SIMPLE HISTORIC WORSHIPRURAL HALL CHRISTIAN CHURCHEST. 1893
+ PRAYER
Pastoral Greeting: “Happy Lord’s Day.”
Announcements: Church-wide events and reminders.
Opening Adoration: “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty! The Lord is great and greatly to be praised. He is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the Lord made the heavens” (Rev 4:8; Ps 96:4-5).
Declaration of Dependence: “Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth” (Ps 124:8).
Call to Worship: “Come, let us worship and bow down before the Lord, our Maker. He is our God, and we are his people” (Ps 96:6-7).
Apostolic Greeting: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all” (2 Cor 13:14).
Opening Praise Hymn: “Let us stand together and sing praise to our God.”
Call to Confession: “May our God have mercy on us according to his lovingkindness. Take a moment to consider your transgressions and sins and admit them to the Lord that according to the multitude of his tender mercies he might blot them out" (Ps 51:1, 3).
Opening Prayer: Offered to God to consecrate the time and service to him.
Assurance of Forgiveness: “Be assured that as far as the east is from the west, so far does God remove our transgressions from us” (Ps 103:12).
Proclamation of Faith: Reading of “The Apostles’ Creed.”
+ THE APOSTLES' DOCTRINE (MINISTRY OF THE WORD)
Reading from the Psalms: Lectio continua.
Hymn: Congregational praise song.
Hymn: Congregational praise song.
Reading from the Gospels: Lectio continua.
Pastoral Prayer: Thanksgivings, Supplications, and Preparation for the Table.
+ THE BREAKING OF BREAD (MINISTRY OF THE TABLE)
Exhortation: Warning and invitation.
Meditation: To help prepare participants.
Distribution: Believers receive the bread and the cup of the Lord's Supper.
Words of Institution and Partaking: Pastor and Congregation.
Post-Communion Prayer: Thanksgiving for Christ’s atoning achievements.
+ SENDING
Exhortation: Sermon delivered by the pastor.
Benediction: Scriptural blessing over the people.