So Great A Salvation

What does it mean for something or someone to be great or glorious? Surely greatness has to be more than being well-known. C.S. Lewis once wrote, "Glory suggests two ideas to me of which one seems wicked and the other ridiculous. Either glory means to me fame or means luminosity. As for the first sense to be famous means to be better known than other people, but the desire for fame appears to me as a competitive passion and therefore of hell rather than of heaven. As for the second who wishes to become a kind of living electric lightbulb?" So what makes the Gospel great and glorious? Why should we pay attention to it at all? Join us tomorrow in person or live on YouTube or our website as we walk through Hebrews 2.

download the order of worship

---

TCC Order of Worship, 1.17.21

WELCOME 

CALL TO WORSHIP

O Lord, our Lord,

    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.

    Out of the mouth of babies and infants,

you have established strength because of your foes,

    to still the enemy and the avenger.

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

    the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

what is man that you are mindful of him,

    and the son of man that you care for him?

Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings[b]

    and crowned him with glory and honor.

You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;

    you have put all things under his feet,

all sheep and oxen,

    and also the beasts of the field,

the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,

    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

O Lord, our Lord,

    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Psalm 8

 

Leader: Trinity Community Church, lift up your hearts

Congregation: We lift up our hearts to the Lord

CONFESSION

(Book of Common Prayer 2019)

Almighty and most merciful Father, 

we have erred and strayed from your ways like lost sheep. 

We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. 

We have offended against your holy laws. 

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, 

and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; 

and apart from your grace, there is no health in us. 

O Lord, have mercy upon us. 

Spare all those who confess their faults. 

Restore all those who are penitent, 

according to your promises declared to all people in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake, 

that we may now live a godly, righteous, and sober life, 

to the glory of your holy Name. 

Amen. 

ANNOUNCEMENT OF FORGIVENESS

This I Believe

by Ben Fielding and Matt Crocker

 

Verse 1

Our Father everlasting

The all creating One

God Almighty

Through Your Holy Spirit

Conceiving Christ the Son

Jesus our Savior

 

Chorus

I believe in God our Father

I believe in Christ the Son

I believe in the Holy Spirit

Our God is three in one

I believe in the resurrection

That we will rise again

For I believe in the name of Jesus

 

Verse 2

Our Judge and our Defender

Suffered and crucified

Forgiveness is in You

Descended into darkness

You rose in glorious life

Forever seated high

 

Bridge

I believe in You

I believe You rose again

I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord 

 

Chorus 2

I believe in life eternal

I believe in the virgin birth

I believe in the saints' communion

And in Your holy Church

I believe in the resurrection

When Jesus comes again

For I believe, in the name of Jesus

 

Holy Spirit

by Bryan Torwalt and Katie Torwalt

 

Verse 1

There's nothing worth more

That could ever come close

Nothing can compare

You're our living hope

Your presence, Lord

 

Verse 2

I've tasted and seen

Of the sweetest of loves

Where my heart becomes free

And my shame is undone

Your presence, Lord

 

Chorus

Holy Spirit, You are welcome here

Come flood this place and fill the atmosphere

Your glory, God, is what our hearts long for

To be overcome by Your presence, Lord

Your presence, Lord

 

Bridge

Let us become more aware of Your presence

Let us experience the glory of Your goodness

SERMON

Who You Say I Am

by Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan

 

Verse 1

Who am I that the highest King would welcome me?

I was lost, but He brought me in

Oh His love for me

Oh His love for me

 

Chorus

Who the Son sets free

Oh, is free indeed

I'm a child of God, yes, I am

 

Verse 2

Free at last, He has ransomed me

His grace runs deep

While I was a slave to sin, Jesus died for me

Yes, He died for me

 

Chorus 2

Who the Son sets free

Oh is free indeed

I'm a child of God, yes, I am

In my Father's house

There's a place for me

I'm a child of God, yes, I am

 

Bridge

I am chosen, not forsaken

I am who You say I am

You are for me, not against me

I am who You say I am

In Christ Alone

by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend

In Christ alone my hope is found,

He is my light, my strength, my song

This Cornerstone, this solid Ground

Firm through the fiercest drought and storm.

What heights of love, what depths of peace

When fears are stilled, when strivings cease

My Comforter, my All in All

Here in the love of Christ I stand.

In Christ alone! - who took on flesh,

Fullness of God in helpless babe.

This gift of love and righteousness,

Scorned by the ones He came to save

Till on that cross as Jesus died,

The wrath of God was satisfied

For every sin on Him was laid

Here in the death of Christ I live.

There in the ground His body lay,

Light of the world by darkness slain:

Then bursting forth in glorious day

Up from the grave He rose again

And as He stands in victory

Sin's curse has lost its grip on me,

For I am His and He is mine

Bought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death,

This is the power of Christ in me

From life's first cry to final breath,

Jesus commands my destiny

No power of hell, no scheme of man,

Can ever pluck me from His hand

Till He returns or calls me home

Here in the power of Christ I'll stand.

 

LORD’S SUPPER

 

His Mercy is More

by Matt Boswell and Matt Papa

Verse 1

What love could remember no wrongs we have done

Omniscient, all-knowing, He counts not their sum

Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore

Our sins, they are many, His mercy is more

Chorus

Praise the Lord!

His mercy is more

Stronger than darkness, new every morn

Our sins, they are many, His mercy is more

Verse 2

What patience would wait as we constantly roam

What Father, so tender, is calling us home

He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor

Our sins, they are many, His mercy is more

Verse 3

What riches of kindness He lavished on us

His blood was the payment, His life was the cost

We stood 'neath a debt we could never afford

Our sins, they are many, His mercy is more

BENEDICTION