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Central Baptist is open for in-person worship but will continue to live-stream the service through the embedded video.
As of March 7 Central Baptist has made mask wearing optional to be in the building. It is still strongly recommended that both those who are immune-compromised, or are in close proximity to those who are immune-compromised, continue to mask for worship.
Order of Worship
Prelude
Welcome
Announcements
Call to Worship, Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22
Worship Song, #486 "Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy"
Verse 1
Come ye sinners poor and needy
Weak and wounded sick and sore
Jesus ready stands to save you
Full of pity love and power
Verse 2
Come ye thirsty come and welcome
God's free bounty glorify
True belief and true repentance
Every grace that brings you nigh
Verse 3
Let not conscience make you linger
Nor of fitness fondly dream
All the fitness He requireth
Is to feel your need of Him
Verse 4
Come ye weary heavy laden
Lost and ruined by the fall
If you tarry till you're better
You will never come at all
Chorus
I will arise and go to Jesus
He will embrace me in His arms
In the arms of my dear Savior
O there are ten thousand charms
Charles H. Webb | Joseph Hart
© Words: Public Domain
Music: 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House (Admin. by Music Services, Inc.)
For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com
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Opening Prayer & Lord’s Prayer
Passing the Peace (Internet Edition)
Old Testament reading - Numbers 21:4-9
Prayer Time
New Testament reading -Ephesians 2:1-10
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Gospel reading - John 3:14-21
Meditation, “Sin, Death, and Life”
Worship Song, "My Life Is In You Lord"
Chorus
My life is in You Lord
My strength is in You Lord
My hope is in You Lord
In You it's in You
My life is in You Lord
My strength is in You Lord
My hope is in You Lord
In You it's in You
Verse
I will praise You
With all of my life
I will praise You
With all of my strength
With all of my life
With all of my strength
All of my hope is in You
Ending
In You
Daniel Gardner
© 1986 Integrity's Hosanna! Music (Admin. by Integrity Music)
For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com
CCLI License # 468823
Benediction
March Benevolence - America for Christ
FOR THE PURPOSE OF EQUIPPING SAINTS
“Thanks to America for Christ (AFC) Offering contributions, American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) supported communities distressed by the devastation of COVID-19 last year, as the pandemic swept our country and Puerto Rico. We also helped families who lost homes to floods, wildfires and storms, along with children living on the edge because of poverty, and seminarians preparing to devote their lives to sharing the Good News. These are just a few of the ways we minister to those in need; there are many more.”
“Throughout the New Testament, we learn that the earliest Christian congregations expressed their connectedness and community by means of mutual aid. The local church assisted individuals in need and so built the connection. Scattered congregations in one region assisted congregations in crisis in other regions and so strengthened the sense that there is one universal church, one body in Christ.”
“Through our gifts today, in a time of crisis and division, we, too, exhibit this core value. Mirroring the grace of the One who has called us to live lives filled with gratitude, we extend generosity and love in material and tangible ways to signify the common spiritual bond we enjoy. We incarnate the proclamation that we are one. We are in different rooms but no less a part of the same household—members, indeed, of the same body.”
The Rev. Dr. Leslie D. Callahan is pastor of St. Paul’s Baptist Church, Philadelphia.
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Bread of Life
Hams for Easter are being collected now. They can be put in the CBC freezer or delivered directly to the food pantry.