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WELCOME TO WORSHIP | sunday | july 12, 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
How Great Thou Art | arr. Albin Whitworth
Chuck Stanley, organ; Doug Friend, percussion

* CALL TO WORSHIP | Jeanne Deinken, liturgist
Come, people of God, and remember who you are.

We are God's beloved, created with purpose and called by grace.

Before we knew how to seek God, God was already seeking us.

Before we knew our own worth, God claimed us as precious and loved.

We gather not as strangers, but as those welcomed into God's family.

We are chosen to live in hope and to reflect God's love in the world.

Come and worship the one who calls, redeems, and sustains us.

We praise God, whose love has claimed us and whose grace will never let us go.

* GATHERING HYMN
God, Whose Love is Reigning o’er Us | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 100 (verses 1,3,4,5)
God, whose love is reigning o’er us, source of all, the ending true;
hear the universal chorus raised in joyful praise to you:
Alleluia, alleluia, worship ancient, worship new.

Holy God of ancient glory, choosing man and woman, too;
Abr’am’s faith and Sarah’s story formed a people bound to you.
Alleluia, alleluia, to your covenant keep us true.

Covenant, new again in Jesus, Starchild born to set us free;
sent to heal us, sent to teach us how love’s children we might be.
Alleluia, alleluia, risen Christ, our Savior he!

Lift we then our human voices in the songs that faith would bring;
live we then in human choices lives that, like our music, sing:
Alleluia, alleluia, joined in love our praises ring!

* OPENING PRAYER
Loving God, you have called us into being, claimed us as your own, and surrounded us with a grace that existed long before we could understand it. When fear or uncertainty threatens to define us, anchor us in the assurance that we belong to you. When we feel like we are not enough, remind us that you know us completely and still call us beloved. When life feels uncertain or overwhelming, hold us steady in your love and grace. Shape us into a people who live like your beloved—secure in your love and ready to share your grace with others. Meet us here, speak to us, and renew us, so that we may live as your people in the world. Amen.

* AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
A Statement of Faith of the United Church of Canada
We are not alone, we live in God’s world. We believe in God: who has created and is creating, who has come in Jesus, the word made flesh, to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by the Spirit. We trust in God. We are called to be the church: to celebrate God’s presence, to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope. In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us. We are not alone. Thanks be to God.

* 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
In Heaven’s Eyes | Phil McHugh
Connie Bookholt, alto

SCRIPTURE
Ephesians 1:3-6 | New Revised Standard Version, updated edition
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. 5 He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

Luke 3:21-22 | New Revised Standard Version, updated edition
21  Now when all the people were baptized and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, 22 and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.”

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

MESSAGE
Beloved | Taken | Pastor Jad Denmark

STEWARDSHIP MOMENT
Freeway Student Ministry

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

I Am His Child | arr. Moses Hogan

Chancel Choir
I may not be all that you are, I may not be a shining star, but what I am I thank the Lord for making me his child. Thank you Lord for hearing every prayer, thank you Lord for just being there, thank you, Lord for I am not worthy of your love. So don’t use me or abuse me, for I am his child. Don’t tease me, or mistreat me, for I’m still his child, you can even talk about me, but I’m still his child.

* 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 Stand Amazed in the Presence | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 371 (verses 1,4,5)
I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene,

and wonder how he could love me, a sinner, condemned, unclean.

(refrain) How marvelous! How wonderful! And my song shall ever be:

How marvelous! How wonderful is my Savior's love for me!

He took my sins and my sorrows, he made them his very own;

he bore the burden to Calvary, and suffered and died alone. (refrain)

When with the ransomed in glory his face I at last shall see,

'twill be my joy through the ages to sing of his love for me. (refrain)

Charles Hutchinson Gabriel | words & music: public domain | CCLI License # 487103

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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
Festive Postlude | Paul Fey
Chuck Stanley, organ

* please stand in body or spirit.

Join us next Sunday, when we continue the series, Beloved, with the message, Blessed, based on Matthew 5:1-12, Genesis 12:1-3 & Ephesians 1:3.

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