Bayshore Gardens Community Church Believing, Again Gaining Hope Caring Relationships Christ Jesus

THE WHITE ATTENDANCE PAD so that we may celebrate your WE INVITE YOU TO SIGN THE WHITE ATTENDANCE PAD so that we may celebrate your presence with us today! Please pass it on to the next person and then back down the row

and Read the Announcements for fellowship and service Please Take Your Bulletins Home With You and Read the Announcements We invite you to take advantage of the Opportunities for fellowship and service

Upcoming Potlucks ! Saturday January 7th Honoring Pastor Dan Saturday February 4th BGCC Anniversary Dinner

Choir Rehearsal Thursdays at 5:00 PM in the choir room.

Consistory Meeting Tuesday Jan. 10 7:00 PM

To all who are spiritually weary and seek rest; to all who mourn and long for comfort; to all who struggle and desire victory; to all who sin and need a Savior;

to all who are strangers and want fellowship; to all who hunger and thirst after righteousness; and to all who will come, this church opens wide her doors and offers welcome in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Bayshore Gardens Community Church Believing, Again Gaining Hope Caring Relationships Christ Jesus

[ Pastor / CONGREGATION ] THE CALL TO WORSHIP [ Pastor / CONGREGATION ]

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims His The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims His handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tent for the sun.

‘JOY TO THE WORLD’ #270

Joy to the world! The Lord is come; Let earth receive her King. (1) Joy to the world! The Lord is come; Let earth receive her King. Let every heart, prepare Him room, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven, and heaven and nature sing.

Joy to the world! The Savior reigns; Let men their songs employ; (2) Joy to the world! The Savior reigns; Let men their songs employ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat, Repeat the sounding joy.

(3) No more let sin and sorrow grow, Nor thorns infest the ground. He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found, Far as, far as the curse is found.

(4) He rules the world with truth and grace, And makes the nations prove The glories of His righteousness And wonders of His love, And wonders, wonders of His love.

Congregational Prayer of Confession ALL: Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your steadfast love. My sin has been against You, although others have been hurt as well. It is against You that I have rebelled. It is against You that I have been angry and yet it is to You that I cry for mercy!

Even with my best intentions sin seems ever to creep in Even with my best intentions sin seems ever to creep in. Even with my firmest resolve I keep on sinning. Wash me, that I be clean, fresh, and new. Cleanse me, that I have integrity, that I do right from inside out.

Purge me, that I be pure with a strong purity Purge me, that I be pure with a strong purity. In the name of Christ deliver me, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of Your deliverance.

SILENT PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING AND CONFESSION

ASSURANCE OF PARDON (John 15.5, 8) Minister: I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in Me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be My disciples.

Chancel Choir “There Is Room in My Heart For Thee”

Message Rev. Dustin Sedlak

The Lord’s Prayer OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME. THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE, ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD, AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS; AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL. FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY FOREVER

As A Tangible Expression To Financially Support OUR OFFERING As A Tangible Expression Of Our Gratitude To God, We Joyfully Offer Our Monetary Gifts To Financially Support God's Work At Bayshore Gardens Community Church

Harriet Hoeksema, organ OFFERTORY MUSIC “We Are God’s People” Harriet Hoeksema, organ Pat Woods, piano

We Are God’s People hymn 399 contemplation

We are God’s people, the chosen of the Lord, Born of His Spirit, established by His Word. Our cornerstone is Christ alone, and strong in Him we stand; O let us live transparently, And walk heart to heart and hand in hand

We are God’s loved ones, the bride of Christ our Lord, For we have known it, the love of God out-poured. Now let us learn how to return the gift of love once given; O let us share each joy and care, And live with a zeal that pleases heaven.

We are the Body of which the Lord is Head, Called to obey Him, now risen from the dead. He wills us to be family, Diverse yet truly one; O let us give our gifts to God, And so shall His work on earth be done.

THE DOXOLOGY PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW; PRAISE HIM ALL CREATURES HERE BELOW; PRAISE HIM ABOVE YE HEAVENLY HOST; PRAISE FATHER, SON AND HOLY GHOST. AMEN

Holy Communion

WE THREE KINGS Hymn 288

We three Kings Of orient are Bearing gifts we traverse afar Field and fountain, Moor and mountain Following yonder star

O star of wonder Star of night Star with royal Beauty bright Westward leading Still proceeding Guide us to thy Perfect light

Born a king On Bethlehem’s plain Gold I bring To crown Him again King forever Ceasing never Over us all to reign

O star of wonder Star of night Star with royal Beauty bright Westward leading Still proceeding Guide us to thy Perfect light

Frankincense to offer have I Incense owns A Deity nigh Prayer and praising All men raising Worship Him God on high

O star of wonder Star of night Star with royal Beauty bright Westward leading Still proceeding Guide us to thy Perfect light

Myrrh is mine Its bitter perfume Breathes a life Of gathering gloom Sorrowing sighing Bleeding dying Sealed in The stone cold tomb

O star of wonder Star of night Star with royal Beauty bright Westward leading Still proceeding Guide us to thy Perfect light

Al-le-lu-ia, Al-le-lu-ia Glorious now Behold Him arise King and God And sacrifice Al-le-lu-ia, Al-le-lu-ia Earth to Heaven replies

O star of wonder Star of night Star with royal Beauty bright Westward leading Still proceeding Guide us to thy Perfect light

THE PASTORAL BENEDICTION Go forth from this place as God’s elect and covenant people . . . AMEN