WELCOME TO WORSHIP | ONE SERVICE
10am | sunday | july 9, 2023

PRELUDE | Led by Jason Campbell, director of music ministry 

Believe for it | CeCe Winans, Dwan Hill, Kyle Lee & Mitch Wong 

They say this mountain can't be moved

They say these chains will never break

But they don't know you like we do

There is power in your name

We've heard that there is no way through

We've heard the tide will never change

They haven't seen what you can do

There is power in your name

So much power in your name

Move the immovable

Break the unbreakable

God we believe God we believe for it

From the impossible

We'll see a miracle

God we believe

God we believe for it

We know that hope is never lost

Oh for there is still an empty grave

God we believe no matter what

There is power in your name

So much power in your name

You are the way when there seems to be no way

We trust in you God you have the final say

Move the immovable

Break the unbreakable

God we believe

God we believe for it

From the impossible

We'll see a miracle

God we believe

God we believe for it

God we believe for it

© 2021 Vessl Songs | Big Buddy Music | A Wong Made Write Publishing | Integrity's Praise! Music | Little Pooky's Music | CCLI License # 487103 

WELCOME

WAYS TO CONNECT | christchurchfl.org/ways2connect
Please see below.

CALL TO WORSHIP | Judy O'Donnell, liturgist
In one Spirit, we were all baptized into one body.

The body does not consist of one member but of many.

If one member suffers, all suffer together.

If one member is honored, all rejoice together.

We are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

Baptized by the Spirit, we claim our membership in the body of Christ. Amen.

* OPENING HYMN

The Body has so Many Parts | AZMON

The Body has so many parts with each its role to fill,

Yet all are called to preach the Word, to do as God would will.

The Spirit baptized all in grace, for service is our task.

Our God redeems each child with love, much more than we could ask.

The feet will walk, the lips will sing, the arms will bless and feed; commissioned all to follow Christ, to preach in word and deed.

We all are part of Jesus’ work, our hands and feet his own,

each with its duty to fulfill, none can exist alone.

Stephen M. Fearing | music: public domain | text: copyright © 2016 Stephen M. Fearing. www.stephenmfearing.com. | CCLI License # 487103 

* OPENING PRAYER 
Loving God, you give each person gifts to benefit the whole of creation. Help us claim our gifts and use them to bring liberation, peace and justice to a hurting world. May this time of worship strengthen and refresh us and fill us with such joy that we cannot help but share your love with everyone around us. Though we are very different people, with many different talents and gifts, make us one in your Spirit, that we may be your ministers in the world. Amen. 

AFFIRMATION OF FAITH

A Modern Affirmation

(leader) Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is the one true church, apostolic and universal, whose holy faith let us now declare:

(all) We believe in God the Father, infinite in wisdom, power, and love, whose mercy is over all his works, and whose will is ever directed to his children’s good. We believe in Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of man, the gift of the Father’s unfailing grace, the ground of our hope, and the promise of our deliverance from sin and death. We believe in the Holy Spirit as the divine presence in our lives, whereby we are kept in perpetual remembrance of the truth of Christ, and find strength and help in time of need. We believe that this faith should manifest itself in the service of love as set forth in the example of our blessed Lord, to the end that the kingdom of God may come upon the earth. Amen. 

* SONG OF WORSHIP
How Great is our God | Chris Tomlin, Ed Cash & Jesse Reeves

The splendor of the King

Clothed in majesty

Let all the earth rejoice

All the earth rejoice

He wraps Himself in light

And darkness tries to hide

And trembles at his voice

And trembles at his voice

How great is our God

Sing with me

How great is our God

And all will see how great

How great is our God

And age to age he stands

And time is in his hands

Beginning and the end

Beginning and the end

The Godhead three in one

Father Spirit Son

The Lion and the Lamb

The Lion and the Lamb

Name above all names

Worthy of all praise

My heart will sing

How great is our God 

© 2004 Rising Springs Music | Vamos Publishing | worshiptogether.com songs | Wondrously Made Songs | CCLI License # 487103

PRAYER FOR PASTOR PEYTYN 

Blessing of Pastor Peytyn Tobin, followed by...

Pastor Nathan:

Brothers and sisters, siblings in Christ,

as a people committed to participate in the ministries of the Church

through the giving and sharing of your time, talent, and treasures

will you who celebrate this new beginning and

support and uphold Pastor Peytyn in these ministries?

Congregation:

We reaffirm our commitment to support you with our time, talents, and treasures.

Pastor Nathan:

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger

Congregation:

who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation.

Pastor Nathan:

Let us pray.

Almighty God, you still call us to go into your service

and spread the message of the love, hope, and joy of your Son.

Bless richly, we pray, your servant Pastor Peytyn’s entrance into our fellowship.

Fill her with the power of your Holy Spirit

and let her find with us an open door for the Word.

We also pray for your church on earth.

Equip us all with a spirit of willingness,

that we with courage can witness about you

by the profession of our mouths and through our way of living.

Grant us all to partake in your strength and joy,

so that we can enter into the anxiety and suffering of the world,

to be radiating and make alive that hope which Christ gives.

All this we dare to pray of you;

for you are to us the Father of mercy and the God of all grace;

you are the Son, the Savior and the Redeemer;

you are the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Helper and the Giver of life.

Blessed be you. Amen.

Pastor Nathan:

And now friends, let us pray together this congregational prayer:

Congregation:

Lord God, bless the ministries of your Church.

We thank you for the variety of gifts you have bestowed upon us.

Draw us together in one Spirit,

that each of us may use our differing gifts as members of one body.

May your word be proclaimed with faithfulness,

and may we be doers of your word and not hearers only.

As we who have died and risen with Christ in baptism

gather at his table and then scatter into the world,

may we be one in service to others,

in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Adapted from: “An Order for the Celebration of an Appointment,” alt. from The Book of Common Prayer, The Episcopal Church, 1979. Public domain. Prayer “Almighty God, you still call us” by Ole Borgen, Copyright © 1992 UMPH.

CHILDREN’S MESSAGE | Hazem Farraj, director of children and student ministries

SCRIPTURE

I Corinthians 12:12-27 | The Message

12-13 You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts—limbs, organs, cells—but no matter how many parts you can name, you’re still one body. It’s exactly the same with Christ. By means of his one Spirit, we all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives. We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we entered into a large and integrated life in which he has the final say in everything. (This is what we proclaimed in word and action when we were baptized.) Each of us is now a part of his resurrection body, refreshed and sustained at one fountain—his Spirit—where we all come to drink. The old labels we once used to identify ourselves—labels like Jew or Greek, slave or free—are no longer useful. We need something larger, more comprehensive.

14-18 I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn’t just a single part blown up into something huge. It’s all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. If Foot said, “I’m not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don’t belong to this body,” would that make it so? If Ear said, “I’m not beautiful like Eye, transparent and expressive; I don’t deserve a place on the head,” would you want to remove it from the body? If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it.

19-24 But I also want you to think about how this keeps your significance from getting blown up into self-importance. For no matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you are a part of. An enormous eye or a gigantic hand wouldn’t be a body, but a monster. What we have is one body with many parts, each its proper size and in its proper place. No part is important on its own. Can you imagine Eye telling Hand, “Get lost; I don’t need you”? Or, Head telling Foot, “You’re fired; your job has been phased out”? As a matter of fact, in practice it works the other way—the “lower” the part, the more basic, and therefore necessary. You can live without an eye, for instance, but not without a stomach. When it’s a part of your own body you are concerned with, it makes no difference whether the part is visible or clothed, higher or lower. You give it dignity and honor just as it is, without comparisons. If anything, you have more concern for the lower parts than the higher. If you had to choose, wouldn’t you prefer good digestion to full-bodied hair?

25-26 The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church: every part dependent on every other part, the parts we mention and the parts we don’t, the parts we see and the parts we don’t. If one part hurts, every other part is involved in the hurt, and in the healing. If one part flourishes, every other part enters into the exuberance.

27 You are Christ’s body—that’s who you are! You must never forget this.

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

MESSAGE

Guardians of the Galaxy: Together is Better | I Need You | Pastor Nathan Adams

The Takeaway We sometimes as Christians have to resist the urge to live a life of solitude and to do our own thing. God gave us all strengths to use together with the greater body. In recognizing that we need each other to achieve a greater goal, we must band together as one.

OFFERING
worshiping through the offering of our lives and gifts.
• GIVE online at christchurchfl.org/give
• Text GIVE to 954.880.3885

• Scan the QR code on the GIVE side of the card in the pew to quickly go to the Giving web page

• Mail a check to Christ Church, 4845 NE 25th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308

• Collection plate

• Drop tithes and offerings in the wooden boxes as you leave worship

Christ Church is a congregationally supported ministry. We thank you for your faithfulness as we support one another and reflect the love, hope and joy of Jesus to our community.

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.

MUSIC MINISTRY

Awesome God | Rich Mullins

Chancel Choir; Wes Kassulke, piano

Our God is an awesome God, he reigns from heaven above, with wisdom, power and love, our God is an awesome God. And when the sky was starless in the void of the night, our God is an awesome God. He spoke into the darkness and created the light. And the judgment and wrath, he poured out on Sodom, mercy and grace he gave to us at the cross. I hope that we have not too quickly forgotten, our God is an awesome God!

Rich Mullins, Alan Moore | © 1988 BMG Songs, Inc. This arrangement © 1999 by BMG, Songs, Inc. | All rights reserved | Used with permission under One License #A-726973 

* 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 

* HYMN OF COMMITMENT

We all are one in Mission | WEBB 
We all are one in mission; we all are one in call,

our varied gifts united by Christ, the Lord of all.

A single great commission compels us from above

to plan and work together that all may know Christ’s love.

We all are called for service, to witness in God’s name.

Our ministries are different; our purpose is the same:

To touch the lives of others by God’s surprising grace,

so every folk and nation may feel God’s warm embrace.

Now let us be united, and let our song be heard.

Now let us be a vessel for God’s redeeming word.

We all are one in mission; we all are one in call,

our varied gifts united by Christ, the Lord of all.

© Words 1986 Hope Publishing Company | words: Rusty Edwards | music: public domain 

* SENDING FORTH 

MUSIC FOR CLOSING

July Celebration! | Phil Lehenbauer

Chuck Stanley, organ

Phil Lehenbauer | © 2013 Phil Lehenbauer | Used by Permission

* please stand in body or spirit.

Join us next Sunday, when we continue the series Guardians of the Galaxy: Together is Better with the message We got This? We are all In, based on Joshua 6:1-27. 
Takeaway  As we continue to band together, we come together to fight a common foe. As we band together, we are given the mission and are able, with each other, to accomplish that mission. 

WAYS TO CONNECT | christchurchfl.org/ways2connect

CONNECT CARDS We want to connect with you. Please fill out a digital connect card and tell us how we can pray with you and help you be part of the ministries that speak to you. You’ll find the digital connect card at christchurchfl.org/connectcard 

WORSHIP | FORT LAUDERDALE resuming July 16 

SUNDAY 9am praise service | 11am traditional service | fort lauderdale campus, 4845 ne 25th ave. 

GROW

MORNING PRAYERS weekdays | 7:30am Begin your weekdays praying with your church family at 7:30am on the Christ Church Facebook page, @christchurchfl. If you can’t be online at 7:30, a recording of the morning prayer is available on Facebook. Morning prayers take a break on church and federal holidays. 

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP Do you feel called to make Christ Church your church and spiritual home? Learn more and sign up by contacting Pastor Nathan Adams, nadams@christchurchfl.org.

MORE THAN CONQUERORS prayer group third thursdays | 6:15pm; field | 6:30pm; fellowship halls Bring joys and concerns of your life, our community and our world to the feet of Jesus with others who are devoted to intercessory prayer. Feel free to attend to receive or share in prayer. Weather permitting, time together will begin by walking the prayer stations on Christ Church Field. At 6:30pm, the group will gather in the Fellowship Halls to share and pray about our collective joys and concerns. Join us for either or both parts. All are invited. The next gathering will be Thursday, July 20.

CONNECT

SUMMER TOGETHER Today, July 9, we welcome new Associate Pastor Peytyn Tobin in a combined service at 10am, followed by a reception in the Fellowship Halls. On Sunday, July 16, we return to 9am Praise and 11am Traditional worship services, with an Online Community Gathering on Zoom at 12:15pm. Also, mark your calendar for Tuesday, August 22, when you can let your church family do the cooking and have some fun. Learn more and keep up with plans at christchurchfl.org/summer 

ONLINE COMMUNITY GATHERING sunday | july 16 | 12:15pm Join us for a Summer Together gathering for folks who are part of our online community. Whether you worship online, or you join us for morning devotionals, or any other online opportunity, we'd love to see you. Pastor Nathan looks forward to meeting you. Get the link at christchurchfl.org/summer

ANTI-RACISM TASK FORCE sunday | august 6 | 12:15pm Gather with the Anti-Racism Task Force the first Sunday of each month, right after the 11am worship service in the Fellowship Halls, to talk about current events and plan future activities.

GET TO KNOW PASTOR PEYTYN Associate Pastor Peytyn Tobin is the newest member of our church family. We’ve watched introductory videos in worship, and we released a bonus video this week. If you’ve missed any of the videos or would like to watch again, go to the website,  christchurchfl.org/pastorpeytyn

SHARED MEALS You are invited to share a meal and community twice a week on the Parkway Campus. On Wednesday at 5pm, a shared dinner is served to all who come. On Sunday at 9am, breakfast is shared. All are invited to enjoy great conversation over lovingly prepared food. 

SERVE

LUNCH & MOBILE HEALTH CLINIC saturday | july 22 | 1-3pm Christ Church, our Anti-Racism Task Force and the TaskForce Fore Ending Homelessness will host a lunch and mobile health clinic on the Fort Lauderdale Campus. All are invited to lunch and the mobile health services. Volunteers are needed to prepare and serve lunch and to greet guests. If you can help, contact Pastor Nathan, nadams@christchurchfl.org

LOVE IN ACTION FORT LAUDERDALE Cooks are needed to help prepare meatloaf dinners on the first Thursday of each month in the Fort Lauderdale Campus kitchen. The team works 2-4pm to prepare a meal that is served at Hope Central, 1100 N. Andrews Ave. A volunteer is also needed to place the order for food and ensure its delivery to the Fort Lauderdale kitchen before the first Thursday of each month. If you can help, please send an email to info@christchurchfl.org 

BLESSINGS FOOD PANTRY NEEDS VOLUNTEERS The Blessings Food Pantry needs volunteers to hand out food on Fridays and to stock shelves on Mondays. The pantry is open 9-11:30am Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Friday volunteers should plan to arrive at 8:30am. It’s a great way to get to know our neighbors near the Parkway Campus, 100 NE 44th Street, Deerfield Beach. If you’d like more information, send an email to info@christchurchfl.org

JOIN THE WELCOME TEAM Do you enjoy greeting your church family and welcoming guests? The Welcome Team would be a great place for you to serve. Welcome Team members also help serve communion and collect the offering. Some welcome team members also serve as ushers and greeters for memorial services and other special events. Linda Bajkowsky coordinates the team and would love your help. Serving with the Welcome Team is a great way to get to know your church family. Sign up at christchurchfl.org/serve

THE FRUITFUL FIELD The organic garden on the Parkway Campus will welcome volunteers one Saturday a month during the summer. Stay tuned for a date in July. christchurchfl.org/parkway 

BE PART OF THE WORSHIP TECH TEAM Put your tech skills to work for God. If you would like to be part of the team that helps run the cameras and visuals for worship every Sunday, send an email to info@christchurchfl.org

HEALING

FAITH CARING TEAM mondays | 1pm The Faith Caring Group reflects and addresses the need for caring and assistance as well as grief support. The group meets on Zoom every Monday of the month, except for the second Monday when members have lunch at the Fort Lauderdale Olive Garden. For more information, send an email to info@christchurchfl.org with your contact information and a Faith Caring Group leader will get back to you.