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WHO WE ARE.

• We are a community of city-centred, gospel-focused people striving to serve and renew Toronto through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

WHO WE WELCOME.

• We welcome people of all races, ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds and faiths – both religious and irreligious.

WHO WE BELIEVE IN.

• We believe Christ is relevant to every person in every situation, and we want to help you discover him.

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GOD CALLS

CALL TO WORSHIP

—based on Luke 1:46-50

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LEADER:

Our souls magnify the Lord!

ALL:

Our spirits rejoice in God our saviour!

LEADER:

The mighty One has done great things for us!

ALL:

Holy is God’s name!

LEADER:

Let us worship God.

ALL:

For God is our Maker and our Redeemer;

from generation to generation God gives mercy.

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SONG - ONLY A HOLY GOD

(© 2016 © Farren Love And War Publishing, Integrity's Alleluia! Music, Integrity's Praise! Music, CityAlight Music. CCLI Song # 7073332)

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Who else commands all the hosts of heaven

Who else could make every king bow down

Who else can whisper and darkness trembles

Only a Holy God

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What other beauty demands such praises

What other splendour outshines the sun

What other majesty rules with justice

Only a Holy God

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Come and behold Him

The One and the Only

Cry out sing holy

Forever a Holy God

Come and worship the Holy God

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What other glory consumes like fire

What other power can raise the dead

What other name remains undefeated

Only a Holy God

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Who else could rescue me from my failing

Who else would offer His only Son

Who else invites me to call Him Father

Only a Holy God

Only my Holy God

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SONG - YOUR NAME

(© 2006 Integrity W orship Music | Integrity's Hosanna! Music. CCLI Song # 4611679)

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As morning dawns and evening fades

You inspire songs of praise

That rise from earth to touch Your heart

And glorify Your Name

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Your Name is a strong and mighty tower

Your Name is a shelter like no other

Your Name let the nations sing it louder

'Cause nothing has the power to save

But Your Name

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Jesus in Your Name we pray

Come and fill our hearts today

Lord give us strength to live for You

And glorify Your Name

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SONG - 10,000 REASONS

(© 2011 Thankyou Music, Said And Done Music, and SHOUT! Publishing. CCLI # 6016351)

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Bless the Lord O my soul

O my soul

Worship His holy name

Sing like never before

O my soul

I'll worship Your holy name

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The sun comes up it's a new day dawning

It's time to sing Your song again

Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me

Let me be singing when the evening comes

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You're rich in love and You're slow to anger

Your name is great and Your heart is kind

For all Your goodness I will keep on singing

Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find

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And on that day when my strength is failing

The end draws near and my time has come

Still my soul will sing Your praise unending

Ten thousand years and then forevermore

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GOD CLEANSES

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PRAYER OF CONFESSION

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LEADER:

Awesome and compassionate God,

you have loved us with unfailing, self-giving mercy,

but we have not loved you.

You constantly call us, but we do not listen.

You ask us to love, but we walk away from neighbors in need,

wrapped in our own concerns.

We condone evil, prejudice, warfare, and greed.

God of grace, as you come to us in mercy,

we repent in spirit and in truth,

admit our sin, and gratefully receive your forgiveness

through Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. Amen.

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ALL:

Amen.

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SILENT CONFESSION

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WORDS OF ASSURANCE

—Micah 7:18-20, NRSV

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LEADER:

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity

and passing over the transgression

of the remnant of your possession?

He does not retain his anger forever,

because he delights in showing clemency.

He will again have compassion upon us;

he will tread our iniquities under foot.

You will cast all our sins

into the depths of the sea.

You will show faithfulness to Jacob

and unswerving loyalty to Abraham,

as you have sworn to our ancestors

from the days of old.

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ALL:

Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!

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SONG OF ASSURANCE - HIS MERCY IS MORE

(© 2016 © Love Your Enemies Publishing. CCLI# 7065053.)

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What love could remember no wrongs we have done

Omniscient all knowing He counts not their sum

Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore

Our sins they are many His mercy is more

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What patience would wait as we constantly roam

What Father so tender is calling us home

He welcomes the weakest the vilest the poor

Our sins they are many His mercy is more

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What riches of kindness He lavished on us

His blood was the payment His life was the cost

We stood 'neath a debt we could never afford

Our sins they are many His mercy is more

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Praise the Lord His mercy is more

Stronger than darkness new every morn

Our sins they are many His mercy is more

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PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH AND THE CITY

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COMMUNITY LIFE ANNOUNCEMENTS

GT MEN PUB NIGHT

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EAST END PARISH

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UPTOWN PARISH

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‍PRAYER FOR THE WEEK

• STRENGTH (Isaiah 40:29-31) God renews the strength of those who wait on Him. Reflect on areas where you feel weak or weary. Pray for the Lord’s strength to sustain and uplift you in every circumstance.

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GOD COMMUNES

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SCRIPTURE READING

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Micah 7:1-20

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¹ What misery is mine!

I am like one who gathers summer fruit

at the gleaning of the vineyard;

there is no cluster of grapes to eat,

none of the early figs that I crave.

² The faithful have been swept from the land;

not one upright person remains.

Everyone lies in wait to shed blood;

they hunt each other with nets.

³ Both hands are skilled in doing evil;

the ruler demands gifts,

the judge accepts bribes,

the powerful dictate what they desire—

they all conspire together.

⁴ The best of them is like a brier,

the most upright worse than a thorn hedge.

The day God visits you has come,

the day your watchmen sound the alarm.

Now is the time of your confusion.

⁵ Do not trust a neighbor;

put no confidence in a friend.

Even with the woman who lies in your embrace

guard the words of your lips.

⁶ For a son dishonors his father,

a daughter rises up against her mother,

a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—

a man’s enemies are the members of his own household.

⁷ But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord,

I wait for God my Savior;

my God will hear me.

⁸ Do not gloat over me, my enemy!

Though I have fallen, I will rise.

Though I sit in darkness,

the Lord will be my light.

⁹ Because I have sinned against him,

I will bear the Lord’s wrath,

until he pleads my case

and upholds my cause.

He will bring me out into the light;

I will see his righteousness.

¹⁰ Then my enemy will see it

and will be covered with shame,

she who said to me,

“Where is the Lord your God?”

My eyes will see her downfall;

even now she will be trampled underfoot

like mire in the streets.

¹¹ The day for building your walls will come,

the day for extending your boundaries.

¹² In that day people will come to you

from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,

even from Egypt to the Euphrates

and from sea to sea

and from mountain to mountain.

¹³ The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants,

as the result of their deeds.

¹⁴ Shepherd your people with your staff,

the flock of your inheritance,

which lives by itself in a forest,

in fertile pasturelands.

Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead

as in days long ago.

¹⁵ “As in the days when you came out of Egypt,

I will show them my wonders.”

¹⁶ Nations will see and be ashamed,

deprived of all their power.

They will put their hands over their mouths

and their ears will become deaf.

¹⁷ They will lick dust like a snake,

like creatures that crawl on the ground.

They will come trembling out of their dens;

they will turn in fear to the Lord our God

and will be afraid of you.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you,

who pardons sin and forgives the transgression

of the remnant of his inheritance?

You do not stay angry forever

but delight to show mercy.

¹⁹ You will again have compassion on us;

you will tread our sins underfoot

and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

²⁰ You will be faithful to Jacob,

and show love to Abraham,

as you pledged on oath to our ancestors

in days long ago.

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SERMON

Stephen Ahn

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SONG OF RESPONSE - GOODNESS OF GOD

(© 2018 Bethel Music Publishing / Fellow Ships Music / So Essential Tunes / SHOUT! Music Publishing / Alletrop Music. CCLI# 7117726.)

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I love You Lord

Oh Your mercy never fails me

All my days

I’ve been held in Your hands

From the moment that I wake up

Until I lay my head

I will sing of the goodness of God

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All my life You have been faithful

All my life You have been so, so good

With every breath that I am able

I will sing of the goodness of God

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I love Your voice

You have led me through the fire

In darkest nights

You are close like no other

I’ve known You as a father

I’ve known You as a friend

I have lived in the goodness of God

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Your goodness is running after, it’s running after me

Your goodness is running after, it’s running after me

With my life laid down, I’m surrendered now, I give You everything

Your goodness is running after, it’s running after me

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COMMUNION
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PRAYER FOR THOSE SEARCHING FOR TRUTH

Lord Jesus, you claim to be the way, the truth, and the life.  Grant that I might be undaunted by the cost of following you as I consider the reasons for doing so. If what you claim is true, please guide me, teach me, and open me to the reality of who you are.  Give me an understanding of you that is coherent, convincing and that leads to the life you promise.  Amen.

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PRAYER OF BELIEF

Lord Jesus Christ, I admit that I am weaker and more sinful than I ever dared admit, but through you I am more loved and accepted than I ever dared hope.  I thank you for paying my debt on the cross, taking what I deserved in order to offer me complete forgiveness. Knowing that you have been raised from the dead, I turn from my sins and receive you as my Saviour and Lord.  Amen.

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GOD COMMISSIONS

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BENEDICTION

—based on 2 Corinthians 4:6, NIV

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May almighty God,

who caused light to shine out of darkness,

shine in our hearts, cleansing us from all our sins,

and restoring us to the light of the knowledge of God’s glory, in the face of Jesus Christ, our saviour. Amen.

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PRAYER

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