Online Sunday church service

Sunday, April 19, 2026

Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Susan Booth Mack Snipes, First Reader
Robert Witney, Second Reader

Subject: DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT

Prelude

Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church

"...the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." (from St. John's Suite) by Dan Locklair
Welsh Hymn Tune Prelude: "Rhosymedre" by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Scriptural Selection

John 14:1–3, 10–21, 23 If, 25–27

Prayer

Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy
(Read in context)

Notices

Solo

Evan Bryant, Soloist of The Mother Church

God and Man

These words spake Jesus,
Holy Father, keep in Thine own name
Those whom Thou hast given me,
That they may be one,
That they may be one,
Even as we are one,
Even as we are one.

Holy Father, we Thy children
Seek today to know Thy will.
Earthly hopes are all forgotten,
Hearts are humble, pride is still.
Now in prayer, our thoughts ascending,
Heav’nward rise, in radiance blending.
In Thy light at last we see
We are one, are one in Thee.

Let us keep our Lord’s commandments,
Let us tread the path He trod,
Till we find the true atonement,
Till our lives are one in God.
Now in prayer, our thoughts ascending,
Heav’nward rise, in radiance blending.
In Thy light at last we see
We are one, are one in Thee.

Words from the Bible
Music by J.S. Bach Arr: by Katherine K. Davis
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Explanatory Note

Golden Text and Responsive Reading

Golden Text:  

I John 4:14 we
. . . we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

Responsive Reading:  

John 9:39 Jesus (to ;)
John 10:7 Verily, 9, 11, 14, 16–18, 27–30

9:39 . . . Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see;
10:7 . . . Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
30 I and my Father are one.

The Bible Lesson-Sermon, the Explanatory Note, Golden Text and Responsive Reading are from the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson, a publication copyrighted by the Christian Science Publishing Society.

Offertory and collection

Elevation by Louis Vierne

During the offertory you're invited to participate in the collection via PayPal using a PayPal account or a credit card if you do not have a PayPal account.

Scientific Statement of Being

From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p.468, line 8

Correlative Scripture

I John 3:1-3 

Benediction

Ps. 103:2, 4

Postlude

Praeludium in D, BuxWV 139 by Dietrich Buxtehude

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