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Invitation to the Celebration
     We come to worship in Christ's church, to celebrate, to declare, to affirm whose we are, who we are, what we do, where we go in the Name of the crucified, risen Lord.
Welcome.
P: We continue to celebrate.
M: What?
Ourselves?
Others?
Things?
Objects?
Success?
Money?
P: No! We celebrate the Word made flesh.
M: Is that Word here today?
If so, where?
Can we see him?
Hear him?
Speak about him?
How can worship help us find him?
P: He is real.
His presence is here!
M: Then we seek him in prayer, in the word, in our response, in our commitment, in our mission.
P: Come, Lord Jesus, we believe; help our unbelief!
~* OPENING HYMN                                 Thy Word                      # 178
~* INVOCATION AND LORD'S PRAYER    Bless our church that we may, as the Body of our Lord, bring blessings to each other, and to those whom we meet, that your will may be carried out through us.
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.
SCRIPTURE READING                          Exodus 1:8-2:108 Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
9 He said to his people, "Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. 10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land."
11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor.
They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.
12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.
13 The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites, 14 and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor.
They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.
15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 16 "When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live."
:17 But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live.
18 So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this, and allowed the boys to live?" 19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them."
20 So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong.
21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every boy that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every girl live."
2:1 Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months.
3 When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river.
4 His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him.
5 The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river.
She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it.
6 When she opened it, she saw the child.
He was crying, and she took pity on him, "This must be one of the Hebrews' children," she said.
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?" 8 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Yes."
So the girl went and called the child's mother.
9 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages."
So the woman took the child and nursed it.
10 When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and she took him as her son.
She named him Moses, "because," she said, "I drew him out of the water."READER
OFFERING                    Stewardship Challenge
     Consider the stewardship of our words.
Our declaration of faith makes a difference, just as our daily speaking does.
We have this idea that popular usage of words makes for correctness,  as for example, "Winston tastes good, like ..." Or, "who do you trust?" used by politicians, and others who ought to know better.
If it is wrong, it cannot be right, even though we all talk that way.
~* DOXOLOGY
~* PRAYER OF DEDICATION      
CHILDREN'S STORY TIME         Focus on Peter.
Sometimes he was "hot" and sometimes "cold"  in his faith.
Give some examples of Peter.
Invite the children to give some examples from their lives when they made a decision and stuck by it, even when others made fun of them.
CHORAL ANTHEM
PRAYER           FAcing Up to Ourselves              Introduction to Our Brokenness
     Where is your favorite hiding place from God? (Silence for one minute.)
Anyone care to respond?
For laypeople, it may be serving as a church officer, or a member of a committee, which does church business  without seriously involving God in the decisions.
It may be in becoming a "pillar of the church."
(Again, one minute of silence.)
Then offer this poem, written by Fran De Nardo, Grade 6: "I have a hiding place; it can be in a closet.
Sometimes it is in the attic.
Other times it is in the basement.
But my favorite hiding place is in MYSELF."
Invitation to Our Acceptance
     Only God knows the extent of our dishonesty, our fear in proclaiming our declaration about who Christ is to us, our lack of obedience; for God alone has paid the supreme price for such knowledge.
(Two minutes of silence.)
Then say, "Nothing is so whole as a broken heart" (Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav).
Conclude with this, or a similar prayer: O God, because we can hide nothing, including ourself, especially ourself, from you, we have confessed our cowardice and lack of obedience.
We rejoice that you have forgiven us, even when we "feel" unforgiven and guilty.
Remove from us the guilt which destroys our relationship with you and others, and the fear which betrays our trust in you and others.
In the strong name of the Christ.
Lord, so often when You have acted to free Your children in bondage we have actually resisted Your guidance and even plotted against those who would proclaim Your message of freedom.
Forgive us, Lord, and when we find others enslaved, help us work for their freedom, or when we find others in need, teach us to reach out a helping hand.
O God, You have empowered us to share Christ in so many ways: in our words, in our actions, and in the way we reach out and care for others.
Lord, touch our hearts with Your love.
so often we have strayed away from Your Gospel.
Too often our lives have not shared Your mercy and Your Grace.
Forgive us, Lord, and help us proclaim the Gospel to the world.
You are the Christ, sent by the living God; You died on the Cross and were raised from the dead; and You sent the Holy Spirit who
lives in us.
We praise You, Lord.
~* PREPARATIONAL HYMN                    Holy, Holy, Holy             # 2
SCRIPTURE TEXT                     Matthew 16:13-20
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