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WELCOME TO WORSHIP | sunday | august 23, 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
Amazing Grace | arr. Michael Kraychuk
Erin Tabatabaei, piano

* CALL TO WORSHIP | Connie Booth, liturgist
Come, all who seek to follow Jesus.

We come to learn again the way of Christ.

Jesus met people where they were—at tables, along the road, in crowded places, and at an ordinary well.

Jesus saw people others overlooked and welcomed those others avoided.

And as followers of Jesus, we are called to do the same.

We open our hearts to welcome others and to cross the boundaries that divide us.

Come and worship the Christ who chose surprising company and invites us to follow his way of welcome.

We come to praise the one who accepts us, transforms us, and sends us to love as he loved.

* GATHERING HYMN
Holy, Holy, Holy! | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 64 (verses 1,2,3,4)
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!

Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.

Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty,

God in three persons, blessed Trinity!

Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore thee,

casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;

cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee,

which wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.

Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide thee,

though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see,

only thou art holy; there is none beside thee,

perfect in power, in love and purity.

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!

All thy works shall praise thy name, in earth and sky and sea.

Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty,
God in three persons, blessed Trinity.

words & music: public domain | CCLI License # 487103

* OPENING PRAYER
Loving God, thank you for welcoming us today with a love that has no limits. You seek us out, know our hearts, and draw us together into one family. Teach us to live like Jesus—to sit with, walk beside, and welcome anyone the world overlooks. Challenge our assumptions and lead us beyond our comfort zones. Knock down the divisions that separate us from each other and from our neighbors. Teach us to reflect your radical hospitality so that all who cross our path know your dignity and grace. Send us into our communities as witnesses to your transforming love. 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
The King of Love My Shepherd Is | Charles Gounod
Phil Woodard, bass

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

Church-School office receptionists – welcoming guests and callers

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

Here am I, Send me | John Purifoy

Chancel Choir
Here am I, send me. Here am I, Lord, send me. Unto thee, willingly, yielded I come. Show the path that I must walk, compel me then to go, and if I stray, bring back the light of day, for here am I, send me I pray. Send me to be what’s created in me. Formed in your image, I stand. Turn my weakness into your power, power to be at last all I’m able to be. Here am I, Lord, send me. Precious Holy Spirit, come, fill me anew. Give me wisdom, send me strength, grant that I may be a mirror of your never-ending love, for here am I, send me I pray.

* 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
John 4:5–42 | New Revised Standard Version, updated edition
5 So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.

7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”

27 Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” 28 Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, 29 “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?” 30 They left the city and were on their way to him.

39 Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”

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

MESSAGE
Jesus and ... | Jesus and Women | Pastor Jad Denmark

* HYMN OF COMMITMENT
Help us Accept Each Other | LANCASHIRE
Help us accept each other as Christ accepted us;
teach us as sister, brother, each person to embrace.
Be present, Lord, among us, and bring us to believe
we are ourselves accepted and meant to love and live.

Teach us, O Lord, your lessons, as in our daily life

we struggle to be human and search for hope and faith.
Teach us to care for people, for all, not just for some,
to love them as we find them, or as they may become.

Let your acceptance change us, so that we may be moved
in living situations to do the truth in love;
to practice your acceptance, until we know by heart
the table of forgiveness and laughter’s healing art.

Lord, for today’s encounters with all who are in need,
who hunger for acceptance, for righteousness and bread,
we need new eyes for seeing, new hands for holding on;
renew us with your Spirit; Lord, free us, make us one!

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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
Festival of Praise | Phil Lehenbauer
Chuck Stanley, organ

Join us next Sunday, when we continue the series, Jesus and ... , with the message, Jesus and the Suffering, based on Mark 5:25–34.

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