new members guide
This guide was prepared to acquaint you with and to assist you to participate in the Order of Service.
The Prelude (Please Stand)
The Doxology (Please Stand)
“Praise God from whom all blessings flow” (Bow head and follow Bulletin)
Call to Worship (Please Stand and follow Bulletin)
The Opening Hymn (Please Stand and follow Bulletin or Hymnal)
The Prayer (Please Be Seated
The Prayer Chant (Found in Bulletin)
“Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” Or “He is Lord”
Selection from Choir (Found in Bulletin or Hymnal)
Responsive Reading (Please Stand and follow Bulletin)
Hymn #69: “From All that Dwell Below the Skies”
From all that dwell below the skies, Let thy Creator’s praise arise.
Let thy Redeemer’s name be sung, through every land by every tongue.
Eternal are thy mercies, Lord; Eternal truth attends thy word; Thy praise
Shall sound from shore to shore; Till suns shall rise and set no more.
The Decalogue (Please Stand as the Decalogue is stated In Its Entirety)
OR
The Decalogue Abridged (See Verses with * and Shading)
*Leader – And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God,
who brought thee out of the land of Eqypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt
have no other gods before me.
*People - Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hears to keep this law.
Leader – Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image, nor the likeness
Of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water
Under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for
I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
The children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and
Showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
People - Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hears to keep this law.
Leader – Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the
Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
People - Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hears to keep this law.
Leader – Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou
Labor and do all they work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God:
In it thou shalt not do any work, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor
thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six
days the Lord hath made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and
rested on the seventh day: Wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it.
People - Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hears to keep this law.
My soul be on thy guard,
Ten thousand foes arise;
And hosts of sins are pressing hard
To draw thee from the skies.
Leader – Honor thy farther and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon
the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
People - Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hears to keep this law.
Leader – Thou shalt not kill.
People - Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hears to keep this law.
Leader – Thou shalt not commit adultery.
People - Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hears to keep this law.
Leader – Thou shalt not steal.
People - Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hears to keep this law.
Leader – Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
People - Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hears to keep this law.
Leader – Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet
thy neighbor’s Wife, not his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox,
nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor’s.
People - Lord, have mercy upon us, and write these laws upon our hears.
*Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to Thee!
E’en though it be a cross That raiseth me;
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer my God, to Thee!
Nearer to Thee! Amen.
*Leader – Hear what Christ, our Saviour saith: Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with all thy should, and with all thy mind. This is
the first and great Commandment. And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself. On these two Commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
*All – Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the
Beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen. (Please be seated)
Selection (Found in Bulletin or Hymnal)
Announcements (Found in Bulletin)
Worship… Tithes/Offering (March of Tithers to Alter when called) (Ushers pass collection Basket)
Offertory Response (Please Stand)
“All things come of these, O lord, and of thine own-Have we given thee. Amen.
Selection (Found in Bulletin or Hymnal)
The Welcome (Visitors Please Stand When asked)
The Sermonic Hymn (Found in Bulletin or Hymnal)
The Sermon
The Invitational Hymn (Please Stand) (Found in Bulletin or Hymnal)
The Apostles’ Creed (Please Stand)
I believe in god the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ,
His only Son, our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin
Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried. The third day he arose
from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God, the Father Almighty:
from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy spirit, the church
Universal, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sin, the resurrection of the body and life
Everlasting. Amen.
The Doxology (Remain Standing)
“Praise God From Whom All Blessings…”
Praise God from who blessings flow, praise Him all creatures here below; praise Him above ye
Heavenly hosts, Praise Father, son and Holy Ghost. Amen.
The Benediction (Remain Standing)
The Postlude (Please be Seated)