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WELCOME TO WORSHIP | sunday | april 26, 2026

a diverse, inclusive church experiencing and reflecting the love, hope and joy of Jesus Christ

to each other and our community.

WELCOME | Pastor Doug Johns

WELCOME ONE ANOTHER

WAYS TO CONNECT | christchurchfl.org/ways2connect
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PRELUDE
He Leadeth Me | arr. Albin C. Whitworth
Chuck Stanley, organ; Doug Friend, percussion
Albin C Whitworth | © 1982, 2003 Belsin-Mills Publishing (ASCAP) | all rights reserved | used with permission under One License #A-726973

* CALL TO WORSHIP | Susan Spragg, liturgist
Come, people of God—called not only to receive grace, but to share it.
We come as partners in God’s work of salvation.
God’s love is not meant to be held, but to be offered freely.
We will open our hearts and our hands to our community.
Where there are barriers, God calls us to build bridges.
We will act as God acts—welcoming, healing, and restoring.
This is our calling: to reflect God’s grace in word and deed.
We come ready to serve, ready to love, ready to worship.

* GATHERING HYMN
God, Whose Love is Reigning o’er Us | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 100 (verses 1,2,4,5)
God, whose love is reigning o’er us, source of all, the ending true;
hear the universal chorus raised in joyful praise to you:
Alleluia, Alleluia, worship ancient, worship new.

Word of God from nature bringing springtime green and autumn gold;
mountain streams like children singing, ocean waves like thunder bold:
Alleluia, Alleluia, as creation’s tale is told.

Covenant, new again in Jesus, Starchild born to set us free;
sent to heal us, sent to teach us how love’s children we might be.
Alleluia, Alleluia, risen Christ, our Savior he!

Lift we then our human voices in the songs that faith would bring;
live we then in human choices lives that, like our music, sing:
Alleluia, Alleluia, joined in love our praises ring!

* OPENING PRAYER
Gracious and loving God, you have not only saved us, but invited us into your saving work. You call us to be more than recipients of grace—you call us to be vessels of it. Trust us with the sacred task of carrying your mercy into our neighborhoods, of offering welcome where there has been exclusion, and of opening doors where others have found only walls. Shape us into a people who act as you act: welcoming the stranger, lifting the burdened, and offering hope to those who feel forgotten. Give us the courage to remove obstacles that keep others from your love. Send us out as instruments of your salvation, so that our community may experience your love through our lives. Amen.

* AN EASTER AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
We believe in a God who astounds us! God created towering mountains, sparkling sandy beaches,
lush green meadows, and dazzling wonders in the night sky. From the hummingbird to the whale, all creation sings your praise. God surprises and astounds us in places where we expected God was absent.

We believe in Jesus, the Son of God, whose life, death, and resurrection transforms the world with the power of God’s love. His body, crucified and buried, was placed in a tomb. Three days later, he rose from the dead. Jesus, our Risen Savior, embraces us with new life saying, “Because I live, you also will live.”

We believe in the Holy Spirit who empowers us to be an Easter people, calling us to be witnesses to the resurrection. The Spirit fills us with strength and sends us out to into the world to proclaim the good news: Christ is Risen! He is Risen indeed! Alleluia! Alleluia! Amen!

* GLORIA PATRI
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.

Henry W. Greatorex | public domain | CCLI License # 487103

SCRIPTURE
Matthew 20:1-16 | New Revised Standard Version, updated edition

¹ “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. ²After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, ⁴and he said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went. ⁵When he went out again about noon and about three o’clock, he did the same. ⁶And 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?’ ⁷They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard.’ ⁸When 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.’ ⁹When those hired about five o’clock came, each of them received a denarius. ¹⁰Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius. ¹¹And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner, ¹²saying, ‘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.’ ¹³But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius? ¹⁴Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you. ¹⁵Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ ¹⁶So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

These are the words of God for us, the people of God. Thanks be to God.

MESSAGE
Signs of the Kingdom | The Laborers in the Vineyard | Pastor Doug Johns

OFFERING
worshiping through the offering of our lives and gifts

Place offerings in the plates or wooden boxes
Give online at christchurchfl.org/give
Text GIVE to 954.880.3885
Mail a check to Christ Church, 4845 NE 25th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308

Connect cards may also be placed with your offering. Christ Church is a congregationally supported ministry. We thank you for your faithfulness as we reflect the love, hope and joy of Jesus to our community.

MUSIC MINISTRY

Make Me an Instrument | Craig Courtney
Chancel Choir
O Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith, where there is despair, hope, where there is darkness, light, where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that we might not seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; it is in dying we are born to eternal life. Amen.

* DOXOLOGY
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Bourgeois & Ken | public domain | CCLI License # 487103

MORNING PRAYER

THE LORD’S PRAYER 
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

* HYMN OF COMMITMENT
Christ, You Call Us All to Service | HYMN TO JOY
Christ You call us all to service, call us all who follow you;

Plant in us a deep commitment all your work and will to do.

Fire a passion for your justice, in us kindle love of peace,

Help us heal the brokenhearted, to the captive bring release.

Teach us how to work together, brothers, sisters side by side,

Equal partners in the struggle, in the cause of truth allied.

To each one some gift is given, man or woman young or old,

Help us use each skill and talent your great purpose to unfold.

Let us be a servant people reconciling ending strife,

Seeking ways more just of sharing, and of ordering human life.

Fill us with a glowing vision of this world as it should be;

Send us forth to change that vision into blest reality.

* SENDING FORTH

* RESPONSE
He Lives (refrain) | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 310
He lives, he lives, Christ Jesus lives today!
He walks with me and talks with me along life’s narrow way.
He lives, he lives, salvation to impart!
You ask me how I know he lives. He lives within my heart.

* please stand in body or spirit.

Join us next Sunday as we continue the series, Signs of the Kingdom, with the message, Agents of Love, based on Matthew 15:21-28.

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