“Grant us, even us, O Lord, to konw you, and love you and rejoice in you. … Let the knowledge of you increase in us here, that it may be full hereafter. Let the love of you grow every day more and more here, that it may be perfect hereafter; that our joy may be great in itself and full in you. … O make good your gracious promises to us, that our joy may be full.”

So prayed Augustine. Anticipating the prayer, our Lord has generously answered that very prayer: calling us together by his grace to worship, fellowship, and service together as those made alive in Christ he grows us in the knowledge of the Father, the Love of the Son and the Joy of the Spirit to the praise of his glory among the nations throughout his world.

As those who have certain knowledge of the true love of God in Jesus Christ abounding in the joy of the Spirit, let us come and worship! Let us come before his presence with rejoicing – bearing confident testimony to the watching world that our God reigns supreme over all things through our risen and reigning King.

Order of Worship for 02.22.09