12/11/2022
PORT ROYAL - MEXICO ECO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
BE BORN IN US TODAY - BRINGING GUIDANCE
SUNDAY, December 11, 2022
WE GATHER IN GOD’S NAME
Prelude Music
Words of Welcome and Announcements
(Theme Verse is read aloud by the congregation) For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name’s sake you lead me and guide me. Psalm 31:3
Lighting of the Advent Wreath are spoken responsively: Wagner Family Barton’ Family
(The first and second blue or purple candles are lit.)
Reader: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. People: Amen. Reader: We light the third candle on the Advent wreath as a bright light that reminds us of the guidance we have in God’s Word and in our Savior Jesus, the Word made flesh. The prophet Isaiah spoke of a highway prepared by God, the Way of holiness: “The redeemed shall walk there” (Isaiah 35:8-9). People: Holy Child of Bethlehem, be born in us today. You were born to redeem us. Through faith in your name we walk the Way of holiness. Reader: Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). People: Holy Child of Bethlehem, be born in us today. You alone are the way of salvation. In the power of the Spirit, guide us according to the truth of your Word.
