In consideration of others and as guests of West High School . . .
- Please silence your phone and watch.
- Name tags are a great start to a meaningful connection. Thanks for wearing one.
- If you’d like to give an offering, there are two baskets in the back or you can use the “Giving” tab at the bottom-right corner of the mobile app.
- Thank you for sitting close and singing loud. Let’s bring our full engagement and best attitude as we worship together.
PREPARATION FOR WORSHIP
The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
“I the Lord search the heart
and test the mind,
to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love,
I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers,
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith, so as to move mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:1-2
For while we were still weak,
at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
For one will scarcely die for a righteous person —
though perhaps for a good person
one would dare even to die —
but God shows his love for us in that
while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:6-8
You call me Teacher and Lord,
and you are right, for so I am.
If I then, your Lord and Teacher,
have washed your feet,
you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
John 13:13-14
“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
WELCOME & CALL TO WORSHIP
Because your steadfast love is better than life,
my lips will praise you.
So I will bless you as long as I live;
in your name I will lift up my hands.
Psalm 63:3-4
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SCRIPTURE READING
Now Abel was a keeper of sheep,
and Cain a worker of the ground.
In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord
an offering of the fruit of the ground,
and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock
and of their fat portions.
And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering,
but for Cain and his offering he had no regard.
So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.
The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry,
and why has your face fallen?
If you do well, will you not be accepted?
And if you do not do well,
sin is crouching at the door.
Its desire is contrary to you,
but you must rule over it.”
Cain spoke to Abel his brother.
And when they were in the field,
Cain rose up against his brother Abel
and killed him.
Then the Lord said to Cain,
“Where is Abel your brother?”
He said, “I do not know;
am I my brother’s keeper?”
And the Lord said, “What have you done?
The voice of your brother’s blood
is crying to me from the ground.
And now you are cursed from the ground,
which has opened its mouth
to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
When you work the ground,
it shall no longer yield to you its strength.
You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
Cain said to the Lord,
“My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Gen.4:2b-13
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Jesse Tree Registration (deadline Sunday): This Sunday, October 6th, is the last day to sign up for the ornament exchange portion of the Jesse Tree. A craft guide with examples will be provided to assist – all craft levels welcome. Day assignments will happen next week, leading to an ornament exchange on Sunday, November 10th. It’s a wonderful way to prepare our hearts during Advent. Sign up here.
Children’s Ministry Parents Prayer Class (10/13): Parents, join us before worship service at 8:30am to learn helpful and practical tips about praying for your child. Childcare and breakfast will be provided. Please register.
Men’s Social (10/10): Calling all men! Next Thursday at 7:30pm, come hang out and enjoy some fellowship at the Monkish Brewery in Torrance. Get more details here.
OFFERTORY
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MONTHLY FINANCIAL UPDATE
After September 2024
YTD 2024 Projected Giving: $488,770
YTD 2024 Actual Giving: $481,101
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If you would like to give electronically, you may do so here or in the mobile app, select “Giving” at the bottom-right corner in the app. If you would like to give via cash or check, to King’s Cross Church, there are white baskets in the back of our worship space.
SERMON
“Am I My Brother’s Keeper?”
11 For this is the message
that you have heard from the beginning,
that we should love one another.
12 We should not be like Cain,
who was of the evil one
and murdered his brother.
And why did he murder him?
Because his own deeds were evil
and his brother’s righteous.
13 Do not be surprised, brothers,
that the world hates you.
14 We know that we have passed out of death into life,
because we love the brothers.
Whoever does not love abides in death.
15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer,
and you know that no murderer
has eternal life abiding in him.
16 By this we know love,
that he laid down his life for us,
and we ought to lay down our lives
for the brothers.
17 But if anyone has the world’s goods
and sees his brother in need,
yet closes his heart against him,
how does God’s love abide in him?
18 Little children,
let us not love in word or talk
but in deed and in truth.
19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth
and reassure our heart before him;
20 for whenever our heart condemns us,
God is greater than our heart,
and he knows everything.
21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us,
we have confidence before God;
22 and whatever we ask we receive from him,
because we keep his commandments
and do what pleases him.
23 And this is his commandment, that
we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ
and love one another,
just as he has commanded us.
24 Whoever keeps his commandments
abides in God, and God in him.
And by this we know that he abides in us,
by the Spirit whom he has given us.
1 John 3:11-24 (ESV)
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BENEDICTION
Therefore be imitators of God,
as beloved children.
And walk in love, as Christ loved us
and gave himself up for us,
a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians 5:1-2