A Liturgy based on Five Solas
Sola Scriptura : Scripture alone
Pastor: All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
All: I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word. (Psalm 138:2)
Solus Christus: Christ alone
Pastor: He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. (Colossians 1:13-18)
All: For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men—the testimony given in its proper time. (1 Timothy 2:5-6)
Sola Gratia: Grace alone
Pastor: In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. (Ephesians 1:7-8)
All: But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! (Romans 5:15)
Pastor: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
Sola Fide: Faith alone
Pastor: Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. (Romans 5:1-2)
Soli Deo Gloria: Glory To God alone
Pastor: So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)
All: To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen. (Revelation 1:6)
Pastor: For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen. (Romans 11:36)
Consider following up with the singing of “In Christ Alone” by Keith Getty & Stuart Townend, or “To God Alone be the Glory” by Aaron Shust.
You can here “To God Alone” here:
http://sjbrown58.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/to-god-alone-be-the-glory-sdg/
Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version, Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of International Bible Society
Who is seeking who here?
November 10, 2009 at 7:00 am · Filed under Commentary, Scripture
The People seek:
Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice. – 1 Chronicles 16:10 & Psalm 105:3
Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always. – 1 Chronicles 16:11
Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, O God of Jacob. Selah – Psalm 24:6
One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple. – Psalm 27:4
My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, LORD, I will seek. – Psalm 27:8
But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation always say, “The LORD be exalted!” – Psalm 40:16
O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. – Psalm 63:1
Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always. – Psalm 105:4
I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. – Psalm 119:10
God Seeks:
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. – John 4:23
Does God want us to seek him?:
Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you. – Psalm 9:10
The LORD looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. – Psalm 14:2 & Psalm 53:2
I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me. – Proverbs 8:17
The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; – Lamentations 3:25
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. – Hebrews 11:6
Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart. – Psalm 119:2
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. – Matthew 6:33
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. – Matthew 7:7
For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. – Matthew 7:8
Indeed we should be seeking God; and yes, he seeks us as well; as a matter of fact – He seeks us from birth, while we are being formed in the womb.
God found me…
I once was lost, but not am found, was blind but now I see. – John Newton
Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version, Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of International Bible Society
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