Lifespring Church—Sunday, October 20, 2019

The Gospel according to John: Hear, Believe and Live

John 10:19-30 The Works and Words of the Shepherd (ESV 1065)

Announcements:

Call to Worship: Hebrews 4:11-16 (p 370)

 

Adoration

• We Come, O Christ, to You (p 111)
• Immortal, Invisible (p 36)

 

Scripture Reading: Romans 8:31-39 (ESV 1123)

• Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners (p 206)

 

New City Catechism and Fighter Verse:

Week 42: How is the Word of God to be read and heard? With diligence, preparation, and prayer; so that we may accept it with faith, store it in our hearts, and practice it in our lives.

 

Scripture Memory: Proverbs 3:25-26 Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught

Prayer: Praises and Requests: 

 

Proclamation from God’s Word: John 10:19-30 The Works and Words of the Shepherd (ESV 1065)   

 

Communion: Question 80: How does the Lord’s Supper remind you and assure you that you share in Christ’s one sacrifice on the cross and in all his gifts? Answer: In this way: Christ has commanded me and all believers to eat this broken bread and to drink this cup. With this command he gave this promise: First, as surely as I see with my eyes the bread of the Lord broken for me and the cup given to me, so surely his body was offered and broken for me and his blood poured out for me on the cross. Second, as surely as I receive from the hand of the one who serves, and taste with my mouth the bread and cup of the Lord, given me as sure signs of Christ’s body and blood, so surely he nourishes and refreshes my soul for eternal life with his crucified body and poured-out blood.

 

Question 85: How does the Lord’s Supper differ from the Roman Catholic Mass? Answer: The Lord’s Supper declares to us that our sins have been completely forgiven through the one sacrifice of Jesus Christ which he himself finished on the cross once for all. (a) It also declares to us that the Holy Spirit grafts us into Christ, (b) who with his very body is now in heaven at the right hand of the Father (c) where he wants us to worship him. (d) But the Mass teaches that the living and the dead do not have their sins forgiven through the suffering of Christ unless Christ is still offered for them daily by the priests. It also teaches that Christ is bodily present in the form of bread and wine where Christ is therefore to be worshiped. Thus the Mass is basically nothing but a denial of the one sacrifice and suffering of Jesus Christ and a condemnable idolatry

*The Communion Hymn (p 343)

*To God Be the Glory (p 19)

 

Thanksgiving (Tithes and offerings)

 

Communion Benediction: Doxology (p 440)