Reflect (October 30, 2016)

Welcome to the Sunday Gathering recap (songs, hymns, liturgy and sermon). This blog gives you an opportunity to reflect on what you heard in the gathering or catch up if you weren’t able to be with us.

*The indented sections are responses read aloud by the congregation during the Gathering

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REDEEMER VISION - Worshippers

CALL TO WORSHIP

I will praise the Lord at all times. I will constantly speak his praises. I will boast only in the Lord; let all who are helpless take heart. Come, let us tell of the Lord’s greatness; let us exalt his name together.

I prayed to the Lord, and he answered me. He freed me from all my fears. Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy; no shadow of shame will darken their faces. 

Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him!

(Psalm 34:1-8)

Song: Behold our God

Song: In Tenderness He Sought Me 

CONFESSION AND ASSURANCE

Even though we've experienced God's saving power in our lives we still choose to love other things before Him. We exchange the glory of God for worldly things. We orientate our lives around possessions, status, security. We love ourselves instead of God and centre lives on our pleasures and reputation. God tells us in his word that we've exchanged the truth about God for a lie, we've worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator. We love so many other things before God, the one who has given us everything.

Take a moment to reflect on that, to reflect on what you love and what you centre your life on. To confess your sin before God and seek his forgiveness.

Whilst we were still sinners, Jesus died for us, he took the wrath of God upon him for our sin, for our rebellion and yet we can now know freedom and salvation because of him.

Song: Grace Alone

PASSING OF THE PEACE

PREACHING OF THE WORD

Gary Aston took us to Matthew 22:34-40 to help us think through what it looks like to live out the Gospel rhythm of worship in all of life. Click here to listen to that sermon.

COMMUNION

Every week we want to respond to what God has done for us in Jesus. One of the great ways he has provided for us to remember the truth of the gospel is giving us communion. As we take the bread and wine we remember what Jesus has done for us.

POST COMMUNION READING

Jesus’ death brings us life and this meal reminds us that we are fed by Jesus and forgiven because of Jesus.

We rejoice that You have died, rose again, and are now with the Father advocating for us. Amen.

With our money, time, and talent we give generously, knowing that through Your Son, Jesus, You have generously given to us.

We rejoice that You have given everything and we joyfully give everything back to Your care. Amen.

Song: Nothing but the Blood

Song: Jesus Paid it All 

COMMITMENT READING

Every week at Redeemer we have a time of commitment, it's a way for us to respond to God's word preached to us with a commitment to live out the invitation of the gospel. It's a sending into the world, a declaration, a commitment to deeper faith, a call to mission with Jesus. A time to be reminded of and re-state our faith in Jesus. So hear these words to us now as we prepare to go:

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:1-2)

Song: It is Well

BENEDICTION

May you grow in the grace and knowledge and love of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Peace be with you.

And also with you. 

Amen.

Prepare (October 30, 2016)

This blog gives you a glimpse into the upcoming Sunday Gathering. It's an opportunity to read through the passage we'll be studying together, pray through some of the liturgy we'll be using, and listen to a selection of the songs we’ll be singing.

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REDEEMER VISION - Worshippers

SERMON

Gary Aston will be preaching to us from Matthew 22:34-40, helping us think through how the Gospel calls us to live out our lives as worshippers. 

LITURGY

COMMITMENT READING

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:1-2)

MUSIC

• Behold our God (Sovereign Grace): A song declaring the beauty and glory of God, calling us to look and behold Him. 

• Grace Alone (Dustin Kensrue): A glorious reminder that we aren't saved by our works or efforts but by the grace shown to us in Jesus' death and resurrection. 

Reflect (October 23, 2016)

Welcome to the Sunday Gathering recap (songs, hymns, liturgy and sermon). This blog gives you an opportunity to reflect on what you heard in the gathering or catch up if you weren’t able to be with us.

*The indented sections are responses read aloud by the congregation during the Gathering

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REDEEMER VISION - The Gospel

CALL TO WORSHIP

Blessed be the Lord! For he has heard the voice of our pleas for mercy.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in Him my heart trusts, and I am helped.

Our hearts exult the Lord and with our song we give thanks to Him.

The Lord is the strength of His people; he is our saving refuge! Praise be to God!

Based on Psalm 28:8

Song: Rock of Ages 

Song: Rejoice

CONFESSION AND ASSURANCE

God has lavishly poured his grace onto us in Christ. He is the giver of all good gifts. Yet so often we worship the gifts he has given us, rather than Him. We boast in them and neglect to give glory to the one who has given us everything. Take a moment to confess to God now, your tendency to forget him, to worship his gifts rather than him.

Hear this glorious reminder to us now:

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:8-10)

Song: Saviour of the World

PASSING OF THE PEACE

PREACHING OF THE WORD

We started our Redeemer Vision sermon series this week and Gary Aston preached to us from 1 Corinthians 1:18-31. He reminded us from the passage that our boast should only ever be in Jesus Christ and him crucified. Click here to listen to that sermon.

COMMUNION

Every week we want to respond to what God has done for us in Jesus. One of the great ways he has provided for us to remember the truth of the gospel is giving us communion. As we take the bread and wine we remember what Jesus has done for us.

POST COMMUNION READING

Jesus’ death brings us life and this meal reminds us that we are fed by Jesus and forgiven because of Jesus.

We rejoice that You have died, rose again, and are now with the Father advocating for us. Amen.

With our money, time, and talent we give generously, knowing that through Your Son, Jesus, You have generously given to us.

We rejoice that You have given everything and we joyfully give everything back to Your care. Amen.

Song: How Deep the Father's Love for Us

Song: Hallelujah What a Saviour 

COMMITMENT READING

Father God, we pray that by your Spirit you would help us to be a church always
centered around the Gospel. Help us to only preach Christ and Him crucified.

Protect us from disunity and grumbling that we would always strive to build one
another up and challenge one another in the Gospel. May our only boast be in
Jesus Christ and his finished work for us on the cross. Amen.

Song: Be Thou My Vision 

BENEDICTION

May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Peace be with you.

And also with you. 

Amen.

PRAY

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We want to do all we can to encourage you to pray. As we shared in the Redeemer 2020 vision, the primary thing we want to call you to is prayer. Without seeking God in prayer all of our plans are in vain. But prayer is hard and it is easy to get discouraged. In my experience, one of the easiest ways to get discouraged in prayer is to think it relies on our ability. But prayer is not primarily about us. It’s not about the greatness of our ability; the eloquence of our words; even the level of our faithfulness. Prayer is about the power of God.

There’s a part in Ephesians where Paul is talking about prayer. After he has told them some of the ways he is praying he reminds them of who they are praying to:

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us. (Ephesians 3:20)

Paul tells us that it isn’t just that God is capable of doing more than we can ask- that would be an amazing thing in and of itself. But no, he says God is capable of doing even more than we could imagine. So your loftiest thought, your most outrageous expectation, the things that you never dare mention to anyone because they sound too much, Paul says God is capable of outstripping all of those. And, as if to reassure us, Paul says his power is already at work in us. His Holy Spirit has already brought us from spiritual death to spiritual life, opening our eyes to the truth of the gospel. The same power of God is now at work in the church, working to bring about his plans and purposes.That’s why we read that verse together at our prayer and planning nights.

So when we pray it’s not about our ability, what we are capable of. No, we have confidence in prayer because God is faithful, because God is powerful, because he is the one who has all that we require and knows all that we need. So please use the prayer cards to pray regularly for the 2020 vision. Download the wallpapers so you are reminded to pray. Do whatever you can to pray that God would allow us to grow, plant & impact to see the city and beyond transformed by Jesus.

‘Thou art coming to a King,

Large petitions with thee bring;

For His grace and power are such,

None can ever ask too much’ 

-John Newton

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