Sunday Service

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  1. Hello, my name is reverend Doreen Robinson and I am the pastor of pilgrim Rest A. M. E.
  2. Church located in the plate of Maryland
  3. pilgrim rest is a small church and a family oriented
  4. church with approximately 50 members consistent of 12 baby boomers,
  5. 20 gen x 10 millennials and eight gen z
  6. most are committed to the creative collaboration
  7. process of moving the church forward.
  8. Our style of worship and praise is multigenerational,
  9. where we will sometimes say the call to worship
  10. the doc's ology and hear traditional hymns as well as at other
  11. times we participate in an abbreviated contemporary style of worship service.
  12. This particular worship service will be done
  13. in a more spirit led contemporary style
  14. of worship where every song selection from the prey lead to the closing selection
  15. is intentional and that they are familiar songs that will usher us into the
  16. presence of God where we are the ready recipients of the blessings of God
  17. and can leave behind all of our cares and baggage as we enter into his presence.
  18. With genuine genuine praise,
  19. adoration and all and worship for who he is and
  20. the great things he has done and will continue to do
  21. the order of worship for the prelude for your glory by Tasha Cobbs,
  22. Leonard will be playing softly as our virtual family continues to gather
  23. for the worship service on the virtual platform.
  24. As persons continue to join us on the platform.
  25. The weekly announcements will be shown
  26. to encourage the virtual family to participate in all of the marvelous things that
  27. God is still doing despite the pandemic and the life of the church.
  28. The weekly announcements are also on our website.
  29. Following a five second countdown,
  30. we will open the service with praise and worship by the praise team Lord,
  31. You are good by Israel Holton and new Breed.
  32. This high praise song was chosen so that we can
  33. collectively shout unto God with a voice of triumph,
  34. causing every situation that we're faced with to bow down
  35. to the name of jesus as he inhabits our praises.
  36. Next, we will have our welcome by me, reverend Doreen Robinson,
  37. where I'll be extending a warm and inviting greetings so that every person who will
  38. be joining us virtually will know that we
  39. value their presence in our corporate worship experience
  40. Following the welcome,
  41. we will have our prayer by sister crest to invoke God's presence
  42. into the sacred space and to reassure everyone under the sound of her
  43. voice that God is still in the blessing business despite what's going on
  44. all around us because he is still all knowing and all powerful.
  45. Now we will have our prayer response by the liturgical dancers.
  46. They will use this time to go before God and prayer
  47. and praise through the worship of dance to a recording.
  48. Thank you bye Richard Smallwood.
  49. Today's scripture will be coming from second Corinthians chapter 47 through 10
  50. and it reads,
  51. but we have this treasure in jars of clay to show
  52. that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
  53. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed,
  54. perplexed, but not driven to despair.
  55. Persecuted, but not forsaken, struck down, but not destroyed,
  56. always carrying in the body, the death of jesus,
  57. so that the life of jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
  58. This scripture will be the text used for
  59. today's message.
  60. Now we will have our chamonix selection by the
  61. praise team still are rise by yolanda Adams.
  62. This powerful worship song was chosen to align with today's message.
  63. Today's sermon will be given by me, reverend Doreen Robinson.
  64. I will be given a brief summary of the message.
  65. The text today will be coming from 2nd Corinthians four, Chapter 4,
  66. verses seven through 10 and the title is, life is hard, but God is good.
  67. The past two years have come with many challenges that have
  68. caused many of us to be hard pressed on every side,
  69. but not crushed.
  70. We have been perplexed, but not in despair.
  71. We have been persecuted, but not abandoned, struck down, but not destroyed.
  72. In other words,
  73. if we are honest with ourselves and we are
  74. not so heavenly minded that we're no earthly good.
  75. We will not be ashamed to declare that life has been hard, but God is still good.
  76. God knows that these earthly vessels and bodies are fragile.
  77. That's why Jesus came lived died, was buried.
  78. Rose again and now sits at the right hand of God the father.
  79. So that we who believes on him shall not perish,
  80. but will be filled with his transforming power that
  81. shall truly manifest itself when life gets hard.
  82. Salvation appeal is where the musicians will play softly fred hammonds,
  83. You are the living word as I extend the
  84. invitation and persons will accept the invitation to rededicate their
  85. lives to christ to receive his healing power or to
  86. surrender their will to God's will for their lives.
  87. This is also the time in which we will encourage persons who have concerns to contact
  88. us via email called the church facebook live
  89. or instagram with their comments or questions.
  90. During the offering appeal,
  91. the praise team will be singing Byron cages Glory to your name as I make the
  92. appeal for all to participate in worshiping through
  93. their giving of their ties and offerings.
  94. The benediction is where our reverend, Doreen Robinson will say,
  95. a short prayer of blessing over the people of God as
  96. we prepare to disperse from our place of corporate worship.
  97. The closing selection will be done by the praise team.
  98. They will be ministering better by Hezekiah walker as we depart the
  99. virtual platform with the high praises of God on our lips.
  100. Amen