Village Seven Presbyterian Church

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Village Seven Presbyterian Church
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To Be Renewed
Discovering Life-changing Fellowship with God in
Worship
Village Seven Presbyterian Church
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• Session 1 Seeking Spiritual Renewal In Worship
• Session 2 Exploring the Nature of Worship
• Session 3 Drawn by the Triune God of Grace
• Session 4 Gathered with the Redeemed Community
• Session 5 The Redeemed Community in Praise
• Session 6 The Redeemed Community in Prayer
• Session 7 The Redeemed Community in Fellowship
• Session 8 The Redeemed Community and the Word
• Session 9 The Redeemed Community at Table
• Session 10 The Redeemed Community Sent Forth ?

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Worship A Gathering of the Redeemed Community
Sent Forth
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Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom
shall I send? And who will go for us? And I
said, Here am I. Send me! He said, Go . . .
Isaiah 68-9 NIV
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Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and
sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the
Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to
heed is better than the fat of rams. 1 Samuel
1522 NIV
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But Moses said to God, Who am I, that I should
go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of
Egypt? And God said, I will be with you. And
this will be the sign to you that it is I who
have sent you When you have brought the people
out of Egypt, you will worship God on this
mountain. Exodus 311-12 NIV
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Jonah
The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of
Amittai Go to the great city of Nineveh and
preach
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But Jonah ran away from the LORD
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I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD, the God of
heaven, who made the sea and the land.
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From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his
God. He said In my distress I called to the
LORD, and he answered me. From the depths of the
grave I called for help, and you listened to my
cry.
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Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the
grace that could be theirs. But I, with a song of
thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you. What I have
vowed I will make good. Salvation comes from the
LORD.
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And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited
Jonah onto dry land.
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Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second
time Go to the great city of Nineveh and
proclaim to it the message I give you.

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Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went
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No worship ? No obedience Worship ?
Obedience fruitful service
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When they saw him, they worshiped him but some
doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, All
authority in heaven and on earth has been given
to me. Therefore go . . . Matthew 2817-20a
NIV
Christs Commission
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Matthew 288-10 NIV

•  8So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid
  yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his
  disciples. 9Suddenly Jesus met them. Greetings,
  he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and
  worshiped him. 10Then Jesus said to them, Do not
  be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to
  Galilee there they will see me.

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Mark
He appointed twelve designating them apostles
that they might be with him and that he might
send them out to preach Mark 314 NIV
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Early Church
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting,
the Holy Spirit said, Set apart for me Barnabas
and Saul for the work to which I have called
them. So after they had fasted and prayed, they
placed their hands on them and sent them off.
Acts 132-3 NIV
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• Authentic worship issues forth into obedient
  living and fruitful service.
• If worship is authentic, it issues forth into
  obedient living and fruitful service.

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The Great Commandment to Love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind and with all your strength
(Mark 1230) that is, to worship God is
followed by The Great Commission to go and make
disciples.
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Who is sent?
We are therefore Christs ambassadors, as though
God were making his appeal through us. 2
Corinthians 520 NIV
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Four Acts of Dismissal

• Announcements (Opt. Offering)
• Benediction
• Recessional or Closing Song
• Words of Dismissal

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• Announcements
• represent the ongoing activity of the
  worshiping community.
• A practical expression of
• the churchs commission
• to ministry in Christs name

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• The Offering
• Ascribe to the Lord the honor due his Name
  bring an offering and come into his courts.
•  Psalm 968

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And now, brothers, we want you to know about the
grace that God has given the Macedonian churches.
Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing
joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich
generosity. For I testify that they gave as much
as they were able, and even beyond their ability.
Entirely on their own, they urgently pleaded with
us for the privilege of sharing in this service
to the saints. 2 Corinthians 81-4 NIV
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And they did not do as we expected, but they
gave them-selves first to the Lord and then to us
in keeping with Gods will. 2 Corinthians
85 NIV
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• Benediction
• Receive as an authoritative declaration of
• Gods favor.
• God wants to bless us! Respond with Amen.

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Pastors raised hands picture laying on of
hands.
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Biblical Benedictions

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying Speak to
Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the way you
shall bless the children of Israel. Say to
them The LORD bless you and keep you The LORD
make His face shine upon you,And be gracious to
you The LORD lift up His countenance upon
you,And give you peace. Numbers 622-26 NKJV
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Biblical Benedictions

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy
Spirit be with you all. 2 Corinthians 1314
NIV
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Biblical Benedictions

To him who is able to keep you from falling and
to present you before his glorious presence
without fault and with great joyto the only God
our Savior be glory, majesty, power and
authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before
all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. Jude
24-25 NIV
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• Words of Dismissal

A commission to go into the world to do what
we have experienced in worshipworks of love in
the context of prayer and praise.
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When Moses went and told the people all the
Lords words and laws, they responded with one
voice, Everything the Lord has said we will
do. Exodus 243 NIV
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Exodus 241-2 NIV  1Then he said to Moses, Come
up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,
and seventy of the elders of Israel. You are to
worship at a distance, 2 but Moses alone is to
approach the LORD the others must not come near.
And the people may not come up with him.
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And the people said to Joshua, We will serve
the Lord our God and obey him. Joshua 2424
NIV
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Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of
Gods mercy, to offer your bodies as living
sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God this is
your spiritual act of worship. Romans 121 NIV
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The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through
hands that heal and bless. The highest form of
worship is the worship of unselfish Christian
service. The greatest form of praise is the sound
of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and
helpless. Billy Graham
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Authentic worship is first a celebration of
redemption, the mighty saving acts of God in
Christ. It is finally a dedication of life to God
and a sending forth to be his redemptive agents
in a world Christ died to redeem.
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• Recessional
• or Closing Song

• An expression of continuing worship
• The praise not only of our lips but of our
  lives

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As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in
holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from
becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing
needs of modern life. Richard Foster
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A final question
A. E. Whitham
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If you knew that there was one greater than
yourself, who knows you better than you can know
yourself, and loves you better than you can love
yourself, who can make you all you ought to be,
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steadier than your squally nature, able to save
you from squandering your glorious life, who
searches you beyond the standards of earth one
who gathered into himself all great and good
things and causes,
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blending in his beauty all the enduring color of
life, who could turn your dreams into visions,
and make real the things you hoped were true
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and if that one had ever done one unmistakable
thing to prove, even at the price of bloodhis
own bloodthat you could come to him,
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To Be Renewed
and having failed, come again Would you not
fall at his feet with the treasure of your years,
your powers, service, and love? And is there not
such a one, and does he not call you ?
Discovering Life-changing Fellowship with God in
Worship
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