A love that is available only from God the Father.
A call to worship.
Themes
The love of God the Father • The love of Jesus Christ the Son • Divine presence • Worship • Mutual indwelling • Unity • Spiritual community • Christ's mediating presence
Although your love, Father, will never be lost, we never want it to become cold.
Scripture reading
John 15:9
This call to worship1 is a word that Jesus spoke to His disciples to comfort them. It brings us to the quiet center of Jesus' own love—unshakeable, unshadowed. We’re invited to receive that love, and to reflect it back in worship and in life.
As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Now remain in My love.
Prayer
Father, although in Heaven, You are here because Your Spirit dwells in Your assembly, and because Jesus is here, as promised, when we gather in Your name. We’re told that we know You, Father, because we know Him. And we know Him because it is hard not to— His love continues and continues and continues. We’re surrounded by it; we’re wrapped up in it. It always remains. It’s never variable. There’s no shadow in it. Father, we prize Your love. We value it. We want to always remember it and imitate it. We want our love to reflect it. We want to love You as much. We want to love Your people as much. We want to love the Gospel as much. We want to love Your desires and Your will for us as much. And so we’re here to express that love and that desire, in our gathered worship, as You’ve asked us to. Although Your love, Father, will never be lost, we never want it to become cold. And so we’ve come together again as Your assembled people to experience again a love that is available only from You, through Your Son, and through Your assembled people. In His name, the name of Jesus, Who perfectly and completely and fully expresses Your love, Amen.
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This call to worship was given to the small assembly of Christians that gathered in Pathway Church, Beaverdam, Michigan, on August 29, 2021.