Worship Guide

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Sola Scriptura: Scripture alone

The Anthem of the Day

ECBC CHOIR

Sola Gratia: Grace alone

PR O C L A M A T I O N

Soli Deo Gloria: Glory to God alone These phrases carry such weight because they keep us from our sinful tendency to base our justification The before God on something other than what God has done for us in Christ and revealed to us in his Word.

Our justification before God is by faith alone. God declares us righteous in his eyes not because he sees righteousness in us but because we fully rest and trust in the work of Christ on the cross to pay for our sins and because we receive his perfect righteousness as a gift. We are justified by grace alone, through God’s kind, gracious, and free initiative. He gives us what we don’t deserve and could never earn: forgiveness, transformation into Christ’s image, and adoption into his family. All of this is accomplished for God’s glory alone. For eternity, praises will redound to the God whose wisdom, power, and love ordained that he would have a people from every tribe, language, and nation to share in his Triune joy forever. O God Beyond All Praising We Worship You Today!

And Can It Be?

And though this world, with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us: The Prince of Darkness grim, We tremble not for him; His rage we can endure, For lo! his doom is sure, One little word shall fell him.

Sola Fide: Faith alone

The basis of our forgiveness before God is Christ alone, not saints, Mary, angels, or any other being. In his substitutionary sacrifice on the cross Jesus completely bore God’s righteous wrath against us. His payment was full, final, and effective.

The Gospel Hymn

A Mighty Fortress Verse 3

Solus Christus: Christ alone

Our final authority is Scripture alone, not amended or added to by tradition, opinion, or church councils.

Hallelujah, What A Savior!

Isaiah 6:8a

And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”

Affirmation of Faith Based on the Solas of the Reformation LEADER: Let us proclaim the Gospel together:

CONGREGATION: I believe that the Bible is God’s true Word, the only fully inspired and authoritative source for Christian life and doctrine. God—in the persons of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—is revealed to us in its pages. I believe that my salvation comes through faith alone in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and that my salvation is a gift of grace alone. Salvation is completely unmerited by any action that I have taken or ever will take, no matter how well intentioned. I believe that Christ is the only mediator between God and myself; therefore, I require no priest to communicate with God for me, but may approach Him through prayer in the name of Jesus, my Savior. I believe that Christ’s atoning death for my sins on the cross and His subsequent resurrection bring everlasting glory to God. These things I believe and hold dear.

The Singing of The Gospel



And Can It Be

We welcome our guest and friend, Noel Tredinnick, Director of Worship Arts at All Soul’s Church, London, to lead our Gospel Hymn that he arranged and orchestrated. This Hymn Printed on Back Page

The Offertory Prayer The Offertory A Mighty Fortress • ECBC Orchestra The Congregational Greetings

The Morning Sermon Conrad “Buster” Brown, Senior Pastor

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DEDICATION Isaiah 6:8b

Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”

The Pastoral Prayer The Benediction

The Apostles’ Creed

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hades. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty, from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy *catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen. * universal church

A Mighty Fortress Verse 4 That word above all earthly powers, No thanks to them, abideth; The Spirit and the gifts are ours Through Him who with us sideth: Let goods and kindred go, This mortal life also; The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever.

The Benediction and Blessing The Postlude

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WORSHIPGUIDE

THE SOLAS OF THE REFORMATION



REVELATION

THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION

The Church in Corporate Worship Please use the following prayer to prepare your hearts for worship:

Reformation Sunday and The Worship of our All Glorious God Based on John Calvin’s 1542 Geneva Order of Worship from Isaiah 6, and built around “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” the Hymn of the Reformation.

Reformation Sunday This day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door at the church at Wittenburg.

As we celebrate the truths of Scripture on this Reformation Sunday, we join our hearts and voices together, proclaiming the Gospel in joyous praise for all Christ has done for us -- that He alone could do.

The Lord used this to further spread the truth of God’s Word into the world and revolutionize the landscape of Christianity. This day, Let us rejoice for people of faith such as Luther who are obedient to God and make themselves vulnerable to men to preach the Grace and Justification of Christ against a culture or religion that takes Him for granted or subjugates Him to the whims of the imagination and tradition.

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Let the structured order of today’s service, and the unique acts of worship lead you into the praise of our all glorious God.

REFLECTION

THOUGHTS FOR WORSHIP PREPARATION

The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof Grace— bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly.

May we too make a stand for the truth of The Gospel.

The word of the Gospel—after all those centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your bootstraps—suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home before they started.

Stand up and bless the Lord, All people of His choice! Stand up and bless the Lord your God, with heart, and soul, and voice!



It has been roughly five hundred years since the Reformation. And looking at the church today (reading comments, blogs, tweets, books, and listening to objections and sermons) it is obvious that we are overdue for another one. Indeed, what a terrible irony it is that the very pack of people that God has unconditionally saved and continues to sustain by His free grace are the same ones who push back most violently against it: “Yes grace, but...”, “stop peddling cheap grace”, “God’s agape is not sloppy.”



Far too many professing Christians sound like ungrateful children who can’t stop biting the hand that feeds them.



It is high time for the church to honor its Founder by embracing sola gratia anew, to reignite the beacon of hope for the hopeless and point all of us bedraggled performancists back to the freedom and rest of the Cross. To leave our ifs, ands, or buts behind and get back to proclaiming the only message that matters—and the only message we have—the Word about God’s one- way love for sinners.



It is time for us to abandon, once and for all, our play-it- safe religion and get drunk on grace. Two-hundred-proof, unflinching grace. It’s shocking and scary, unnatural and undomesticated, but it is also the only thing that can set us free and light the church—and the world—on fire.

-- Tullian Tchividjian

The Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century was a tremendous movement of spiritual and ecclesiastical renewal which called the church back to its Biblical and evangelical roots.

Isaiah 6:1-2

In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

The Prelude A Mighty Fortress Verse 1 A mighty Fortress is our God, A Bulwark never failing; Our Helper He amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe Doth seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, And, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal.

It was begun by the obedience of men willing to respond to God and stand up for Truth. Worship in the Reformation was marked by a return to hearty congregational hymn singing and services saturated with the Word of God. As heirs of this great tradition, we own afresh the principles for which our forbearers in the faith struggled, and by which they lived and died:

The Call to Worship

Psalm of the Day - Psalm 100

LEADER: Let us proclaim the Word of God together:

CONGREGATION: Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

The Morning Hymn

Stand Up and Bless the Lord

From The Genevan Psalter, 1551

Sola Fide (Faith Alone) Sola Gratia (Grace Alone)

THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REFORMATION: A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD Written by Martin Luther in 1529, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” has been called “The Battle Hymn of the Reformation.”

Congregation: (sung) “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty;

All Thy works shall praise Thy name In earth and sky and sea! Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty! God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity!”

The Lined Psalm

Psalm 103, selected

Please repeat each phrase after leader

The Old Testament Reading of the Day The Hymn



Isaiah 12

Christ Triumphant Ever-Reigning

It speaks of the sovereignty of God in the affairs of the world and all mankind. Psalm 46 was the inspiration to this tremendous text: “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.” Let this reality come alive in your hearts in a fresh new way as we sing this hymn with power and gusto!

Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone) Solus Christus (Christ Alone) Soli Deo Gloria (To God’s Gory Alone)

* BULWARK noun 1. a solid wall-like structure raised for defense: RAMPART b. BREAKWATER, SEAWALL;

These principles are not merely of historical interest. They summon us to repentance and renewal today, and to build a church based on the foundation of Holy Scripture.

2. a strong support or protection.

ADORATION Isaiah 6:3-4

And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

The Doxology



Old 100th

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host; Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.

The Great Prayer of Thanksgiving





Leader: The Lord be with you. Congregation: And also with you. Leader: Lift up your hearts. Congregation: We lift them up the Lord. Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. Congregation: It is right for us to give thanks and praise... Leader: Therefore we praise you, joining our voices with choirs of angels and with all the faithful of every time and place, who forever sing to the glory of your name:

** SABAOTH Hebrew term used in the New Testament (Romans 9:29; James 5:4) and in Christian hymns (e.g., Sanctus and Te Deum) in the title of God, translated in the Bible as “Lord of Hosts” (Isaiah 1:9).

A Mighty Fortress Verse 2 Did we in our own strength confide, Our striving would be losing; Were not the right Man on our side, The Man of God’s own choosing: Dost ask who that may be? Christ Jesus, it is He; Lord Sabaoth His Name, From age to age the same, And He must win the battle.

CO N F E S S I O N A N D FORGIVENESS Isaiah 6:5-7

And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!” Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”

The Congregational Prayer Time The Silent Prayers The Spoken Prayer The Lord’s Prayer The Assurance of Forgiveness