Instrumental Meditation

The Call To Worship
(By the leader) "The Lord is in his holy temple; Let all the earth keep silence before him." Amen.

The Instrumental Prelude
(People reverently silent)

Scripture: Romans 4:13-25 (NRSV)
The promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherents of the law who are to be heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation. For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to adherents of the law but also those who share the faith of Abraham (for he is the father of all of us, as it is writ…