This week we continue our series Confronting Christianity. We will think about the question “Does Christianity Condone Oppression and Slavery?” Bob DeGray will preach from Colossians 3:9-11 and other Scriptures. The worship theme is “Every Tribe and Tongue” (diversity in eternity!) and the visual theme is “continents from space.”
Here is the link to the YouTube playlist: 210815 Heart Prep
Call to Worship
All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name
O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Revelation 5:6–10 And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. 7And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. 8And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, 10and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.”
Revelation 15:3–4 And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations! 4Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.”
Preparation for Communion
Every Knee Will Bow
Closing Worship
O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Bonus Music: New music from Shane & Shane with water and waterfall imagery from Bob and Gail’s recent trip to Tennessee
Living Water
Scripture for Meditation:
Exodus 23:6–9 “You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. 7Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. 8And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right. 9“You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 23:22 “And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.”
Deuteronomy 10:17–19 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. 18He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. 19Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.