Sunday Celebration 10/02/2022
Affirmation of Faith, Affirmation Chorus, Song Lyrics, and Today’s Scriptures are listed after the order of worship below:
WELCOME & INVOCATION & AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
AFFIRMATION CHORUS: “IN THIS PLACE”
SING AND CELEBRATE:
1. THANK YOU THANK YOU JESUS
2. GOD IS HERE
3. TEN THOUSAND REASONS
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE:
PSALMS 68:6
MARK 2:1-5
2 CORINTHIANS 1: 3-4
GALATIANS 6:2
SPECIAL MUSIC
PRAISE AND PRAYER
SPECIAL MUSIC
TODAY’S SERMON: “I STAND BY THE DOOR”
HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY PASTOR TAMMY PRESENTATION
Our Affirmation of Faith
We believe in God the creator of us all, whose desire for
diversity is seen in the rainbow of humanity. With unrelenting
passion God Seeks to be in relationship with all of us.
We believe in Jesus the Christ, who is the embodiment of
God’s redeeming grace; And in the Holy Spirit through whom
that grace continues its restoring work.
We believe in the Church. It is the body of Christ on the earth
today. As ministers of this church, we are all called like Jesus,
to heal, to deliver, to teach, and to serve.
We believe that together we can change the world,
in our time and for all time Amen!
Affirmation Chorus: In This Place
In this place, There’s joy that I can’t explain
In this place, There’s healing for all my pain
There is love unlike I’ve ever known
Everybody here makes me feel at home
As we gather here, I know I’m not alone
I feel God’s presence, Moving in this place..
THANK YOU, THANK YOU JESUS
Chorus: Thank you Thank you Jesus, For all you’ve done for me
Thank you Thank you Jesus, You’ve been so good to me (repeat)
My soul looks back in wonder, How you brought me over
I just want to say, THANK YOU (repeat all) (Praise Team sings verses)
GOD IS HERE
Verse 1 There is a sweet anointing in this sanctuary There is a stillness in the atmosphere Come and lay down the burdens you have carried For in this sanctuary God is here (repeat 2x)
Chorus God is here, God is here To break the yoke and lift the heavy burden God is here, God is here To heal the hopeless heart and bless the broken Come and lay down the burdens you have carried For in this sanctuary God is here (repeat chorus)
Acappella Come and lay down the burdens you have carried For in this sanctuary God is here
10,000 REASONS
Chorus: Bless the Lord oh my soul… Oh my soul. I cherish Your lovely name
Sing like never before, Oh my soul. I’ll cherish Your lovely name.(pause)
Verse 1: The sun comes up. It’s a new day dawning, It’s time to sing Your song again
Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me/
Let me be singing when the evening comes (pause, repeat chorus)
Verse 2 You’re rich in love, and You’re always faithful. Your grace is great
And Your heart is kind. For all Your goodness I will keep on singing
Ten thousand reason for my heart to find (pause, repeat chorus)
Verse 3 And on that day, When my strength is failing.
The end draws near, And my time has come
Still my soul will sing Your love unending
Ten thousand years and then forevermore. Forevermore
(repeat chorus then continue below)
Yes I will cherish Your lovely name. Jesus I’ll cherish Your lovely name
Sing like never before, Oh my soul, I’ll cherish Your lovely name
Jesus I’ll cherish Your lovely name
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE:
God places the solitary in families and gives the desolate a home in
which to dwell. PSALMS 68:6
When Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, the news
spread quickly that he was back home. Soon the house where he was
staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room,
even outside the door. While he was preaching God’s word to them,
four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They couldn’t
bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through
the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right
down in front of Jesus. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed
man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.” MARK 2:1-5
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father
of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all
our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the
comfort we ourselves have received from God.
2 CORINTHIANS 1: 3-4
Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.
GALATIANS 6:2
“I STAND BY THE DOOR” By Samuel Moor Shoemaker
I stand by the door.
I neither go too far in, nor stay too far out,
The door is the most important door in the world—
It is the door through which men walk when they find God.
There’s no use my going way inside and staying there,
When so many are still outside and they, as much as I,
Crave to know where the door is.
And all that so many ever find
Is only the wall where a door ought to be.
They creep along the wall like blind men,
With outstretched, groping hands.
Feeling for the door, knowing there must be a door,
Yet they never find it …
So I stand by the door.
The most tremendous thing in the world
Is for men to find that door—the door to God.
The most important thing any man can do
Is to take hold of one of those blind, groping hands,
And put it on the latch—the latch that only clicks
And opens to the man’s own touch.
Men die outside that door, as starving beggars die
On cold nights in cruel cities in the dead of winter—
Die for want of what is within their grasp.
They live, on the other side of it—live because they
have not found it,
Nothing else matters compared to helping them find it,
And open it, and walk in, and find him …
So I stand by the door.
Go in, great saints, go all the way in—
Go way down into the cavernous cellars,
And way up into the spacious attics—
It is a vast, roomy house, this house where God is.
Go into the deepest of hidden casements,
Of withdrawal, of silence, of sainthood.
Some must inhabit those inner rooms,
And know the depth and heights of God,
And call outside to the rest of us how wonderful it is.
Sometimes I take a deeper look in,
Sometimes I venture in a little farther;
But my place seems closer to the opening …
So I stand by the door.
There is another reason why I stand there.
Some people get part way in and become afraid
Lest God and the zeal of his house devour them;
For God is so very great and asks all of us.
And these people feel a cosmic claustrophobia,
And want to get out, “Let me out!” they cry.
And the people way inside only terrify them more.
Somebody must be by the door to tell them that they
Are spoiled for the old life, they have seen too much;
Once taste God, and nothing but God will do any more.
Somebody must be watching for the frightened
Who seek to sneak out just where they came in,
To tell them how much better it is inside.
The people too far in do not see how near these are
To leaving—preoccupied with the wonder of it all.
Somebody must watch for those who have entered the door,
But would like to run away. So for them, too,
I stand by the door.
I admire the people who go way in.
But I wish they would not forget how it was
Before they got in. Then they would be able to help
The people who have not yet even found the door,
Or the people who want to run away again from God.
You can go in too deeply, and stay in too long,
And forget the people outside the door.
As for me, I shall take my old accustomed place,
Near enough to God to hear him, and know he is there,
But not so far from men as not to hear them,
And remember they are there, too.
Where? Outside the door—
Thousands of them, millions of them.
But—more important for me—
One of them, two of them, ten of them,
Whose hands I am intended to put on the latch.
So I shall stand by the door and wait
For those who seek it.
“I had rather be a door-keeper …”
So I stand by the door.