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WELCOME TO WORSHIP | sunday | september 27, 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
For the Beauty of the Earth | Ron Mallory
Handbell choir

* CALL TO WORSHIP | Jeanne Deinken, liturgist
We gather today as people who have received the grace and love of God.
We come with grateful hearts, ready to receive and ready to respond.

God’s grace meets us where we are and calls us toward who we are becoming.
By grace, God changes our hearts and shapes our lives.

God’s love is not meant to remain hidden within us.

It calls us to love our neighbors, serve one another, and care for those around us.

Let us worship the God whose grace transforms us, whose love sends us, and whose Spirit empowers us.

We are here to worship, to be renewed, and to put our faith into action.

* GATHERING HYMN
Where Charity and Love Prevail | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 549 (verses 1,2,5,6)
Where charity and love prevail, there God is ever found
brought here together by Christ’s love, by love are we thus bound.

With grateful joy and holy fear true charity we learn;
let us with heart and mind and strength now love Christ in return.

Let us recall that in our midst dwells God’s begotten son,
as members of his body joined, we are in him made one.

Love can exclude no race or creed if honored be God’s name,
our common life embraces all whose maker is the same.

OPENING PRAYER
Gracious God, we give thanks for your grace and for the love you have shown us. Thank you for meeting us where we are, for accepting us as we are, and for continuing to work in our lives. Stir in us today a faith that cannot sit still. Remind us that faith is more than something we believe—it is something we must put into action. Teach us to show our faith through the love we share, the ways we serve, and the care we offer to one another. Send us from this place ready to carry your love beyond these doors and into the ordinary moments and places of this week. Amen.

* AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
all We believe in God,
Creator and giver of every good gift,
whose grace surrounds us
and is always at work within us.

We believe in Jesus Christ,
God’s love made known among us,
who calls us to a faith made visible
in love, mercy, justice, and service.

We believe in the Holy Spirit,
who gives us wisdom,
strength for the journey,
and grace to grow.

We believe faith is meant to be lived:
in the words we speak,
the choices we make,
and the way we love our neighbors.

We do not live this way to earn God’s love.
We live this way because we are already loved.

By the grace of God,
may the faith we proclaim
become the faith we practice,
and may our lives bear witness
to the love of Christ.
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
Come to Jesus | arr. Joel Raney
Handbell Choir

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
Creative Spirit for families

OFFERING
worshiping through the offering of our lives and gifts

Place offerings in the plates or wooden boxes
Give online at christchurchfl.org/give
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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

Prayer of St. Francis | Allen Pote

Chancel Choir
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, thy pardon, Lord. Where there is doubt, let there be faith. Oh, Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there’s despair, let me bring hope. Where there is darkness, let there be light, where there is sadness, let there be joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. Oh, Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. For it is in giving that we receive, and it is in pardoning that we are pardoned. And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

* 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
James 2:14–26 | New Revised Standard Version, updated edition
14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Surely that faith cannot save, can it? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? 17 So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from works, and I by my works will show you faith. 19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder. 20 Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith apart from works is worthless? 21 Was not our ancestor Abraham justified by works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and by works faith was brought to completion. 23 Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 Likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another road? 26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead.

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

MESSAGE
Faith Works | Love in Action | Pastor Jad Denmark

* HYMN OF COMMITMENT
Go Forth for God | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 670 (verses 1,2,4)
Go forth for God, go to the world in peace;
be of good courage, armed with heavenly grace,
in God’s good Spirit daily to increase,
till in the kingdom we see face to face.

Go forth for God, go to the world in peace.

Go forth for God, go to the world in love;
strengthen the faint, give courage to the weak;
help the afflicted; richly from above
God’s love supplies the grace and power we seek.
Go forth for God, go to the world in love.

Go forth for God, go to the world in joy;
to serve God’s people every day and hour,
and serving Christ, our every gift employ,
rejoicing in the Holy Spirit’s power.
Go forth for God, go to the world in joy.

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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
Praise Him with the Sound of the Trumpet | Robert Lau
Chuck Stanley, organ

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SENDING FORTH

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Join us next Sunday, as we continue the new message series, Faith Works, with the message The Power of Words, based on James 3:1–12.

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