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WELCOME TO WORSHIP | sunday | august 16, 2026

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

to each other and our community.

WELCOME | Pastor Jad Denmark

WELCOME ONE ANOTHER

PRELUDE
Ride the Chariot | arr. Marilynn Ham
Wes Kassulke, piano; Doug Friend, percussion

* CALL TO WORSHIP | Jeanne Deinken, liturgist
Come, people of God, and draw near to the One whose grace is freely given.

We come with open hearts, ready to receive the mercy God pours out.

God’s grace meets us as we are—broken, hopeful, searching, forgiven.

We open ourselves to that grace, trusting its power to renew and transform us.

Having received grace, we are called to live as people shaped by it.

We will show grace in our words, our choices, and our relationships.

Let us worship the God whose grace restores us and sends us out in love.

With gratitude and openness, we worship the God of grace.

* GATHERING HYMN
Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 66 (verses 1,2,3,4)
Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven, to the throne thy tribute bring;

ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, evermore God’s praises sing.

Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise the everlasting king.

Praise the Lord for grace and favor to all people in distress;

praise God, still the same as ever, slow to chide, and swift to bless.  

Alleluia! Alleluia! Glorious now God’s faithfulness.

Father-like, God tends and spares us; well our feeble frame God knows;

mother-like, God gently bears us, rescues us from all our foes.  

Alleluia! Alleluia! Widely yet God’s mercy flows.  

Angels in the heights, adoring, you behold God face to face;

saints triumphant, now adoring, gathered in from every race.  
Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise with us the God of grace.

Henry Francis Lyte | music & words: public domain | CCLI License # 487103

* OPENING PRAYER
Gracious God, your mercy comes to us without price, without condition, without limit. You offer grace freely, and all you ask is that we open our hearts to receive it. Loosen whatever keeps us guarded or hesitant, and let your healing presence take root within us. Teach us to live as people shaped by forgiveness. Let grace be more than a gift we receive; let it become the way we move through the world. Help us to show patience where there is frustration, kindness where there is hurt, and compassion where there is need. Renew us, reshape us, and send us out as bearers of your grace. Amen.

* AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
A Modern Affirmation
leader Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is the one true church, apostolic and universal, whose holy faith let us now declare:
all We believe in God the Father, infinite in wisdom, power, and love, whose mercy is over all his works, and whose will is ever directed to his children’s good. We believe in Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of Man, the gift of the Father’s unfailing grace, the ground of our hope, and the promise of our deliverance from sin and death. We believe in the Holy Spirit as the divine presence in our lives, whereby we are kept in perpetual remembrance of the truth of Christ, and find strength and help in time of need. We believe that this faith should manifest itself in the service of love as set forth in the example of our blessed Lord, to the end that the kingdom of God may come upon the earth. 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

MUSIC MINISTRY
How Great Thou Art | arr. Stephen Nelson
Richard Christobal Harris, tenor

PASTORAL 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.

STEWARDSHIP MOMENT
Ministry to Christ Church School

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, which helps the church reflect the love, hope and joy of Jesus to our community.

MUSIC MINISTRY

There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy | Mary McDonald

Chancel Choir; Phil Woodard, directing
There is welcome for the sinner and more graces for the good; there is mercy with the Savior; there is healing in his blood. But we make his love too narrow by false limits of our own; and we magnify his strictness with a zeal he will not own. There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the sea; there’s a kindness in his justice, which is more than liberty. If our love were but more simple, we could take him at his word; and our lives would be more loving in the likeness of our Lord.

* 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

SCRIPTURE
Luke 7:36-50 | New Revised Standard Version, updated edition
36 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and when he went into the Pharisee’s house he reclined to dine. 37 And a woman in the city who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. 38 She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair, kissing his feet and anointing them with the ointment. 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.” 40 Jesus spoke up and said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” “Teacher,” he replied, “speak.” 41 “A certain moneylender had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 42 When they could not pay, he canceled the debts for both of them. Now which of them will love him more?” 43 Simon answered, “I suppose the one for whom he canceled the greater debt.” And Jesus said to him, “You have judged rightly.” 44 Then turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has bathed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. 45 You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet. 46 You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. 47 Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; hence she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven loves little.” 48 Then he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.” 49 But those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?” 50 But he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

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

MESSAGE
Jesus and ... | Jesus and the Religious | Pastor Jad Denmark

* HYMN OF COMMITMENT
Freely, Freely | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 389 (verses 1,2)
God forgave my sin in Jesus’ name, I’ve been born again in Jesus’ name,

and in Jesus’ name I come to you, to share his love as he told me to.

(refrain) He said, “Freely, freely you have received, freely, freely give.

Go in my name, and because you believe, others will know that I live.”

All power is given in Jesus’ name, in earth and heaven in Jesus’ name,

and in Jesus’ name I come to you, to share his power as he told me to. (refrain)

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* SENDING FORTH

* RESPONSE
Spirit Song | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 347
O let the Son of God enfold you with his Spirit and his love.
Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.
O let him have the things that hold you, and his Spirit like a dove
will descend upon your life and make you whole.

Jesus, O Jesus, come and fill your lambs.
Jesus, O Jesus, come and fill your lambs.

MUSIC FOR CLOSING
God of Grace | Paul Manz
Wes Kassulke, organ

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Join us next Sunday, when we continue the series, Jesus and ... , with the message, Jesus and Women, based on John 4:5–42.

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