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11AM Order of Worship

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WELCOME TO WORSHIP | sunday | october 26, 2025

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

to each other and our community.

PRELUDE
Shall We Gather at the River | John Carter
Wes Kassulke, piano; Doug Friend, percussion

WELCOME | Brian McComb

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WELCOME ONE ANOTHER

* CALL TO WORSHIP | Richard Sheffield, liturgist
Come, all who feel unseen or unworthy — Jesus sees you and calls you by name.
We come, drawn by a love that reaches beyond our failures and fears.

In Christ, the lost are found and the outcast are welcomed home.
God’s grace lifts us up and sets our feet on a new path.

Those who encounter Jesus are never the same again.
Hearts are changed, lives are renewed, and purpose is restored.

Come, people of God, and open your hearts to transformation.
We come to worship the one who redeems us and sends us to serve.

* GATHERING HYMN
Ask Ye What Great Things I Know | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 163 (verses 1,2,3,4)
Ask ye what great thing I know,
that delights and stirs me so?
What the high reward I win?
Whose the name I glory in?
Jesus Christ, the crucified.

Who defeats my fiercest foes?
Who consoles my saddest woes?
Who revives my fainting heart,
healing all its hidden smart?
Jesus Christ, the crucified.

Who is life in life to me?
Who the death of death will be?
Who will place me on his right,
with the countless hosts of light?
Jesus Christ, the crucified.

This is that great thing I know;
this delights and stirs me so:
faith in him who died to save,
him who triumphed o'er the grave:
Jesus Christ, the crucified.

Benjamin H. Kennedy, Henri Abraham Cesar Malan & Johann Christoph Schwedler | music & words: public domain | CCLI License # 487103

* OPENING PRAYER
Loving God, we thank you for the incredible gift of your Son, Jesus Christ, who transforms our lives. We acknowledge that each of us has known what it means to be lost. We feel too small, too broken, too unworthy to be noticed. Yet you, O Lord, are the God who sees. You are the one who calls us by name. Thank you for choosing us—not because we had it all together, but precisely because we didn't. We celebrate the transforming power of your love—love that doesn't just accept us as we are, but invites us to become more than we imagined. As you change us from the inside out, empower us to serve others with the same radical grace we have received. Amen.

* AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
We believe in the God of all Creation, made known to us in Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. God’s perfect and endless love shows us how to love one another.
We believe in Christ Jesus, God with us, King and Suffering Servant, High Priest and Lamb of God. He is the Bread of Life, The Word made flesh, whose life, death and resurrection redeems and restores us and gives hope to the world.
We believe in the Holy Spirit who inspires, sustains, and purifies us. The Spirit continues to form us into the nature of Christ and transform us with gifts. Binding us into one body, the Spirit calls us to love and serve the world.
We rejoice in our God, who like a faithful mother does not abandon her child. We celebrate our God, who like a loving father welcomes the prodigal home.
In life and death, we belong to you, everlasting God: our Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer.

* 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
Lord of the Small | Dan Forrest
Jerry Ferguson, bass

SCRIPTURE
Luke 19:1-10 | New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
¹He entered Jericho and was passing through it. ²A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. ³He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. ⁴So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way. ⁵When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” ⁶So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him. ⁷All who saw it began to grumble and said, “He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner.” ⁸Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.” ⁹Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham. ¹⁰For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.”

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

MESSAGE
Unstuck | Are We Lost or Found? | Connie Bookholt

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 25^th 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

Invitation to Praise | Joseph M. Martin
Chancel Choir
Come, all people; left your voices. Come before God with shouts of cries and joy! Bring to the Lord your gifts of praise. Sing to the Lord a new song. Let everything that hath a voice sing! Make unto God a joyful noise! All people make a joyful noise! Come before God with music and song. Come before God with shouts of acclamation. Give to the Lord a heart of thanksgiving. Sing to the Lord, for God alone is worthy of praise. Let us rejoice with music and dance. Offer to God the works of your hands. Let us rejoice with drama and art. Let us rejoice with mind, soul and heart. Let us rejoice with spoken word! Let us rejoice with poetry and verse. Let us rejoice with acts of grace. Let us rejoice with love’s embrace. Let every gift and talent magnify the Lord, let every gift be lifted high, each life a living sacrifice. Come all people; lift your voices. Alleluia! Let every gift and talent be raised! Great is the Lord and worthy of praise! Let all your gifts praise the 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

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
I Have Decided to Follow Jesus
I have decided to follow Jesus
I have decided to follow Jesus
I have decided to follow Jesus
No turning back. No turning back.

Though I may wonder still I will follow
Though I may wonder still I will follow
Though I may wonder still I will follow
No turning back. No turning back.

I have surrendered my all to Jesus
I have surrendered my all to Jesus
I have surrendered my all to Jesus
No turning back. No turning back.

* 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
Praise Him! Praise Him! | arr. Mary McDonald
Chuck Stanley, organ

* please stand in body or spirit.

Join us next Sunday as we continue the series Unstuck with the message Claiming our Belovedness, based on Romans 8:31-35 and 37-39.

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