Welcome!
Central Baptist is open for in-person worship but will continue to live-stream the service through the embedded video.
Fully vaccinated people may attend without masks. Unvaccinated worshippers, including all children between 2 and 12, must be masked.
Weather permitting we will be worshipping outdoors, in this call all people may be unmasked but we continue to require social distancing.
Order of Worship
Prelude
Welcome
Announcements
Call to Worship
Let us worship God, our light and our salvation.
The Lord is the stronghold of our lives.
We desire to live in God’s house
and to seek God in his holy temple.
We have come with shouts of joy,
to sing and to make music to the Lord.
Let us worship God in spirit and in truth.
Teach us your ways and make straight our paths in this hour of worship and always.
—based on Psalm 27; John 4:23
Worship Song, #33 "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise"
Verse 1
Immortal invisible God only wise
In light inaccessible hid from our eyes
Most blessed most glorious the Ancient of Days
Almighty victorious Thy great name we praise
Verse 2
Unresting unhasting and silent as light
Nor wanting nor wasting Thou rulest in might
Thy justice like mountains high soaring above
Thy clouds which are fountains of goodness and love
Verse 3
To all life Thou givest to both great and small
In all life Thou livest the true Life of all
Thy wisdom so boundless Thy mercy so free
Eternal Thy goodness for naught changeth Thee
Verse 4
Great Father of glory pure Father of light
Thine angels adore Thee all veiling their sight
All praise we would render O help us to see
'Tis only the splendor of light hideth Thee
Liz Wagley | Walter Chalmers Smith
© Words: Public Domain
Music: 2005 Wagley, Liz (Admin. by Elizabeth G. Wagley)
For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com
CCLI License # 468823
Opening Prayer
Passing the Peace (Internet Edition)
Old Testament reading - Numbers 5:5-8
Prayer Time
New Testament reading - 1 John 1:5-2:2
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Gospel Reading - Luke 6:47-49
Meditation, “A People Who Listen”
Worship Song, #713 "Seek Ye First"
Verse 1
Seek ye first the kingdom of God
And His righteousness
And all these things
Shall be added unto you
Allelu alleluia
Verse 2
Ask and it shall be given unto you
Seek and ye shall find
Knock and the door
Shall be opened unto you
Allelu alleluia
Karen Lafferty
© 1972 CCCM Music (Admin. by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.)
Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing (Admin. by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.)
For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com
CCLI License # 468823
Benediction
September Benevolence - Eastern University
Our mission focus for September is Eastern University. Many in our church community have a direct connection to the university and we have been blessed in the past with participation of students and faculty in our worship services. Your donation helps to keep tuition costs low and provide services for the students.
Eastern University is a nationally-ranked Christian university that integrates faith, reason and justice for its 3,100 students. Located near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the university offers a wide array of undergraduate, graduate, seminary, professional, and international programs. Eastern is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA and has an interdenominational Christian student body, faculty and administration.
Choir Rehearsal Resumes
Tuesday, September 28th at 7:30 pm.
Rehearsal is in-person and open to all who would like to come and sing whether or not you can be with us on Sundays. We will be preparing anthems to use as our Virtual Choir songs as well as anthems to sing live on a specific Sunday.
Masks will be needed for rehearsals, some singer's masks have been purchased for you. It's been LONG time and I'm looking forward to singing with you!
Afghan Refugee Support
Covenant Presbyterian Church will be helping First Presbyterian Church of Bordentown with their aid to Afghan refugees at Maguire Air Force Base. You can help by purchasing needed items from the list and bringing them to Covenant Presbyterian and their Deacons will take them to Bordentwon through Sunday, September 26. You can also Make a Financial Donation online or writing a check to "First Presbyterian Church-Bordentown" entering "Afghan Refugees" in the memo line, and mailing it to 435 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown, NJ 08505-2004. They will use 100% of every donation to purchase items from the list provided by the Joint Base.
Click "Give Now" button in the upper, right-hand corner of the home page and scroll down to "Afghan Refugee Fund."
Volunteer Chaplain Aides
Volunteer Chaplain Aides are needed throughout the Virtualize Health System in Burlington and Camden Counties. There are openings for trained lay visitors every day of the week. Following a training and orientation process, an Aide may donate two to four hours of each week to visit patients by phone, offering them compassion and spiritual comfort. Once Visitation is available again in our hospitals, these same volunteers would be welcome to visit out patients in the hospital after some additional training.
To find out if volunteering is for you, please call or email for an information package with details of the training and the process to become a volunteer at any of our facilities.
For more information in regards to volunteering at Virtua Burlington, Virtua Marlton, Virtua Mr. Holly, and Virtua Voorhees please contact Chaplain Marge McGinley, at 609. 914. 6365. or send an email to mmcginley@virtua.org
American Baptist Churches of New Jersey - Annual Session 2021
September 27 - October 7
The 2021 Annual Session’s theme is Kindness: Choose - Cultivate - Practice is an opportunity for clergy, pastors, church leaders, and congregation members to strengthen the ministries of our congregations by gathering, learning, and growing together.
Due to the uncertainties that the pandemic has created, ABCNJ believes the kind thing to do is to offer our Annual Session online one more year. There will still be many opportunity to learn through webinars, celebrate ministries throughout the region, and come together for a virtual Saturday morning worship service.
Registration of $40 includes the cost for all Annual Session webinars, Saturday events, and a copy of In Defense of Kindness, a book by this year’s keynote speaker.
The annual 2021 session’s keynote speakers will include: Rev. Dr. Bruce Reyes-Chow In defense of Kindness, Rev. Dr. Mia Chang Cultivate Kindness, Rev. Joe Gratzel Choose Kindness, Rev. Dr. Kadia Edwards Practice Kindness. For more information on these webinars and for registration, click the button above.