New YEARS EVE service
December 31, 2009 - 7:00 p.m.
New Years Eve Service
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church
11555 N. US Highway 27
Decatur, IN 46733
NEW YEARS EVE
The Eve of the circumsion of our lord
31 December 2009
7:00 pm Worship
Opening Hymn - #733 "O God, Our Help in Ages Past"
The Order of Confession - page 184-185
service of the Word - page 186-189
Introit, Kyrie, Gloria in Excelsis
Salutation and collect - page 189
The Holy
Scriptures
Response to readings – page 190-191
the Nicene creed - page 191
Hymn of the Day - #899 "Across the Sky the Shades of Night"
The Sermon
THE OFFERTORY
The Offering
the prayer of the church - page 193
With each petition Pastor will end......” Now and in the new year, ”
Congregational response: “Lord, be with us.”
Regarding participation in the Blessed Sacrament of Christ’s True Body and Blood: Because oneness at the altar presupposes oneness in faith and doctrine, we expect that all who commune at the Lord’s altar are members in good standing of an LCMS congregation. We ask that all who commune register on a communion card. All visitors should state their home LCMS congregation. First time visitors please speak to Pastor Dreyer. Individual cups are available as you approach the altar for those desiring them.
service of the
Sacrament - page 194-198
Distribution Hymns #366, #900
Nunc Dimittis - page 199
Closing Liturgy - page 200-202
Closing hymn - #878 "Abide with Me"
For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." But you were unwilling, and you said, "No! We will flee upon horses"; therefore you shall flee away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds"; therefore your pursuers shall be swift. A thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
"Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."
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Installation of Officers will take place at the 10:30 am service on Sunday, January 3, 2010.
The Epiphany of Our Lord will be celebrated Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 7:00 pm.
Reverend John M. Dreyer, Pastor
Organist: Leanne Busick