| Processional Hymn 651 |
"Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah" |
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| Introit 567 |
"Will You Come and Follow Me" |
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Will you come and follow me if I but call your name?
Will you go where you don't know and never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown, will you let my name be known, will you let my life be grown in you and you in me?
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Christ, your summons echoes true when you but call my name.
Let me turn and follow you and never be the same.
In your company I'll go where your love and footsteps show.
Thus I'll move and live and grow in you and you in me.
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| Prayer of Approach (Unison)
Invite us to the banquet of new life
flowing from your generous heart, O God.
Help us to receive the love
which is spread across the table of life
and into which we are gathered this day.
Call to our hearts in invitation.
Take our hands now, we pray,
and lead us toward your gifts. Amen
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| The Lord's Prayer (sung) |
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#960 |
Prayer of Confession (Unison)
Hospitable God,
you invite us again and again to the table
of abundant feasting in your love,
but we seem immune to the aromas
of your lovingly prepared bounty.
We choose instead to be satiated for the moment -
but never satisfied for long -
by empty, easy offerings around us.
We so often settle into the comfort of convenience,
failing to notice that our lives have run dry.
Sometimes we deprive our lives with guilt,
reducing the dimensions of your mercy to our own.
As we pause to know who we are, O God,
bring to us the echoes of your gentle words
down the ages, we pray. Amen
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| Assurance of Pardon |
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Minister: |
God has set a glorious table laden
with abundant pardon and forgiveness.
Calling us to receive it and live once again.
Taste now the peace that lies within grace.
Drink to the full all that God offers to us.
Let us lift up our hearts in thankfulness.
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Congregation: |
Thanks be to God. Amen |
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| Men's Choir |
I Will Sing the Wondrous Story - (P.T. Bilhorn)
Pass it Along! - (N. Sleeth)
For Where Love Is, there Is God - (D. Wagner)
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| Old Testament Lesson |
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Isaiah 55:1-9 |
| Children's Hymn 299 |
"Teach Me God to Wonder" |
Vs. 1,2 |
| Children's Story |
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The Darbys |
| Children's Hymn 299 |
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Vs. 3,4 |
| New Testament Lessons |
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1 Corinthians 10:1-13
Luke 13:1-9 |
| Anthem |
"Thy Will be Done" - J. Ellers |
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| Offertory 537"Your Work, O God, Needs Many Hands"
Your work, O God, needs many hands to help you everywhere,
And some there are who cannot serve unless our gifts we share.
Presentation of the Offering
Because we love you and your work, our offering now we make;
Be pleased to use it as your own, we ask for Jesus' sake. Amen
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| Closing Hymn 658 |
"O Love, That Wilt Not Let Me Go" |
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Blessing |
"Go Now in Peace" - D. Besig & N. Price
Go now in peace, Never be afraid.
God will go with you each hour of every day.
Go now in faith, steadfast, strong and true.
Know he will guide you in all you do.
Go now in love, and show you believe.
Reach out to others so all the world can see.
God will be there watching from above.
Go now in peace, in faith and in love.
Amen.
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