This week’s sermon is from Matthew 2:1-12 and covers the story of the magi visiting Jesus. This week’s worship was based off of a Wesleyan covenant service, so the sermon went along with that in the sense that it was to encourage us to choose to follow Jesus as opposed to those false rulers in our lives. After the message and before communion we did this covenant renewal:
RENEWAL OF COVENANT
Let us commit ourselves to Christ as his servants. Give yourselves to him, that you may belong to him.
Let me be your servant, under your command. I am no longer my own, but I am yours.
Do you renounce the spiritual forces of wickedness, reject the evil powers of this world, and repent of your sin?
I do.
Do you confess Jesus Christ as your Savior, put your whole trust in his grace, and promise to serve him as your Lord?
I do.
God requires that you shall put away your idols.
From the bottom of my heart, I renounce them all. I give my heart to you Jesus Christ and I promise it to no other.
Through Christ, God has offered to be your God again, if you would let him.
Before all heaven and earth, I acknowledge you as my Lord and God. I take you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for my portion, and vow to give up myself, body and soul, as your servant.
Christ has many services to be done. Some are more easy and honorable, others are more difficult and disgraceful. Will you deny yourself? Will you be obedient?
Lord, put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will. Put me to doing, put me to suffering. Let me be used by you, or set aside by you, exalted for you or brought low by you. Let me be full, let me be empty. I freely give all of myself to you, my Lord and my God.
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