1. Bayshore Gardens Community Church B elieving, Again G aining Hope C aring Relationships C hrist Jesus

2. WE EXTEND A WARM WELCOME TO MEMBERS, REGULAR ATTENDERS, and THOSE VISITING TODAY. If you are visiting with us, we welcome you to our church! You are no longer a stranger for you are with the people of God.

3. WE INVITE YOU TO SIGN THE 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

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

5. WEDNESDAY MORNING BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP HALL 9:30-10:00 AM - Snacks & Coffee Bible Study – 10:00 – 11:00 (Start on time – end on time) ADVANCE READING – GENESIS 44 & 45

6. Bayshore Gardens Community Church B elieving, Again G aining Hope C aring Relationships C hrist Jesus

7. THE CALL TO WORSHIP (Pastor / CONGREGATION) (1 John 3:1,12,16; 4:12,14; 5:1,2) How great is the love the Father has lavished upon us; SO THAT WE MAY BE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD. This is how we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us. THEREFORE, WE OUGHT TO GIVE OURSELVES TO OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

8. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God, AND EVERYONE WHO LOVES THE FATHER, LOVES HIS CHILDREN AS WELL. This is how we know that we love God’s children: BY LOVING AND CARRYING OUT GOD’S COMMANDS. No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, GOD LIVES IN US AND HIS LOVE IS MADE COMPLETE IN US.

9. **THE OPENING HYMN: #93 God Our Father, We Adore You. American English Translation 2002 Please use words on the screen [ All who are able please stand ]

10. (1) God, our Father, we adore You! We, Your children, bless Your name! Chosen in the Christ before You, we are holy without blame.; We adore You! We adore You! Hear the praises we proclaim! We adore You! Hear the praises we proclaim!

11. (2) Son Eternal, we adore You! Lamb upon the throne on high! Lamb of God, we bow before You, You have brought Your people nigh! We adore You! We adore You! Son of God, who came to die! We adore You! We adore You! Son of God, who came to die!

12. (3) Holy Spirit, we adore You! Comforter and heavenly guest! Sent from God and from the Savior, You have led us into rest. We adore You! We adore You! By Your grace forever blessed: We adore You! We adore You! By Your grace forever blessed!

13. (4) Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Three in One! We give You praise! For the riches we inherit, heart and voice to You we raise! We adore You! We adore You! You we thank, through endless days! We adore You! We adore You! You we thank, through endless days!

14. SILENT PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING AND CONFESSION THE ASSURANCE OF PARDON Romans 8:15 For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption as sons and daughters. And by Him we cry, “Abba Father.”

15. THE CHANCEL CHOIR “GOD IS SO GOOD” Donna Brown, Director Pat Woods, Accompanist

17. A TIME OF SHARING WITH GOD’S CHILDREN OF ALL AGES

18. THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURE Luke 15:11-32 Read by Roxanne VanDyke There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, “Father, give me my share of the estate.” So the father divided his property between his two sons. Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need.

19. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. When he came to his senses, he said, “How many of my father's hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.’” So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him;

20. He ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. The son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.” But the father said to his servants, “Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let's have a feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost but now he is found.” So they began to celebrate. Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.

21. So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. “Your brother has come home,” the servant replied, “and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.” The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. But he answered his father by saying, “Look! All these years I've been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!”

22. “My son,” the father said, “you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; He was lost but now he is found.”

23. LET’S JUST PRAISE THE LORD #18 Let’s just praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let’s just lift our hearts to heaven and praise the Lord. Let’s just praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let’s just lift our hearts to heaven and praise the Lord.

24. THE SERMON ABBA, FATHER Luke 15:11-32; Romans 8:15 The second in a sermon series on The Lord’s Prayer (Please see sermon outline) Bayshore Gardens Community Church Dr. Daniel Herlein

25. JEHOVAH YAHWEH YHWH יהוה (tetragammaton) FATHER ABBA “DADDY”

26. Then along came the radical and revolutionary Jesus, teaching His followers to pray to God in a NEW WAY, using a NEW NAME, a loving, warm, close [intimate] name, ‘Abba Father’

27. ‘The Parable of the Prodigal Son’ or better, contextually, ‘THE PARABLE OF THE LOVING FATHER’ and how he dealt with his two sons.

29. Perhaps the plight of the oldest son is more pathetic and pitiful than that of the younger son. The parable shows us a picture of one who really never got to know his loving father by his own choice.

30. God, our Abba-Father, will welcome us with the quiet assurance that we are His children and He is our heavenly Father.

31. The Pastoral Prayer and 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 AMEN.

32. 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

33. OFFERTORY MUSIC My Faith Has Found A Resting Place Pat Woods, Piano

34. 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

35. THE CLOSING HYMN #517 ‘ I WILL SING OF MY REDEEMER’

36. (1) I will sing of my Redeemer and His wondrous love to me On the cruel cross He suffered From the curse to set me free. Sing, O sing of my Redeemer, With His blood He purchased me On the cross He sealed my pardon, Paid the debt and made me free.

37. (2) I will tell the wondrous story How my lowly estate to save, In His boundless love and mercy He the ransom freely gave. Sing, O sing of my Redeemer, With His blood He purchased me On the cross He sealed my pardon, Paid the debt and made me free.

38. (3) I will praise my dear Redeemer; His triumphant power I’ll tell, How the victory He gives me, over sin and death from hell. Sing, O sing of my Redeemer, With His blood He purchased me On the cross He sealed my pardon, Paid the debt and made me free.

39. (4) I will sing of my Redeemer and His heavenly love for me; He from death to life has brought me, Son of God, with Him to be. Sing, O sing of my Redeemer, With His blood He purchased me On the cross He sealed my pardon, Paid the debt and made me free.

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