FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

A Place To Belong

Fourth SUNDAY OF LENT

Humiliation ON THE WAY

Sunday, March 6th, 2016 11:00 a.m.

In the Heart of Saskatchewan’s Capital City

www.firstbaptistregina.ca

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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

Prayer of the Day: Grant, we beseech You, our Father, that recalling the humiliation of Your Son, Jesus, and knowing that He received what we deserved, we may become a humble and grateful people. This we ask through the same Jesus, who together with You and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

Ushers: Greeters: Gordon Magel (Head Usher) Sanctuary: Susan Cowen Rick Roland Balcony: Diane Zimmer Elevator: Barb Ziolkowski

Deacon on Duty: AV Ministry: Vi Maeers Murray Wolfe

Service of Worship Sunday, March 6th, 2016 Fourth Sunday of Lent

11:00 a.m.

*Indicates congregation is invited to stand as able*

WE GATHER AS GOD’S PEOPLE

Music for Gathering Mark Anderson

Opportunities for Life and Service Joel Russell-MacLean

Morning Chimes Mark Anderson

*The Introit “We Take the Cross of Jesus Christ” Congregation (Tune-Ellacombe, #59)

We take the cross of Jesus Christ in ashes on our face. This ancient symbol made in dust reminds us of His grace.

We beg for mercy from our Lord, to cleanse us deep within. We know ourselves, our faulty lives, our tendency toward sin.

Welcome Joel Russell-MacLean

Call to Worship Invocation

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WE APPROACH GOD

Reflective Moment “Agnus Dei” Congregation Alleluia! Alleluia! For the Lord God Almighty reigns.

Alleluia! Alleluia! For the Lord God Almighty reigns.

Alleluia! Holy, Holy are You Lord God Almighty

Worthy is the Lamb, worthy is the Lamb

You are holy! Holy are You Lord God Almighty

Worthy is the Lamb, worthy is the Lamb

Amen.

Prayer of Confession John Nelson Assurance of Pardon

*Hymn of Praise “O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus” #211

Children’s Blessing Joel Russell-MacLean (The children will come forward during the singing of this hymn and

will go to the lower hall following the children’s moment for their own worship.)

Gift of Music

WE LISTEN TO GOD

Scripture Reader: John Nelson Old Testament Lesson: Isaiah 53:8-12 (O.T. pg. 684)

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 22:18-23 Leader: They divided My clothes among themselves

and for My clothing they cast lots.

Congregation: But You, O Lord, do not be far away!

Leader: Deliver my soul from the sword, my life from the power of the dog!

Choir: Save me from the mouth of the lion!

Leader: From the horns of the wild oxen You have rescued me.

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All: I will tell of Your name to my brothers

and sisters; in the midst of the congregation I will praise You.

*Gloria Patri #623 Congregation 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.

New Testament Lesson: John 19:16b-24 (N.T. pg. 113)

Leader: This is the word of the Lord! People: Thanks be to God!

Sermon “Humiliation on the Way” Mark McKim

THE WORD OF GOD CELEBRATED

*Hymn of Approach “Man of Sorrows, What a Name” Congregation (Baptist Federation Hymnal #88)

“Man of Sorrows,” what a name

For the Son of God who came Ruined sinners to reclaim!

Alleluia! what a Saviour.

Bearing shame and scoffing rude, In my place condemned He stood;

Sealed my pardon with His blood;

Alleluia! what a Saviour.

Guilty, vile and helpless we;

Spotless Lamb of God was He;

“Full atonement!” can it be? Alleluia! what a Saviour.

Gift of Music “The Last Supper” Sanctuary Choir

Call to Supper Mark McKim

The Great Thanksgiving

Minister: The Lord be with You.

People: And also with You.

Minister: Lift up your hearts!

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People: We lift them up to the Lord, our God.

Minister: Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God.

People: It is right to give thanks and praise.

Minister: It is right, always and everywhere, to give thanks to You, O

Lord, Holy Father, almighty, everlasting God, because in Your love You have acted across centuries to set Your people free. We are

astonished at the humility of Your Son Jesus, who became one of us in order that we might be set free from slavery to sin, death and the

devil. Therefore with the angels, the faithful departed and the whole church around the world we praise and magnify Your name saying:

All: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of power and might: Heaven and earth are full of Your glory. Glory be to You, O Lord most high.

Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is Jesus who came and will come again in the name of the Lord!

Minister: Loving God, through Your goodness we have this bread

and wine. Make of them true signs of the body and blood of Christ, and accept, we pray, our offering of ourselves, fully and completely

to You, as together we proclaim the great and wonderful mystery of our faith:

People: Christ has died! Christ is risen! Christ will come again!

Prayer for the Bread Hilary Ryan Prayer for the Wine Len Pauls

WE RESPOND TO GOD

*Hymn of Response “And Can It Be?” #203

Call to Prayer Mark McKim Prayers of the People

The Lord’s Prayer Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name.

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into

temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

Our Gifts & Offerings Mark Anderson Benediction Mark McKim

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*Choral Benediction “O Spirit of God” Congregation (Tune: “My Jesus I Love Thee”, Gordon)

O Spirit of God, O so vibrant and free, Surprise and surround us, unite us to be

One people of earth who respond to Your call To go, as we’ve gathered, with Good News for all!

Music for Departing Mark Anderson (In keeping with the nature and purpose of Lent, please withhold your applause at the

conclusion of the Music For Departing. This week J.S. Bach’s “Come, Sweetest Death”).

If you desire prayer for yourself or another person, please come to the front

west pew during the “Music for Departing.” The deacon-on-duty will be there

available to pray with/for you.

“A TIME FOR FRIENDS” You are all invited to take the opportunity to join us in the lower hall for coffee, tea,

juice, cookies and fellowship.

March 6th: Marg & Marvin Fuller, Kevin & Julie Rich

February 28th, 2016 Worship Attendance

Morning Worship Service 205

SPRING CONGREGATIONAL MEETING This meeting will be held on Sunday, March 13th, immediately following the morning worship service.

The Agenda for the meeting, including the financial report, is available in the east and west foyers. Please be sure to pick a copy up to read over prior to the meeting.

1. EASTER ALLELUIA – SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 7:00 p.m. ONLY TWO WEEKS – The Story of Easter, told through bells*choirs*congregational singing*instrumental/vocal solos*special readings. Come and hear Exaltation, JuBELLation, Sanctuary Choir & Friends, Christa Walsh, Karen Martin, John Nelson, Mark Anderson and guest violinist Kara Seno (Luther College High School), Mark your calendars! Invite your friends to this much anticipated FBC outreach ministry. Contact Pastor John for more information.

KITCHEN EXTRAS: Please check the table downstairs after service, to claim any dishes or storage containers left behind.

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ACHIEVERS’ LUNCHEON THURSDAY, March 24

th AT 11:55 a.m.

**OUR GUEST SPEAKER IS HIGHLY SENSITIVE TO FRAGRANCES , PLEASE REFRAIN FROM WEARING SCENTED PRODUCTS MAR. 24

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Favourite Food*Fabulous Fellowship*Delightful Devotions Check out our Achievers’ website: www.achieversregina.ca

Cost: $13.00 Menu: Ham, scalloped potatoes, salad, vegetables, buns, dessert & drink. Speaker: Angela Fraser – Regina General Hospital Chaplain. Topic: “The Paths of Life” Angela came to Regina at age 18 to attend the University of Regina and has remained here since that time. She and her husband, Byron, met through Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship activities and have been married for 27 years. They have two adult sons and one daughter-in-law. Angela currently serves as a Hospital Chaplain with both Living Skies Spiritual Care and the Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region.

Looking back on nearly half a century of life, Angela finds it fascinating and encouraging to see how the hand of God has guided her, and how He continues to give guidance today. From northern England to southern Saskatchewan, from the classroom to the board room to the hospital rooms of the patients she visits, God has set her on different paths during her life – a life which she considers to be an amazing journey.

QUESTION: If people miss an ACHIEVERS’ LUNCHEON after having said they will be attending are we committed to paying for those missed meals?

Answer: Yes, reservation numbers are phoned into Patience Catering on the Tuesday noon of the Thursday luncheon. Either those who cancelled, or the ACHIEVERS’ LUNCHEON account are responsible to pay those meals.

Plan to attend and bring a friend or two with you.

Contact: John Nelson (306-359-1450 ext 223), or the church office (306-359-1450 ext. 221) for information.

Anticipation….Celebration...Humour…Inspiration…Enlightenment. Vibrancy….Excitement….Reconnection….Spirituality

Tear off and place in offering plate or call any of the above contacts. Achievers’ Luncheon

Name_______________________________________________________

Number attending______________________________________________

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By now you may be aware that there is, once again, an active Youth Group at First. There is much more to know about them and their activities.

Our first Youth Group in many years has been reading through the Gospel of John together and learning to pray and sing together.

Given the diversity of our group, some of the kids have been doing some interesting things for the first time………

- first rodeo - first time skating - first time tobogganing - first s’mores over a camp fire - first experiences with house pets - first games: four on the couch, dutch blitz, spoons

This is a warm and welcoming group of young people. They have made our time together a safe and hospitable place to be. Let’s keep them in our prayers.

Friday, Mar 11: Glow in the Dark Bowling! Meet at Golden Mile Bowling Friday, Mar 18: Girls Night Out/Boys Night Out

CANADIAN BAPTIST MINISTRIES (CBM) NEWS

CBM Missionaries in Cameroon: Dan & Melody Grove work with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Cameroon. Prayer that they be an encouragement to their Cameroonian colleagues as they share in the work together. Praise God for the recording of Luke in the language of Bafanji!! Pray that it will soon be in the hands of the people there and that many will come to know Jesus. Pray that people (inside and out of the churches) will have a hunger for God's word, and for the growth of the literacy programs in each of the villages. Pray for the translators in each village, for unity among the teams, wisdom as they translate, and health and protection for them and their families.

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HOSPITALITY SUNDAY

o The plan is to do one Hospitality Sunday for

each of the next few months; to develop a sense of

comfort at each level, and then move it up a notch

in terms of outreach.

o March - invite a good friend that has not been to your home before

o April - invite someone you know somewhat, but would like to know better

o May - invite someone you don’t know very well

o June - invite someone who is new to you

o Then carry this into summer months

o July - encouraged to invite someone new or a visitor; perhaps if you’ve been

the recipient of an invitation and are now ready to invite someone yourself,

with a partner/mentor to assist

o August - invite someone new or a visitor;

o September - invite a person under age 30 (welcome to students)

o October & November – MeetUps and small groups

“Music For Passiontide”: Join the Luther Bach Choir for their 2016 Passion Sunday concert on Sunday, March 20th at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, 1861 McIntyre Street. The concert features guest instrumentalists, and our guest choir Campion Schola Vocal Ensemble, along with Valerie Hall, conductor and Organist. We invite you to begin your Holy Week discipline with this concert of devotional music by J.S.Bach, Faure, Weelkes, Ippolitof, Sigurbjornsson, and others. A freewill offering will be taken and street parking is free. For more information, please contact: Jonathan Achtzehner, director, Luther Bach Choir, Luther.Bach.Choir@uregina.ca

Randy and Esther would like to thank Heather Russell-MacLean for organizing our baby shower. They also wish to express their thanks to all the people who attended, the gifts and the generous contributions to our group gifts.

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BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE (BWA) NEWS The BWA is the largest organization of Baptists in the world. Our church is affiliated with BWA through our membership of Canadian Baptists of Western Canada, which in turn is part of Canadian Baptist Ministries. Here are some recent news items from BWA. The current President of the BWA is Rev. Neville Callum, from Jamaica.

From the BWA President: I continue to be intrigued by a report that emerged in the wake of the Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church, October 4-25, 2015. The report alleges that…near the start of the synod, 13 cardinals…delivered a letter to Pope Francis expressing their concern….about "how the church going forward should interpret and apply the Word of God, her doctrines and her disciplines to changes in culture." The cardinals’ concern was informed by a certain reading of the experience of some churches outside the Catholic family. This is what they said: "The collapse of liberal Protestant churches in the modern era, accelerated by their abandonment of key elements of Christian belief and practice in the name of pastoral adaptation, warrants great caution in our own synodal discussions…." By what criteria does one evaluate whether “liberal Protestant churches” have collapsed? What key elements of Christian belief can these churches be said to have abandoned? Is it true that some churches have used pastoral adaptation as the basis for changing their fundamental beliefs? Whatever we make of the cardinals’ claims, it seems to me that the church needs to hear a stark warning in what they voice. Yet, we should not fail to recognize the complexity of the process by which we can hear the voice of God as we seek to relate the teaching of Scripture to the vexed issues of contemporary life. First, we should note that discerning the mind of Christ is not simply about a Christian taking the counsel that is given in the Bible and applying it directly to a particular issue of concern. One reason for this is that, in this individualistic world, discernment of the voice of Christ is best done in community with other Christians. God can speak to each of us in the privacy of our place of prayer. But we must test what we believe we are hearing against the wider sense of the believing community. Of course, this is a principle that was firmly advocated by the earliest Baptists and it has been affirmed in several other Christian World Communions….Another reason why discerning God’s mind is a complex process is that we do not come to the process of applying biblical teaching to issues of the day with a tabula rasa. Instead, we come to the issues with our minds flooded with all sorts of ideas. Serious Christians who apply biblical insights in the process of decision making may wish to admit that among the things they bring to the process of decision-making are the values formed in them in their early development at home, school and church. They also bring the traditions of

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biblical interpretation and the body of social teaching that they have learned in their church. Yet, another reason why the interpretive task is a complex affair is that, in God’s freedom, believers may receive “more light and truth” issuing from God’s Word than they earlier experienced. Of course, every text of Scripture needs to be read in its context. Furthermore, each text of Scripture needs to be read in the light of the whole of Scripture. Moreover, because God has witnesses in every place and every culture, God may choose to speak to us through human culture and history as well. Still, there are times when the values of culture are antithetical to what our faith teaches….

Thankfully, one thing about Baptists have made consistent affirmation: once the church has discerned the normative teaching of Scripture, whatever is inconsistent with this is an unacceptable foundation for Christian praxis….[the letter presented by the cardinals] mentioned “the Word of God [and the church’s] doctrines and disciplines” as sources for the norms enshrined in the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. They would also concur with Baptists on the importance of reading Scripture in the light of the reality of Christ. Even so, the extent of diversity that marks the social teaching of the churches today – even when they claim priority commitment to the Lord to whom Scripture bears faithful witness – is disconcerting. Because God is Lord of history, we can be assured that, in all that is happening, “God is working [God’s] purpose out.” Yet, a return to a situation of greater consensus would be so very welcome. Who would deny that relativism hurts the witness of the church?

Baptists in South Africa: The Bantu Baptist Association was formed in 1927 and became the Baptist Convention of South Africa in 1965. BCSA's mission "is to develop and proclaim a holistic, Afrocentric, and participatory understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ and thereby equip its constituencies to facilitate the dynamic transformation of societies." South African theology professor Louise Kretzschmar says "the Baptist Convention of South Africa (BCSA), has sought both to develop and live out a more holistic, biblical understanding of the Christian faith and its social implications…the emphases of the Convention [are] on the renewal of theological education, leadership development, church development, black economic empowerment, and national reconciliation clearly reveals its holistic understanding of the Christian faith. “Through national workshops, regular contacts with the other Baptist groups, and working together with these groups to host Baptist World Alliance meetings, in 1998 and the Baptist World Congress in the same city in 2015 the BCSA has worked to bring unity and reconciliation among all South African Baptists, who, sadly, became divided on racial and linguistic lines in the 1960’s.

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MONDAY 7:30 P.M. VIVACE REHEARSAL – LOWER HALL

TUESDAY 10:00 A.M. STAFF MEETING – BOARD ROOM 1:30 P.M. CANADIAN BIBLE SOCIETY – LOWER HALL 5:15 P.M. TNT (BYOM) – LOWER HALL 6:00 P.M. ADULT DISCUSSION – LIBRARY 6:00 P.M. JUBELLATION - SANCTUARY 7:00 P.M. CONSIDERING BAPTISM – BOARD ROOM

WEDNESDAY 8:00 A.M. PRAYER BREAKFAST – LOWER HALL 10:00 P.M. ACHIEVERS’ BIBLE STUDY – BOARD ROOM

THURSDAY 7:00 P.M. SANCTUARY CHOIR - SANCTUARY

FRIDAY 7:00 P.M. YOUTH GROUP – HOME OF JOEL RUSSELL-MACLEAN

SUNDAY 9:30 A.M. LEARNING FOR LIFE – VARIOUS AREAS 11:00 A.M. MORNING WORSHIP SERVICE – SANCTUARY 12:00 P.M. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING – LOWER HALL 2:00 P.M. AFTERNOON WORSHIP SERVICE – SANCTUARY

Preparing For Next Sunday: Scripture Lessons March 13th

Old Testament Lesson Responsorial New Testament Lesson

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH STAFF Rev. Dr. Mark G. McKim, Sr. Minister (ext. 222) Sound Room (ext. 228)

Rev. John Nelson Jr., Assoc. Minister (ext .223) Rev. Dr. George Baxter, Minister Emeritus

Rev. Joel Russell-MacLean, Assoc. Minister (ext.224) George McKenzie, Custodian

Krista Johnstone, Financial Administrator (ext. 225) Dr. Mark Anderson, Organist

Erin Angus, Administrative Assistant (ext. 221) Christa Walsh, Pianist

DIACONATE/TRUSTEES

Annabel Robinson Chair Vi Maeers Member

Eleanor Russell Member

Rosemary Ward Secretary Jennifer Bisson Member

Derrick Bellows Treasurer Laureen Snook Member

Esther Wiens Member Erwin Ziolkowski Honourary

FIRST KAREN BAPTIST CHURCH STAFF

Rev. Zabiak Cung Biaka (ext. 226) Rev. Eh Tha Wah (ext. 226)

Pastor Pusay Ly (ext. 226)

OUR MINISTRY PARTNERSHIPS

Youth For Christ (James Clifford) 347-1900 First Baptist Place 359-0859

CONTACT

First Baptist Church 306-359-1450 2241 Victoria Avenue, Regina SK, S4P 0S4

First Baptist Church Fax Number 306-352-3338 E-mail: main_fbcregina@sasktel.net

www.firstbaptistregina.ca

OFFICE HOURS

Monday to Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Friday Closed