09/01/2006 - "E PLURIBUS UNUM: OUT OF MANY, ONE!"

Date: October 1, 2006
Theme: "E PLURIBUS UNUM: OUT OF MANY, ONE!"
Guest Speaker: Pastor Mark Bernthal

THE ORDER OF WORSHIP: See Bulletin

Liturgy: WS, p 12 ff

Hymns:
TLH 658: Onward, Christians Soldiers
TLH 496: Hark! The Voice of Jesus Crying
WS 769: Lift High the Cross
Distribution Hymns:TLH 314; 467; 477
TLH 505: O'er the Hills of Gloomy Hills of Darkness

Scripture Readings:
Romans 12:4-8
John 17:20-26

Sermon Theme:
"E PLURIBUS UNUM: OUT OF MANY, ONE! "
I: WE ARE MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE WITH MANY DIFFERENT GIFTS, YET WE ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST.
II: AS MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE WITH MANY DIFFERENT GIFTS WE WORK FOR ONE PURPOSE BUILDING UP THE BODY OF CHRIST.

Ephesians 4:7-16
(7) But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift. (8) Therefore He says: "When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men." (9) (Now this, "He ascended"; what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? (10) He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) (11) And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, (12) for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, (13) till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; (14) that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, (15) but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head; Christ; (16) from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. (NKJVTM)