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January 30, 2005 – 4th Sunday after Epiphany
                                                 RC~/Pres: 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
 
        Revised Common Lectionary Readings
        Micah 6:1-8
        Psalm 15
        1 Corinthians 1:18-31
        Matthew 5:1-12
 
Rejoice and Be Glad
 
~*Call to Worship
Blessed, blessed are we!
The sound of this gift sings down the centuries
toward the humble people of the earth.
Blessed, blessed are we!
The Christ has gone up the mountain of life
and looks down upon us with grace,
loving us all in our ordinary efforts,
and hovering over our life in warmth.
Blessed, blessed are we!
This is our God
who showers us with encouragement.
*Let us sing to the God of our salvation.*
~*Prayer of Invocation        
Come, loving Jesus, come and look upon us.
Join our lives here in ways that we can know.
Stand in our midst
with outspread arms of blessing
and move our hearts to hope,
that we may reach out and touch
the life of your Holy Spirit.
Amen.
~*Prayer of Confession       
We come before you as your church today,
O God.
We gather here in confession
as your witnesses in this place.
Forgive us if we have failed
to bring your blessing to the world,
leaving the people without the level of grace,
which we ourselves have received.
/Silent reflection./
Forgive us, O God.
 
*Do not hold your blessing from us *
*this day.*
Forgive us if we have tried to make people earn
your blessing, Christ Jesus,
when you have given it so freely to us
while we were yet sinners.
Forgive us if the world sees us
as those who judge and condemn,
rather than those
who are saved only by your grace.
/Silent reflection./
Forgive us, O God.
 
*Do not hold your blessing from us *
*this day.*
Forgive us if we have turned away
from your blessing,
holding our failings to us
as though your love
is less than Jesus showed to us
in costly life and death.
/Silent reflection./
Forgive us, O God.
 
*Do not hold your blessing from us *
*this day.*
*This we pray in faith.
Amen.*
 
 
~*Words of Assurance       
We may fail in grace,
but God never does.
Nothing can separate us from the love of God,
except our own choice.
We are forgiven now.
Receive the blessing of Jesus Christ.
Amen.
~*Prayer of Thanksgiving   
Blessed be God forever,
for we are not condemned.
We are seen as part of the hope of God,
embraced in God’s future for the world.
Blessed be God forever,
for life is more promising than we have seen.
There will be joy ahead for ordinary people,
more than we could have dreamed.
For God is the loving parent and savior of us all.
Thanks be to God.
Amen.
~*Stewardship Thought      
I wonder whether most of us in the church rejoice and are glad when we hear the Beatitudes?
I am sure that those who heard them first were filled with wonder and joy because what they heard was that they were blessed by God, that good things waited for them.
How often have we used the Beatitudes as a sort of threat – this is the way you should live if you are to be blessed?
Especially in the Matthean form, the Beatitudes are filled with good things for humble, struggling people, or even for those who have one attribute that is mentioned.
We are assured of the gracious and comprehensive blessing of Christ who looked out on humble, struggling humankind and reminded it that our ordinary efforts are blessed of God.
What good news for us all!
 
 
~*Offertory Sentence                           
The giving of our gifts to God
is a sharing in the blessing of the world.
Let us bring our offering now.
~*Offertory Prayer                                
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