Morning Worship Sample Liturgy

**Songs and Readings change from week to week.

Welcome to Grace United Reformed Church.

We believe that worship is a meeting with God for covenant renewal in Christ. Let us do so with reverence and awe, for we are called “to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the judge of all, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant” (Hebrews 12:22-24).

Welcome

Opening Song: Not unto Us, Lord of Heaven, 115A (1, 4, 5)

Silent Prayer

✥God Calls Us to Worship 

✥Gloria Patri, 572

✥God Greets Us

✥Congregation: Amen!

✥Minister: Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.

✥Congregation: This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it. 

✥Minister: I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation.

✥Congregation: This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118)

✥The Glorious Gates of Righteousness, 118B (1-4, 8)

God Speaks His Law

Congregation: Gracious Father, our sins are too heavy to carry. The wrongs we have committed are too real to hide. The pain that we have caused others is too deep to undo. Forgive what our lips tremble to name and what our hearts can no longer bear. We confess that we have turned from your law of perfect liberty to live in our sinful desires. To our shame we have been forgetful hearers rather than faithful doers. 

Silent Confession of Personal Sin

Minister: Hear us, O Lord, may your Holy Spirit set us free….

God Assures Us of Pardon 

My Heart Is Not Exalted, 131A

God Calls Us Life in Christ 

Congregational Prayer - followed by the Lord’s Prayer

✥All Glory Be to God, 235

✥The Reading of God’s Word

✥Prayer for Illumination

The Preaching of God’s Word

✥Day by Day, 255

✥Confession of Faith: Apostles’ Creed, Pg. 851

The Lord’s Supper*

Offering

✥Doxology: Praise God, from Whom All Blessing Flow, 568

✥Benediction