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WELCOME TO WORSHIP | sunday | july 5, 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

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MUSIC MINISTRY
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms | arr. Larry Shackley
Ensemble

* CALL TO WORSHIP | Brian McComb, liturgist
Beloved in Christ, we gather today as people who have been set free by the grace of God.

We come to worship the One whose love gives life, hope, and freedom.

Christ has not called us to live for ourselves alone.

He calls us to serve God and one another with joyful hearts.

At this table, we remember the One who gave himself for the life of the world.

At this table, we receive anew the gift of liberating love.

Come, let us worship the God who frees us from fear and empowers us to love.

With gratitude and praise, let us join together in worship!

* GATHERING HYMN
Come, Christians, Join to Sing | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 158 (verses 1,2,3)
Come, Christians, join to sing: Alleluia! Amen!
loud praise to Christ our king: Alleluia! Amen!
Let all, with heart and voice, before his throne rejoice;
praise is his gracious choice. Alleluia! Amen!

Come, lift your hearts on high: Alleluia! Amen!
Let praises fill the sky: Alleluia! Amen!
He is our guide and friend; to us he’ll condescend;
His love shall never end: Alleluia! Amen!

Praise yet the Lord again: Alleluia! Amen!
Life shall not end the strain: Alleluia! Amen!
On heaven’s blissful shore his goodness we’ll adore,
singing forevermore: Alleluia! Amen!

Austin Cole Lovelace & Christian Henry Bateman | © words: public domain | music: 1964, 1995 Abingdon Press | CCLI License # 487103

* OPENING PRAYER
Loving God, we thank you for gathering us today as your people. We come with grateful hearts, remembering that through Jesus Christ, you have set us free—not for selfish ambition, but for lives shaped by love. Your grace has broken the chains of sin, fear, and separation, and your Spirit continues to lead us into the fullness of life. Open our hearts to the depth of Christ's love. Help us understand more fully the freedom Jesus has won for us and the calling he places before us: to love others with the same self-giving love he has shown to us. May your Spirit renew our minds, strengthen our faith, and inspire us to become servants of your peace and instruments of your grace. Amen.

* AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; the third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence he will come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. 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

PASTOR INSTALLATION | Holly Aragon Jones, Staff Parish Relations
Friends in Christ, today is a good day in the life of the church. We gather not just to welcome a new pastor, but to celebrate what God is already doing among us—and what God will continue to do through all of us together.

I am pleased to present to you Pastor Jad Denmark, who has been appointed to serve as pastor of Christ Church.

Pastor Jad, you have been sent to this community to preach the Word, to care for God’s people, to lead in ministry, and to help equip this church to share Christ’s love in the world. Do you accept this calling to serve among this people—to proclaim the gospel, to teach the faith, to lead with compassion, and to walk alongside this congregation in their life with Christ?

Pastor: I do, with God’s help.

People of God, will you receive Pastor Jad as your pastor? Will you pray for him, encourage him, and join him in the work of ministry? Will you offer your gifts, your time, and your presence as partners in Christ’s mission?

Congregation: We will—with God’s help.

Congregational Covenant
We are God’s people, called to be the body of Christ. We commit ourselves to love one another, to grow in faith, to serve our neighbors, and to walk together in grace. We welcome you as our pastor, and we promise to share in this ministry together.

Prayer of Installation

Gracious God, we thank you for bringing us together today. Pour out your Spirit upon Pastor Jad and upon this congregation. Give them patience when the road is long, grace when the work is hard, and joy in the journey they share. Bind them together in love, so that, in all they do, your name is honored and your kingdom made known. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Let us join together in welcoming Pastor Jad.

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
O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing | arr. Mary McDonald
Chancel Choir
O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer’s praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace! My gracious master and my God, assist me to proclaim, to spread through all the earth abroad the honors of thy name! Jesus, the name that calms my fears, that bids my sorrows cease; ‘tis music in the sinner’s ears; ‘tis life and health and peace. He breaks the power of canceled sin, he sets the prisoner free; his blood can make the foulest clean, his blood availed for me. O for a thousand tongues to sing!

* 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

SCRIPTURE

Galatians 5:1, 13-14 | New Revised Standard Version, updated edition
1 For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

13 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become enslaved to one another. 14 For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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

MESSAGE
The Liberating Love of Jesus | Pastor Jad Denmark

THE LORD’S SUPPER

THE GREAT THANKSGIVING
The Lord be with you.

And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.

We lift them up to the Lord

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

It is right to give our thanks and praise.

It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you, Almighty God, creator of heaven and earth. In the beginning your Spirit moved over the face of the waters. You formed us in your image and breathed into us the breath of life. When we turned away, and our love failed, your love remained steadfast. Your Spirit came upon prophets and teachers, anointing them to speak your Word.

And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven we praise your name and join their unending hymn:

Holy, holy, holy Lord,
God of power and might,
heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.

Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ. At his baptism in the Jordan your Spirit descended upon him and declared him your beloved Son. With your Spirit upon him he turned away the temptations of sin.Your Spirit anointed him to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, and to announce that the time had come when you would save your people. He healed the sick, fed the hungry, and ate with sinners. By the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection, you gave birth to your Church, delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made with us a new covenant by water and the Spirit. When the Lord Jesus ascended, he promised to be with us always, baptizing us with the Holy Spirit and with fire, as on the Day of Pentecost.

On the night in which he gave himself up for us, he took bread, gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said: "Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me."

When the supper was over he took the cup, gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said: "Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving, as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us, as we proclaim the mystery of faith.

Christ has died;
Christ is risen;
Christ will come again.

Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here, and on these gifts of bread and cup. Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ, that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood and empowered by the gifts of the Spirit.

By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world, until Christ comes in final victory, and we feast at his heavenly banquet. Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy Church, all honor and glory is yours, almighty God, now and for ever. Amen.

And now with the confidence of the children of God, let us pray together:

THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed by 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, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.

You do not need to be a member of Christ Church or a United Methodist to come to the table. Christ himself is host and welcomes all. If you cannot come forward, please know that someone will bring the bread and cup to you.

GATHERING AT THE LORD’S TABLE

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

all Eternal God, we give you thanks for this holy mystery in which you have given yourself to us. Grant that we may go into the world in the strength of your Spirit, to give ourselves for others, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

* HYMN OF COMMITMENT
O How I Love Jesus | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 170 (verses 1,2,3)
There is a name I love to hear, I love to sing its worth;
it sounds like music in my ear, the sweetest name on earth.

refrain O how I love Jesus, O how I love Jesus,
O how I love Jesus, because he first loved me!

It tells me of a Savior’s love, who died to set me free;
it tells me of his precious blood, the sinner’s perfect plea. refrain

It tells of one whose loving heart can feel my deepest woe;

who in each sorrow bears a part that none can bear below. refrain

* 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
July Celebration! | Phil Lehenbauer
Chuck Stanley, organ

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Join us next Sunday, when we begin the series, Beloved, with the message, Taken, based on Luke 3:21-22, Isaiah 43:1-4, and Ephesians 1: 3-6.

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