Church Year: Trinity:
Date: June 7, 2009
Theme: “Common Ground in Christianity”
– 1 John 5:1-11
– Pastor: John Hein
The Order of Worship: Bulletin
Liturgy: TLH, p. 15 ff.
Hymns:
TLH 246 : Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty 
TLH 252 : We All Believe in One True God
TLH 244 : Glory be to God the Father
TLH 644 : Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow
Scripture Readings:
Isaiah 6:1-8
John 3:1-17
Theme: “Common Ground in Christianity”
1 John 5:1-11
Overcoming the World
5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. 4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Testimony Concerning the Son of God
6 This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For there are three that testify: 8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. 9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. 10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. 11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. (ESV)