Morning Worship Gathering

Sunday, June 19, 2022 | The Third Sunday in Pentecost
Father’s Day - Juneteenth Sunday

Order of Worship

CALL TO WORSHIP

L: The Lord be with You
P: And with your Spirit
L: Lift Up Your Hearts
P: We lift them up to the Lord
L: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God
P: It is right to give God thanks and Praise
L: Let us worship God!

SONGS OF WORSHIP

THE OFFERING
There are two ways to give at BCC. In the physical giving station in the back of the sanctuary, or online here.

NEW CITY CATECHISM
Question: Will God allow our disobedience and idolatry to go unpunished?

Answer: No, every sin is against the sovereignty, holiness, and goodness of God, and against his righteous law, and God is righteously angry with our sins and will punish them in his just judgment both in this life, and in the life to come.

CONFESSION AND ASSURANCE

Almighty and ever-loving God, Source of all that is,
Giver of every good gift:
You create all people in your image
and call us to love one another as you love us.
We confess that we have failed to honor you
in the great diversity of the human family.
We have desired to live in freedom,
while building walls between ourselves and others.
We have longed to be known and accepted for who we are,
while making judgements of others based on the color of skin,
or the shape of features, or the varieties of human experience.
We have tried to love our neighbors individually
while yet benefitting from systems that hold
those same neighbors in oppression.
Forgive us, Holy God.
Give us eyes to see you as you are revealed in all people.
Strengthen us for the work of reconciliation rooted in love.
Restore us in your image, to be a beloved community,
united in our diversity,
even as you are one with Christ and the Spirit,

Holy and undivided Trinity, now and forever. Amen.

SONGS OF WORSHIP

THE SERMON

Isaiah 61:1-12 | Freedom Fathers
Pastor Keon L. Abner
The Year of the Lord’s Favor

61 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
    because the Lord has anointed me
    to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
    to proclaim freedom for the captives
    and release from darkness for the prisoners,[a]
2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor
    and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn,
3     and provide for those who grieve in Zion—
to bestow on them a crown of beauty
    instead of ashes,
the oil of joy
    instead of mourning,
and a garment of praise
    instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
    a planting of the Lord
    for the display of his splendor.

4 They will rebuild the ancient ruins
    and restore the places long devastated;
they will renew the ruined cities
    that have been devastated for generations.
5 Strangers will shepherd your flocks;
    foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.
6 And you will be called priests of the Lord,
    you will be named ministers of our God.
You will feed on the wealth of nations,
    and in their riches you will boast.

7 Instead of your shame
    you will receive a double portion,
and instead of disgrace
    you will rejoice in your inheritance.
And so you will inherit a double portion in your land,
    and everlasting joy will be yours.

8 “For I, the Lord, love justice;
    I hate robbery and wrongdoing.
In my faithfulness I will reward my people
    and make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 Their descendants will be known among the nations
    and their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will acknowledge
    that they are a people the Lord has blessed.”

10 I delight greatly in the Lord;
    my soul rejoices in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation
    and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,
as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest,
    and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11 For as the soil makes the sprout come up
    and a garden causes seeds to grow,
so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness
    and praise spring up before all nations.

THE LORD’S SUPPER

What is the Lord’s Supper

The Lord’s Supper is a sacrament where we receive bread and wine as a reminder of the death of Jesus Christ for our sins.

How does the Lord’s Supper help us?

The Lord’s Supper helps us to experience the real presence of Christ while we examine our lives and repent of our sins.

Apostles Creed

I Believe in God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord:
who was conceived by the Holy Spirt,
born of the virgin Mary, He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended into hell;
the third day He rose again from the dead;
he ascended into heaven, and is seated on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from there he shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit; the holy *catholic Church;
the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins;
the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting.
Amen.
*universal church

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 trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.

The Blessing