Second Presbyterian Church

Second Presbyterian Church Oil City

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Order of Service Oct 11, 2026@11am Eastern

Second Presbyterian Church Oil City, Pennsylvania
October 11, 2026 20th Sunday After Pentecost

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Call to Worship (based on Psalm 106)
L/ Give thanks and praise to our God for God is good and God’s love endures forever.
P/ Blessed are those who walk with justice and remain faithful to God. How could we recount all that God has done and is doing still?
L/ Remember us Lord and save us. Let us be counted among your chosen people and shout with praise.
P/ We have sinned as our ancestors did; We have been like those in Egypt that did not even consider your miracles nor call upon your name. But you, O God, saved us anyway. Shouts of thanks be ever on our lips.
L/ Save us O Lord our God and gather us from among the nations. Teach us to know your love and cry out a loud Amen to all you bring.

Hymn of Praise: # 276 Christ is Made the Sure Foundation

Confession and Assurance
L/ Let us take a moment of silence to reflect on our need for forgiveness…
P/ Precious Lord, we come before you and confess that we sin. We would rather dictate to you what we desire than to give up our desires to follow you. We would rather think that we choose you and are in charge than to face the fact that you chose us and bind us together into your people. Forgive us and open our hearts to be filled with your Spirit. Transform our stubborn and selfish hearts into ones that flock to your banquet. Teach us to be your people bringing your love and grace as you heal this world and restore it all in your glory.
L/Hear these words of scripture: “The peace and wholeness of God which passes all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4: 7) I declare that in Christ we are forgiven and remade as God’s own people.

We Offer Our Tithes of Time, Talent, and Resources
Special Music Pam Keverline
Hymn: Praise God from Whom All Blessing Flow

Passing of the Peace

Children’s Chat Tammy Botts

Reading Scripture
Prayer for Illumination
Old Testament: Isaiah 25: 6-9
New Testament: Matthew 22: 1-14
Sermon “Elektos” Rev. Dr. Tim Harmon

Affirmation of Faith: (Scot’s Confession, 1560, PCUSA Book of Confessions, 3.16)
All/ As we believe in one God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, so we firmly believe that from the beginning there has been, is now, and to the end of the world shall be one Kirk, that is to say one company and multitude of persons chosen by God, who rightly worship and embrace Christ by true faith, united by Christ Jesus who is Himself the Head of the Kirk, even as the body is the spouse. This Kirk is catholic, that is universal, because it contains all ages, realms, nations, and tongues, be they of the Jews or of the Gentiles; all who have communion and community with God the Father, and the Son Jesus Christ, and is sanctified by the Holy Ghost. It is therefore called a communion of saints who, as citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem, have the fruit of all the innumerable benefits of having one God, on Lord, one faith, and one baptism. This Kirk is invisible, known only to God who alone knows the elect, those who rest in God, those here now contending with Jesus against evil, and those that shall arise in future generations. There is neither life nor salvation apart from Jesus as it is the Father’s election that saves and not the manner of life nor the religion that is professed nor anything mere humans can do but the love of God which brings salvation.

Special Music Pam Keverline

Prayers of the People
Lord’s Prayer (using debts, debtors)

Doxology “Glory Be to the Father…”

Prayer of Thanksgiving from our Reformed Tradition
L/ O gracious God Eternal, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, to you is given eternal praise because it hath pleased you to enlighten our minds by your gospel. Grant us to live and die in the truth which thou hast sent from heaven. Preserve us from error, within and without the Church. Look not on what the world deserves when it refuses your Light but let the knowledge of your name and the gift of true faith bring the recovery of our senses. Forget our sins and remember thy promises. Cause those who minister in your name to grow in wisdom, zeal, discretion, and all the other gifts that are necessary to re-establish thy house. Complete the number of the elect and come soon Lord Jesus. Open our mouths in true and loud praise. (Theodore of Beza, 1593, Reformer in Geneva)

Benediction

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