ORDER OF SERVICE
Greeting (Adapted from 2 Corinthians 13:14)
(L) May the grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ,...the Holy Spirit be with you all.
(R) And also with you.
(L) Let we who are many join in one
heart and voice to worship the God who is
three yet one.
Announcements,
Concerns, Joys, & Opening Prayer
*Responsive
Reading (Based on
Psalm 147:1-7)
(L) How good it is to sing praises to
our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise
our Lord!
(R) The Lord builds up his people;
he gathers the exiles, he heals the
Brokenhearted and binds up their
wounds.
(L) Great is our Lord and mighty in
power; his understanding has no limit.
(R) Sing to the Lord with
thanksgiving; let us make music to our God.
*Hymn
ÒLet All
Things Now LivingÓ 554
Let all things now living A song of thanksgiving
To God our Creator triumphantly raise;
Who fashioned and made us, Protected
and stayed us,
By guiding us on to the end of our
days.
God's banners are o'er us, Pure light goes before us,
A pillar of fire shining forth in
the night:
Till shadows have vanished, All fearfulness banished,
As forward we travel from light into
Light.
By law God enforces. The stars in
their courses,
The sun in its
orbit obediently shine;
The hills and the mountains, The rivers and fountains,
The depths of the ocean proclaim God
divine.
We, too, should be voicing Our love and rejoicing
With glad adoration, a song let us raise:
Till all things now living Unite in thanksgiving,
To God in the highest, hosanna and
praise.
(L) The Father says, "You are
my child, whom I love; with you I am well pleased."
(R) How great is the love the Father
has lavished on us that we should be called
children of God, for that is what we are.
(L) The Son says, ÒI am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the
End. To
those who are thirsty I will give drink
without cost from the spring of the water
of life.Ó
(R) Everyone who drinks the water
you give, Lord Jesus, will never thirst.
Indeed, the water you give becomes
in us a spring welling up to eternal life.
(L) As the Spirit hovered over the
waters at the dawn of creation, the Spirit of God
is with us still.
(R) We have not been left as
orphans, for the Spirit of Truth lives in us that we
may live a life worthy of the Lord;
bearing fruit in every good work, as we
grow in the knowledge of God.
*Passing of the Peace (Hope,
Unity, Purpose)
The Word
Proclaimed
Prayer for
Illumination (Based on Isaiah 40:31)
Spirit of the Living God, open our
hearts and minds to your word for us today, so that we will not grow weary and
lose hope, but rather, our strength would be renewed. Amen.
Epistle
Reading
I Corinthians
9: 16-23 (page
1,781)
Gospel
Reading
Mark 1: 29-39 (page 1,553)
(L) This is the word of the Lord,
(R) Thanks be to God
Anthem
Children's
Time
Sermon
ÒJust Do Your
JobÓ
Responding to the Word
*Hymn
ÒGather Us InÓ
Here in
this place, new light is,now
is the darkness vanished away.
See, in this space, our fears and our dreamings,
Brought
here to you in the light of this day.
Gather us in - the lost and forsaken, gather us in - theand
the lame.
Call to us now, and we shall awaken, we shall arise at the sound of our name.
We are the young - our lives are a mystery,we are the old - who yearn for your face.
We have
been sung throughout all of history,
Called
to be light to the whole human race.
Gather us in - the rich and the haughty, gather us in - the
proud and the strong.
Give us aso meek and so lowly,
give us the courage to enter the song.
Here we will take the wine and the water, here we will take
the bread of new birth.
Here you shall call your sons and your
daughters, call us anew to be salt for the earth.
Give us to drink the wine of compassion, give us to eat the bread that is you.
Nourish us well, and teach us to fashion lives that are holy andthat are true.
Not in
the dark ofconfining,not in
some heaven, light years away,
but here in this place, the new light is
shining; now is the Kingdom, now is the day.
Gather us in - and hold us forever, gather us in - and make us your own.
Gather us in - all peoples together, fire of love in
our flesh and our bone.
Invitation to Stewardship & Receiving of Tithes & Offerings
Offertory
ÒFugue in C-majorÓ J.S.
Bach
*We
Give Thee But Thine Own (vs.
1-2)
*Prayer of Thanksgiving &
Lord's Prayer
Our Father who art in heaven
hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in
heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not
into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the
kingdom, and the power; and the glory, forever. Amen.
LordÕs
Supper Invitation Sharing
of Bread and Cup
Words of Institution Prayer
Send Forth
*Hymn ÒWe All Are One In MissionÓ 435
We all are one in mission,
We all are one in call,
Our varied gifts united By Christ, the
Lord of all.
A single, great commission Compels us from above
To plan and work together That all may know Christ's love.
We all are called for service To witness in God's name;
Our ministries are different, Our purpose is the same:
To touch the lives of others By
God's surprising grace
So every folk and nation May feel
God's warm embrace.
Now let us be united And let our song be heard.
Now let us be
a vessel For God's redeeming word.
We all are one in mission,
We all are one in call,
Our varied gifts united By Christ,
the Lord of all.
*Charge and
Benediction
*Congregational
Response ÒSong of HopeÓ 432
May the God of hope go with us every
day,
Filling all our lives with love and
joy and peace.
May the God of justice speed us on
our way,
Bringing light and hope to every
land and race.
Praying, let us work for peace,
Singing, share our joy with all,
Working for a world that's new,
Faithful when we hear Christ's call.
Postlude ÒA Mighty Fortress Is Our GodÓ arr. Carolyn Hamlin
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