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 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

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

5. We have openings for a Deacon and an Elder on our Consistory for terms beginning in January 2016. If you would be willing to serve in either of these positions, please contact one of the current Consistory members.

6. TIME CHANGE NEXT SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1

7. Please read the bulletin Insert entitled, “TODAY Is Reformation Sunday”

8. If you would like to read Scripture during a Sunday morning service, please call Pastor Dan at 941-755-3503

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

10. THE CALL TO WORSHIP [ Pastor / CONGREGATION ] Since we have been justified [that is, made right with God] by faith, WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, Through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. AND WE REJOICE IN THE HOPE OF THE GLORY OF GOD.

11. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT SUFFERING PRODUCES PERSEVERANCE; Perseverance produces character; AND CHARACTER PRODUCES HOPE; And hope does not disappoint us BECAUSE GOD HAS POURED OUT HIS LOVE INTO OUR HEARTS BY THE HOLY SPIRIT WHOM HE HAS GIVEN TO US.

12. THE OPENING HYMN #151 A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD Words and Music: Martin Luther 1579

13. (1) A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe; His craft and pow’r are great, and, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal.

14. (2) Did we in our own strength confide, Our striving would be losing, Were not the right Man on our side, The Man of God’s own choosing: Dost ask who that may be? Christ Jesus, it is He; Lord Sabaoth, His Name, From age to age the same, And He must win the battle.

15. (3) And though this world, with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us; The Prince of Darkness grim, We tremble not for him; His rage we can endure, for lo, his doom is sure, One little word shall fell him.

16. (4) That word above all earthly pow’rs, No thanks to them, abideth; The Spirit and the gifts are ours Through Him Who with us sideth; Let goods and kindred go, This mortal life also; The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His kingdom is forever.

17. SILENT PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING AND CONFESSION THE ASSURANCE OF PARDON Romans 1:17; Ephesians 2:8-9 In the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, as it is written: “The righteous, the just, will live by faith. For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is the gift of God so that no one can boast.”

18. ‘ALLELUIA’ Alleluia (8x) He’s My Savior (8x) He is worthy (8x) I will praise Him (8x) I will thank Him (8x) I will love him (8x) Alleluia (8x)

19. AFFIRMING OUR FAITH The Heidelberg Catechism Question #1 WHAT IS YOUR ONLY COMFORT, IN LIFE AND IN DEATH? Answer #1

20. That I belong, body and soul, in life and in death, not to myself, but to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ; Who at the cost of His own blood has fully paid for all my sins, and has completely freed me from the dominion of the devil;

21. That He protects me so well that, without the will of my Father in heaven, not a hair can fall from my head; indeed, that everything must fit His purpose for my salvation. Therefore, by His Holy Spirit, He also assures me of eternal life, and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on, to live for Him.

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

24. THE HEBREW SCRIPTURE: Habakkuk 2:1-4 Read by Elder Neil VanDerJagt, CPA I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what the Lord will say to me, and what answer I am to give. Then the Lord replied: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; It speaks of the end and will not prove false.

25. Even though the revelation lingers, wait for it; It will certainly come and will not delay in accordance with the Lord’s time. “See, the enemy of God is puffed up; The enemy’s desires are not upright—but the just, the person who is right with God, WILL LIVE BY FAITH. THE FIRST NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURE Romans 3:19-28 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

26. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; Rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin. But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

27. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood— to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—He did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus. Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. For we maintain that a person is JUSTIFIED BY FAITH apart from the works of the law.

28. THE SECOND NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURE John 8:31-36 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?” Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

29. #575 ‘LEANING ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS’ [ All who are able please stand ]

30. What a fellowship,(1) what a joy divine, Leaning on the everlasting arms; What a blessedness, what a peace is mine, Leaning on the everlasting arms. Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms; Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.

31. Oh, how sweet to walk(2) in this pilgrim way, Leaning on the everlasting arms; Oh, how bright the path grows from day to day, Leaning on the everlasting arms. Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms; Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.

32. What have I to dread, (3) what have I to fear, Leaning on the everlasting arms? I have blessed peace with my Lord so near, Leaning on the everlasting arms. Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms; Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.

33. THE SERMON MARTIN LUTHER: THE DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE Reformation Sunday Bayshore Gardens Community Church Dr. Daniel Herlein

36. Psalm 51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

37. ROMANS 3:21-23 THE CENTRAL FOCUS OF THE REFORMATION “But now the righteousness of God has been made known apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ is for all who believe. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified (made right with God) by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God sent to us.”

38. Katharina Von Bora Martin Luther’s wife

40. John 8:31-32 “If you abide in My word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

41. 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.

42. 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

43. OFFERTORY MUSIC “Close To Thee” Pastor Dan

44. 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

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

46. (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.

47. (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.

48. (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.

49. (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.

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