 For the Lord is the great God,
the great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to him.
5 The sea is his, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.
6 Come, let us bow down in worship,
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;
7 for he is our God
and we are the people of his pasture,
the flock under his care. -Psalm 95:1-7 NIV
Spoken
At Your Name written by Phil Wickham and Tim Hughes.
PRAYER
Pray this with me:
Praise be to you, O God the Father:
You created all things by your power and wisdom
and so loved the world that you gave your Son to be our Savior.
Praise be to you, O God the Son:
You became human like us in all things, but lived without sin,
died for our offenses, and rose again for our justification.
Praise be to you, O God the Holy Spirit:
You lead us into all truth and spread the love of God in our hearts
Holy God, we often mold you into something less than you are and doubt your love and power in our lives.
Forgive us Lord. Help us to see you and to know you more fully.
Fill us with the vision of your glory, that we may always serve and praise you. Amen
Blessed Be Your Name written by Matt Redman.
ASSURANCE & GIVING
Hear this assurance from the Gospel of John.
But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12 NLT)
God sent Christ into the world that he might restore us to himself to live with him. When we believe in Jesus Christ and what he has done for us… responding in faith to this beautiful invitation – we become a part of God’s family… we become God’s children, and he promises to never leave us or forsake us. Hallelujah!
This means we are safe – safe to live in the presence of a Holy God, safe to confess our sin and share in suffering without the fear of being rejected… safe to carry the gospel in the face of hostility, and ultimately safe with him forevermore.
Among other things, this also frees us from the tight grip we have on our pocketbooks – greed causes us to be selfish with God’s stuff, but fear also causes us to cling to the false sense of security that our money brings rather than clinging to God. As we prepare our tithes and offerings and the giving baskets are passed around, let us abide in him, in his provision, knowing that Christ’s passionate sacrifice is the source of REAL and lasting power and security.
Good Good Father written by Pat Barrett and Tony Brown.
PASSING OF THE PEACE
Let’s greet one another in the grace and peace that is now ours in Christ!
[Sermon – The Lord’s Prayer, Matthew 6:7-13]
[Communion]
How Deep the Father’s Love For Us (written by Stuart Townend)/Oh to Be Loved by Jesus (written by Thad Cockrell).
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Great Are You Lord written by Leslie Jordan, Jason Ingram, David Leonard.
BENEDICTION
Recite the Lord’s Prayer