Welcome to Sojourn’s weekly worship music set list review & service recap. 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 (you can also see a video of our sermon alone, from Vimeo).
Our liturgy is directed by Worship Director Justin Shaffer, in collaboration with our Creative Staff at Sojourn Church New Albany, our Liturgy writers, and worship staff at the other four Sojourn Collective churches in the Louisville area. This week’s liturgy was composed by Rebekah Carroll.
This Sunday Pastor Jonah Sage preached from Philippians 4:10-23 in our series Prison Poems: Citizens Of Joy In Circumstances Of Suffering. We begin with a short “countdown to the gathering” hosted by Deacon Lindsey Blair and Pastor Bobby Gilles. To learn more about Sojourn Church, click here.
August 2, 2020 – Jonah Sage – Power Of Joy from Sojourn Collective on Vimeo.
—Prelude: Instrumental
CALL TO WORSHIP: Liturgist
Themes: Contentment in the Lord, The secret to life, God’s love…
6-7 Why is everyone hungry for more? “More, more,” they say.
“More, more.”
I have God’s more-than-enough,
More joy in one ordinary day
7-8 Than they get in all their shopping sprees.
At day’s end I’m ready for sound sleep,
For you, God, have put my life back together.
-Psalm 4:6-8 The Message
In 1-2 Sentences: “”
—Song 2: “You Are the Living Word or a Hymn” Key, Leader
CONFESSION/LAMENT: Band Member
Hear the word of the Lord:
Complain if you must, but don’t lash out.
Keep your mouth shut, and let your heart do the talking.
Build your case before God and wait for his verdict.
-Psalm 4:4-5 The Message
So let’s do that now…
SILENT PRAYER
—Song 3: “Good, Good Father” Key, Leader
ASSURANCE & GIVING: Liturgist
Hear the story of your salvation, and of what is to come:
5 1-2 By entering through faith into what God has always wanted to do for us—set us right with him, make us fit for him—we have it all together with God because of our Master Jesus. And that’s not all: We throw open our doors to God and discover at the same moment that he has already thrown open his door to us. We find ourselves standing where we always hoped we might stand—out in the wide open spaces of God’s grace and glory, standing tall and shouting our praise.
3-5 There’s more to come: We continue to shout our praise even when we’re hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us, and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next. In alert expectancy such as this, we’re never left feeling shortchanged. Quite the contrary—we can’t round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit!
-Romans 5:1-5 The Message
So let’s worship him!
—Song 4: “Oh to be Loved by Jesus” Key, Leader
PASSING OF THE PEACE: Band Member
God’s transforming presence and love enables us to…
—————————————— [SERMON & COMMUNION] ——————————————-
—Song 5: “How He Loves” Key, Leader
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Reader
BENEDICTION: Liturgist
(May) Christ dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. [Go in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Peace be with you!] -Eph. 3:17-19
—Postlude: “To Make you Feel My Love” Key, Leader