Welcome to our virtual service!
We’re really glad you can join us for this service. Everything you need for the service is on this webpage. Simply press the red play button on each of the videos as you come to them. You might like to print out the service sheet below and if you have children under the age of 14 with you – there are activities for them which you can also download below.
Today’s service sheet can be downloaded here
Today’s resources for E Kids can be found here
The thinking behind the song choices is explained in italics
WELCOME
Watch the video of Richard’s welcome.
Our opening song encourages us that anyone can come to God through Jesus, no matter what they’ve done
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BITESIZE
Richard interviews Ruth and Thulasi about their first few months as doctors.
In the Bible God promises he treats everyone who trusts in him with his grace, that is his kindness to people who don’t deserve it. We celebrate that grace in our next song.
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For the next part of our service play the video below.
BIBLE READING read by Celia Butler – Ephesians 2:1-10
2:1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
BIBLE TALK from Rich Adams
Talk outline:
1. Look at what you were
2. Look at what has happened to you
3. Look at how this is possible
Our next song celebrates God’s grace to those who believe in Jesus.
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PRAYERS
Church member Abby leads us in prayer.
Our closing song tells the story of what God has done for everyone whose trust is in Jesus.
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CLOSING PRAYER from Richard Hopkins
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