Brothers and Sisters,

Tonight prayer will be held at the Brown’s Barn, 3721 Quarry Road, Wake Forest.

If you follow Jesus your life patterns change. Your use of time is forever altered. Your weekends will never be the same. This is what the 3000 new Christians experienced after Peter said, “repent and be baptized.” They repented, were baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit. But that was not the end of it. They acquired a new life with new priorities. Our scripture focus on Sunday morning will be Acts 2:42-47 where we find the pattern the apostles appointed for the early church… which continues today. This is the first of other summaries of life in the early church (Ac. 4:32-37, 5:12-16).

The songs we will be singing on Sunday are,

We Gather Together

     (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srh4Phwl9Lo)

The Church’s One Foundation

   (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ECY2IIeRg8)

Reformation Hymn 

    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOmdVUX-wLw)

Speak, O Lord

    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGowfyz5yE8)

How Sweet and Awful Is the Place

    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw7zLoqEEXI)

We Gather Together
We gather together
To ask the Lord’s blessing;
He chastens and hastens
His will to make known.
The wicked oppressing
Now cease from distressing.
Sing praises to His Name;
He forgets not His own.

Beside us to guide us,
Our God with us joining,
Ordaining, maintaining
His kingdom divine;
So from the beginning
The fight we were winning;
Thou, Lord, were at our side,
All glory be Thine!

We all do extol Thee,
Thou Leader triumphant,
And pray that Thou still
Our Defender will be.
Let Thy congregation
Escape tribulation;
Thy Name be ever praised!
O Lord, make us free!

The Church’s One Foundation
The Church’s one foundation 
Is Jesus Christ her Lord
She is His new creation 
By water and the Word
From heav’n He came and sought her 
To be His holy bride
With His own blood He bought her
And for her life He died

Elect from every nation 
Yet one o’er all the earth
Her charter of salvation: 
One Lord, one faith, one birth
One holy Name she blesses, 
Partakes one holy food
And to one hope she presses 
With every grace endued

Though with a scornful wonder
Men see her sore oppressed,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distressed:
Yet saints their watch are keeping,
Their cry goes up, ‘How long?’
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song!

The Church shall never perish!
Her dear Lord to defend,
To guide, sustain, and cherish,
Is with her to the end:
Though there be those who hate her,
And false sons in her pale,
Against both foe or traitor
She ever shall prevail.

‘Mid toil and tribulation
And tumult of her war
She waits the consummation 
Of peace forevermore
Till with the vision glorious 
Her longing eyes are blessed
And the great Church victorious 
Shall be the Church at rest

Yet she on earth hath union
With God the Three in One,
And mystic sweet communion
With those whose rest is won,
O happy ones and holy!
Lord, give us grace that we
Like them, the meek and lowly,
On high may dwell with Thee

Reformation Hymn
We will trust God’s Word alone,
Where His perfect will is known;
Our traditions shift like sand
While His Truth forever stands.

We will live by faith alone,
Clothed in merit not our own;
All we claim is Jesus Christ
And His finished sacrifice.

  Glory be, glory be to God alone
  Through the church He redeemed
   and made His own.
  He has freed us, He will keep us
   till we’re safely home
  Glory be, glory be to God alone!

We are saved by grace alone –
Undeserved, yet freely shown;
No accomplishment on earth
Can achieve the second birth.

We will stand on Christ alone,
The unyielding Cornerstone;
Nations rage and devils roar,
Still He reigns forevermore!

  Glory be, glory be to God alone
  Through the church He redeemed
   and made His own.
  He has freed us, He will keep us
   till we’re safely home
  Glory be, glory be to God alone!

Speak, O Lord
Speak, O Lord, as we come to You
To receive the food of Your Holy Word.
Take Your truth, plant it deep in us;
Shape and fashion us in Your likeness,
That the light of Christ might be seen today
In our acts of love and our deeds of faith.
Speak, O Lord, and fulfill in us 
All Your purposes for Your glory.

Teach us, Lord, full obedience,
Holy reverence, true humility;
Test our thoughts and our attitudes
In the radiance of Your purity.
Cause our faith to rise; cause our eyes to see
Your majestic love and authority.
Words of pow’r that can never fail –
Let their truth prevail over unbelief.

Speak, O Lord, and renew our minds;
Help us grasp the heights of Your plans for us –
Truths unchanged from the dawn of time
That will echo down through eternity.
And by grace we’ll stand on Your promises,
And by faith we’ll walk as You walk with us.
Speak, O Lord, till Your church is built
And the earth is filled with Your glory.

How Sweet and Awful Is the Place
How sweet and awful is the place
With Christ within the doors,
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores!

While all our hearts and all our songs
Join to admire the feast,
Each of us cry, with thankful tongues,
“Lord, why was I a guest?”

“Why was I made to hear Thy voice,
And enter while there’s room,
When thousands make a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come?”

‘Twas the same love that spread the feast
That sweetly drew us in;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sin.

Pity the nations, O our God,
Constrain the earth to come;
Send Thy victorious Word abroad,
And bring the strangers home.

We long to see Thy churches full,
That all the chosen race
May, with one voice and heart and soul,
Sing Thy redeeming grace.