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Host Time and Welcome || student pastor: Stephen Ellison

Worship team in place before Stephen takes the stage.

10:28am Music begins promptly at 10:30

Sound team turns off

Good Morning Church!

Covenant Members, would you join me in welcoming all of our first time and returning guests?

(applause) So good to see all of you and to be here.

I hope you have been made to feel welcome today.

This church is about walking out this life together in the RADICAL GRACE of JESUS CHRIST.

It’s our heart that here a Concord, that you are made to feel “Know, Loved, and that you Belong.”

Scripture tells us:‌​

ESV but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

That means you don’t have to get it all figured out before you come.

You don’t have to put on a mask to be accepted here.

You come and we figure it out together…no matter where you are in your spiritual journey.

Whatever season you are in, we know the struggle of this sinful world…but we also know that our God is bigger than our circumstances.

covenant connection:

With that said, I hope you received a program this morning you’ll notice in that program there more info about who we are and what we offer as a church.

Now the insert is promoting some awesome things coming up like: this Wednesday nights—Concord U.

This is a Wednesday night group time offered in a college style atmosphere for our adults while we have gatherings for kids and students at the same time.

On that insert you can sign up for some various class options.

Next Sunday, May 6th, we are having a Special Called Family Meeting immediately following worship.

If you are a Covenant Member please make every effort to stay after service.

Bring a snack to hold you over, whatever you need to do to make it through.

We need you there!

guest connection:

(Go back to upbeat)— Also, for our Guests we want to connect with you!

You’ll notice inside the program along with the insert is a connect envelope.

Later on in our service we will worship through a time of offering together; both guest and member.

During our offering portion of worship we will give all of you a moment to fill out the connect envelopes, that also serve as a place you can give any money or financial gift that you would offer to the Lord.

During that time you will have an opportunity to be obedient and pray over your gift to the Lord as well.

Simply place the Lord’s gift in the envelope; fill out the connect info and during our offering worship, you can place both, the insert and the connect envelope in the offering plate as it passes.Regardless, we desire to connect with you and help you get plugged in.

—what’s coming up…insert announcements

Next Sunday June 3rd we have a special Sun.

Night Event - A Look to the Future- A Vision Casting Night for our Church at 5:30pm

Larry Hyche of the Alabama State Board of Missions will be guest speaking along with our lead pastor Joe Brantley as we look to the future of what God has called Concord to be in this community and beyond.

All Covenant Members who are serving in any type of leadership capacity are expected to attend (Deacons, Group leaders, Greeters…all means all).

All Covenant Members who are serving in any type of leadership capacity are

And we welcome any covenant member or anyone considering becoming a covenant member to attend.

VBS!!! Kick off & registration is Sunday afternoon June 10th

Sound Team fades out ipod track behind Stephen after announcements and welcome

Revelation || student pastor || Stephen Ellison

say this:

We believe that God has revealed Himself to us through the word of Scripture.

Let us read the Scriptures from starting in v. 18 (please read along with me)

Stephen: lead directly in to a time of Silent Confession--explain:

So because we know God reveals himself and forgives our sins by His grace through faith recieved in our belief in Jesus Christ, we know we can take anything to God in prayer.

We confess here that “It’s ok to not be ok, but it’s not ok to stay that way.”

So one of the ways that we flesh that out is by taking a moment to turn our sins over to Christ.

Because we believe the truth of Scripture that promises us, “If we confess our sins, He [God] is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us of all unrighteousness” ().

It’s within this promise we take our sins to Jesus.

So I want you to read this Scripture as I speak it over you and myself as a reminder; to evoke reflection, and confession.

Then after a moment of solitude in where we seek the face of Jesus and confess.

I will lead us in a Corporate of Confession of Faith

Read

Stephen reads the Scripture leading them into a moment of silent communion with God through confessing one’s sin

​Congregational Confession || The Apostle’s Creed

Congregational Confession || The Apostle’s Creed

Stephen leads in reciting the Apostle’s Creed: explain congregation will stand and read this together from the screen (word for word).

Stephen says: We do this as confession and proclamation that God has revealed Himself to us through the Gospel.

We are going to read this together from the screen, but before we do let me explain a couple of things:

The Apostle’s Creed is a proclamation of faith in what the Apostle’s taught and what we as a church believe to be the gospel.

A Creed doesn’t take the place of the Bible.

It merely proclaims the truth of it.

A finally, it refers to our belief “in the holy catholic church” (the word catholic is derived from the Greek adj.

katholikos, meaning "universal") so it has nothing to do with the Roman Catholic church, in our context and since the creed existed before the Roman Catholic Church did, and is based on the New Testament Church…you are not confessing to be Roman Catholic…you are are affirming that you believe in “the church univeral” built on the cornerstone of Jesus.

(now if you are here and you are on the fence or not even on the ranch…you don’t have to repeat this with us…you are in a safe place hear.

We join together and read this together, as the church, to celebrate this reality of God’s great love for us.

So let’s read the APOSTLE’S CREED together.

(now if you are here and you are on the fence or not even on the ranch…you don’t have to repeat this with us…you are in a safe place hear.

We join together and read this together, as the church, to celebrate this reality of God’s great love for us.

So let’s read the APOSTLE’S CREED together.

(now if you are here and you are on the fence or not even on the ranch…you don’t have to repeat this with us…you are in a safe place hear.

We join together and read this together, as the church, to celebrate this reality of God’s great love for us.

So let’s read the APOSTLE’S CREED together.

Hannah: copy and paste this into Propresenter.

Let’s break it up slide by slide as I have them grouped below.

I believe in God the Father Almighty; Maker of Heaven and Earth;

Maker of Heaven and Earth;

and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord;

who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary;

suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried;

the third day He rose 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 Ghost; the holy catholic Church;

the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins;

the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting.

Amen.

We confess here that “It’s ok to not be ok, but it’s not ok to stay that way.”

So one of the ways that we flesh that out is by taking a moment to turn our sins over to Christ.

Because we believe the truth of Scripture that promises us, “If we confess our sins, He [God] is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us of all unrighteousness” ().

It’s within this promise we take our sins to Jesus.

So I want you to read this Scripture as I speak it over you and myself as a reminder; to evoke reflection, and confession.

Then after a moment of solitude in where we seek the face of Jesus and confess.

I will lead us in a Corporate Prayer of Confession

Read

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Stephen exits the stage