Thelogical Thoughts: How many people want to get healthy before they see a doctor or fix things before they take the next steps in their lives. God, and indeed church, has no prerequisite for perfection before walking in the door.
Call to Worship
Who is our God, the God of the Jews or the God of the Gentiles?
Yes to both. Our God is one, so our faith is one.
But we do not all believe the same thing, as I look out upon the congregation I know that I do not believe the same thing as my neighbor. so how can we know we belong to God?
But God says, love the neighbor. Faith is the interweaving of many beliefs, have faith and know that God loves you.
Come let us boast of the Lord who is God.
Let us worship our Lord and God knowing we have received reconciliation.
Opening Prayer/Collect: Lord, gather our hearts together, honoring the diversity of our beliefs and weaving them into one faith. Teach us your peace by reminding us that God’s love has been poured out to us all. Help us to boast in the hope of the glory of God we pray. Amen.
Prayer of Confession: How can we approach you God? We confess that we are imperfect. How can we become a group of righteous people? We do not always think of you first, or at all. We forget to consider others, we worry about how things look instead of how they really are. We complain and complain about our suffering. Yet you remind us that we are justified not by our perfection, but by faith. Help us to persevere so we might experience hope we pray.
Reconciliation is the work of God’s peace entering into our lives, and God will never give up. Come and know the truth: In Jesus Christ we are forgiven.
Exegetical
2744 kauxáomai – properly, living with “head up high,” i.e. boasting from a particular vantage point by having the right base of operation to deal successfully with a matter (see WP at 2 Cor 5:12).
[2744 (kauxáomai) likely comes from the root, auχēn(“neck”), i.e. what holds the head up high (upright); figuratively, it refers to living with God-given confidence.
One definition of God coming to earth is that God “Stooped” to be with us. https://biblehub.com/greek/2744.htm
gush forth, pour out, shed, spill.
Or (by variation) ekchuno ek-khoo’-no from ek and cheo (to pour); to pour forth; figuratively, to bestow — gush (pour) o ut, run greedily (out), shed (abroad, forth), spill. https://biblehub.com/greek/1632.htm
Hymns
Amazing Grace
I’ve Got Peace Like a River
Live Into Hope
Blessed Assurance Jesus is Mine
Children’s
Deep and Wide
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