Songs for Sunday, November 16, 2025 @ Christ Community Church

Tomorrow is the Lord’s day, and I’m excited!

Plus, it’s baptism Sunday at Christ Community tomorrow — a day when we celebrate a visible proclamation of faith and the public confession of our hope: JESUS is LORD! And while we get to watch this, we are reminded that baptism itself doesn’t save us but instead illustrates the saving work of Jesus in the lives of those He saves.

Paul gives us a clear picture of this in Romans 6:4:

We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Baptism is a symbol of union with Christ — we go under the water as a picture of His death and burial and rise out of the water as a picture of His resurrection. When a believer participates in baptism, he or she procaims that “Jesus died for me, Jesus rose for me, and by faith in Him, I now walk in newness of life!” It’s a public testimony that Jesus saves and that He has brought us from dead in our sins to alive in Christ (Ephesians 2:1-5).

Watching these new believers being baptized will give us a picture of the gospel. We will also read a presentation of the gospel in our worship time in Titus 3:3-7:

3For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. 4But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to His own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 6whom He poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7so that being justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

This passage shows both who we are and what God has done:

  • Who we are: sinners enslaved, lost, angry, guilty, unable to save ourselves
  • What God did: “He saved us” — not because of our goodness, effort, or religious zeal and “not because of works done by us in righteousness
  • How He saves: “according to His own mercy”, giving us new birth and new life through His Holy Spirit
  • Who we are after salvation: “justified by His grace” — declared righteous — and “heirs according to the hope of eternal life”

And we’ll see this gospel a third way as John opens up Hebrews and points us to Jesus in the preaching of His Word.

So, come tomorrow.

Come rejoice with those being baptized.

Come remember the mercy of God.

Come sing of His grace and see His salvation on display.

And make sure above all you come to Jesus.

Here are our Scriptures and songs:

  • Scripture | Titus 3:3-7 —

3For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. 4But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to His own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 6whom He poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7so that being justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

  • Scripture | Romans 6:3-4 —

3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

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