NOTE: WE WILL BE CELEBRATING HOLY COMMUNION DURING THIS SERVICE, PLEASE HAVE YOUR ELEMENTS READY IF YOU WISH TO JOIN IN!
Sunday Celebration 10/19/2025
WELCOME & INVOCATION
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..
SING AND CELEBRATE:
1 YOU ARE GOOD
2.THANK YOU LORD
Verse 1 I come before You today, And there’s just one thing that I want to say Thank You Lord Thank You Lord, For all You’ve given to me For all the blessings that I cannot see, Thank You Lord Thank You Lord
Pre-Chorus: With a grateful heart, With a song of praise
With an outstretched arm, I will bless Your name
Chorus Thank You Lord, I just want to Thank You Lord Thank You Lord, I just want to Thank You Lord, Thank You Lord
Verse 2 For all You’ve done in my life, You took my darkness and gave me Your light
Thank You Lord Thank You Lord, You took my sin and my shame
You took my sickness and heal all my pain, Thank You Lord Thank You Lord
(Repeat Pre-Chorus then Repeat Chorus 2x) (56 counts)
Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish
one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit,
singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in
word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the
Father through him. Thank You Lord, Thank You Lord (pause 16 beats)
Thank You Lord, Thank You Lord (Repeat Pre-Chorus then Repeat Chorus 2x
Thank You Lord! Thank You Lord! Thank You Lord! Thank You Lord
Give thanks with a grateful heart, Give thanks to the holy one
Give thanks because God’s given Jesus Christ the Son
With a grateful heart, With a song of praise, With an outstretched arm
I will bless Your name…. Thank You Lord,I just want to thank You Lord
Thank You Lord, I just want to thank You Lord—Thank you Lord
3.10,000 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
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard. When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and he said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went. When he went out again about noon and about three o’clock, he did the same. And about five o’clock he went out and found others standing around, and he said to them, ‘Why are you standing here idle all day?’ They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard.’ When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and then going to the first.’ When those hired about five o’clock came, each of them received a denarius. Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius. And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner, saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius? Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ So the last will be first, and the first will be last. MATTHEW 20:1-16
SPECIAL MUSIC
PRAISE AND PRAYER
SPECIAL MUSIC
TODAY’S SERMON: “THE UNFAIRNESS OF MERCY”
FINAL SONG
HOLY COMMUNION
NEXT SUNDAY. OCTOBER 26!!! STAN MITCHELL WILL BE SPEAKING HERE AT OPEN DOOR!!!
Stan Mitchell is the founding pastor of Gracepointe in Nashville. He is a passionate advocate for his LGBTQIA brothers and sisters, and a thought-leader in the evolution of Progressive Christian Theology.
HE IS ALSO A DEAR FRIEND TO PASTOR RANDY AND GARY, AS WELL AS OUR CHURCH. PLEASE INVITE FRIENDS TO COME WITH YOU NEXT WEEK TO HEAR THIS DYNAMIC SPEAKER.