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WELCOME TO WORSHIP | sunday | august 9, 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
Down by the Riverside | arr. Bradley Sowash
Wes Kassulke, piano; Doug Friend, percussion

* CALL TO WORSHIP | Leigh Neely, liturgist
Come, people of God, just as you are.

We come as we are, trusting that God's love has already welcomed us.

God does not wait for us to have everything together before calling us.

God starts with who we are and leads us into who we can become.

As we are welcomed, we learn to welcome others.

We open our hearts and lives to the love of Christ.

Let us worship the God who meets us where we are and leads us where we never imagined we could go.

We worship the one who is always calling us into something new.

* GATHERING HYMN
You’ve Called us Together, O God, by Your Grace | TO GOD BE THE GLORY
You've called us together, O God, by your grace;
In grateful obedience, we've come to this place.
Our new common mission has only begun;
We're learning the blessings of serving as one.

(refrain) We are called! We are freed!
We are baptized as one.

In the church, all we need
Can be found in your Son!

With Christ to unite us, and born from above,
We witness together to your wondrous love.

We're one in the faith, and in creeds that we share,
In worship and sacraments, scripture and prayer.
We're one in our seeking to follow Christ's way,
In Spirit-led ministry, day after day. (refrain)

There's much to rejoice in, yet much to be done;
While some are excluded, we can't live as one.
May we as your churches uniting now see
That justice is needed for true unity. (refrain)

* OPENING PRAYER
Gracious and welcoming God, you meet us where we are and call us by name, not because we have earned your love, but because your love reaches out to us first. Thank you for seeing us and calling us before we have it figured out. Thank you for inviting us into a life that is always becoming new. Open our hearts to receive your grace. Teach us to extend the same welcome we have received from Christ, so that strangers become neighbors, neighbors become friends, and together we discover the joy of belonging in your family. 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
For Everyone Born | arr. Tom Trenney
Keith Parent, 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 Tedder Elementary 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

Blessed Assurance | arr. Howard Helvey

Chancel Choir
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God, born of his Spirit, washed in his blood. This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long; this is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long. Perfect submission, perfect delight, visions of rapture now burst on my sight; angels descending bring from above echoes of mercy whispers of love. Perfect submission, all is at rest; I in my Savior am happy and blest, watching and waiting, looking above, filled with his goodness, lost in his love.

* 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 19:1–10 | New Revised Standard Version, updated edition
1 He entered Jericho and was passing through it. 2 A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way.  5 When 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.” 6  So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him.  7 All who saw it began to grumble and said, “He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner.”  8 Zacchaeus 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.” 9 Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham.  10 For 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
Jesus and ... | Jesus and the Outsider | Pastor Jad Denmark

* HYMN OF COMMITMENT
O God, in Your Love | ST. DENIO
O God, in your love, you have made us unique;

In gifts and traditions, in service we seek,

In race and in culture and family design –

Diverse are the branches in Jesus the vine.

Lord Jesus, you came to bring God’s love on earth;

You welcomed the outcasts and showed us our worth.

You reached out to people whom others despised –

You said all are precious in God’s loving eyes.

So may your church welcome in loving accord

All people who want to serve Jesus our Lord.

O Spirit, unite us in Jesus the Son –

In mission and ministry, God, 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
Thine is the Glory | Albin Whitworth
Chuck Stanley, organ

* please stand in body or spirit.

Join us next Sunday, when we continue the series, Jesus and ... , with the message, Jesus and the Religious, based on Luke 7:36-50

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