The uncontainable God of exuberance.

A call to worship.

Themes

The God who speaks • God’s exuberance • God’s Word • Jesus is the Truth • Jesus is the faithful and true witness

God’s words are not words and sentences about Himself; His Word is Himself. His Word brings Himself to us — not information to us. In Jesus, who is His Word, He delights to meet with us and to be with us.

Scripture reading

Revelation 3:14

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This call to worship is from the book called Revelation. In the third chapter of this book, there’s a letter written to a physical, local assembly of believers, like ours here in Beaverdam¹. And that letter starts with this sentence, a sentence about Jesus Christ.  

These are the words 
of the one who is the Amen, 
the faithful and true witness, 
the ruler of God’s creation.  

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Prayer

Father in heaven, 
great is your Word. 
It isn’t that you happen 
to be able to speak. 
Instead, 
it is of your very nature 
to speak. 

You cannot be… word-less, 
because the Word is God. 

You are an uncontainable God of 
exuberance 
and abundance 
who cannot be anything but 
communicative, 
expansive 
and outgoing. 

Father, 
your words are not words and sentences about you; 
your Word is you. 
Your Word brings you to us — 
not information to us. 
This morning, 
we haven’t gathered here 
to come away 
with more information 
about you. 
Instead, 
in Jesus, 
who is your Word, 
you delight to meet with us 
and to be with us. 
And here we are,
gathered here 
to be with you. 

And as Jesus promised, Father, 
it is he that is here, 
in the center of our meeting —
not words appearing 
for a moment on screens;
not words preached 
and then forgotten. 
It’s your Word — 
the one who is the Amen — 
who is steady and unchangeable 
in all his purposes and promises,
who is true 
and certain 
and faithful.

In Him, Father, 
there is no conjecture, 
or guess-work.
And everything that he affirms 
is true;
And everything that he promises 
is certain. 
He is the source of all certainty and truth. 
He is the faithful and true witness, 
who speaks what He knows, 
and testifies to what He has seen — 
whose testimony of you to us 
is to be received 
and fully believed, 
and whose testimony of us to you, Father, 
will be fully believed 
and regarded. 

And he is the Beginning of your creation — 
the first-born from the dead. 
And he has raised up dead souls — 
us, here today — 
to be a living temple and church 
to himself.

This is why we are here. 
We gather around
The Amen. 

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1. This call to worship was given to the small assembly of Christians that gathered in Pathway Church, Beaverdam, Michigan, on Sunday, October 3, 2021.