Worship leading March 6th
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Pastoral Welcome
Pastoral Welcome
welcome online and in-person
P.A. is here
We are in Lent
A season of reflection and contemplation to see what things stay and what thing we can let go of in our spiritual life
When we are making those decisions about this season of Lent we look towards Jesus
Who showed us a very different type of power the power of the cross
We worship that Christ the Christ of the Cross this morning
I invite you to rise as you are able...
Call to Worship
Call to Worship
O Wise God, you have come to us in the form of a vulnerable child;
You teach us that the last are first and the first, last;
You lead us on a Way to new life that leads through death.
Truly your wisdom is different than ours!
Meet us in this place and teach us your foolish wisdom and your vulnerable power.
Give us joy to receive it fully and courage to live it foolishly.
Come let us worship Jesus Christ, our Wisdom and Word!
Pastoral Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
God of mystery,
we journey with Jesus during this Lenten season
with the certain hope that you will recreate our world
so that all people will live in peace and justice.
Call us out of the wilderness of apathy
and help us to reach out to those who do not know hope or love.
Hear the longings of our hearts
and the cries of those who yearn to live in peace and justice. as we fix our eyes on your cross
Lord in your Mercy; Hear Our Prayer
Oh God we remembered that you suffered and that you experience the sin and the pain and the laments of our world. God we cry out to you knowing that there is much that we are powerless over...
We are powerless over...
- Military conflicts happening around our world
- Divisions occuring within our church
- Often we are even powerless over our own sin struggles
God we remember in our powerlessness that you know our grief and that you are not an absent God but that you have felt our pain.
Lord in your Mercy; Hear Our Prayer
Oh Christ we recognize that in the midst of our powerlessness that your power is working in our lives even before we have the vocabulary to describe it.
I give thanks for your grace that reaches out even when we turn away from it.
God thank you for the joy that it is to be a church.
Thank you for the many blessings that you give each of us uniquely
Lord in your Mercy; Hear Our Prayer
We know that there are those among us here today that are bearing their own crosses even just entering into this worship space.
Some our crosses have names like:
grief
illness
loss
cancer
loneliness
isolation
mental health concerns
physical health concerns
Lord God in the midst of the crosses that we bear help us to see the narrative of Resurrection that you are building in our midst, but more importantly help us to learn to cry out to you from right where we are now
Lord in your Mercy; Hear Our Prayer
We know Lord God that your kingdom is upside down from ours. That first will be last and the last will be first. We know that when the table looks full you call us to say “Come on there is room.” So Lord God may we live into your upside down Kingdom. If it be you will Lord God comfort the afflicted among us and afflict the comfortable among us.
Lord in your Mercy; Hear Our Prayer
Lastly we know that we so often neglect to lift our own souls up to you Lord God. We pray that throughout these 40 days that we would hear your still small voice speaking to us, and that we would be faithful in our response. We lift up the joys and concerns of our own heart in this moment of silent worship.
Lord in your Mercy; Hear Our Prayer
Lord, help us walk faithfully in the path of our Lord Jesus Christ - he who taught us to pray
together as one family, saying.
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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever and ever.
Amen.
Announcements
Announcements
Listening Session next week
After service
In the basement
It will be specifically for those that are in the room
WCR
New Mission of the month
RAYS Program at IMPACT
food distribution center, but they also help individuals and families with a number of other needs.
The RAYS program allocates funding for summer youth programming for families that might not have access to summer youth programming.
Our church has made the RAYS program the mission of the month this month so you can support that mission by making a note of your offering
Celebration
Celebration
Kids Respond Project
Our Sermon series small group that meets after this participated as well!
Offertory Announcement
Offertory Announcement
Communion
Communion
Pastor Lewis:
Pastor Lewis:
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Pastor Angie:
Pastor Angie:
And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
Pastor Lewis:
Pastor Lewis:
Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ.
By the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection
you gave birth to your Church,
delivered us from slavery to sin and death,
and made with us a new covenant
by water and the Spirit.
Pastor Angie:
Pastor Angie:
On the night in which he gave himself up for us,
he took bread, gave thanks to you, broke the bread,
gave it to his disciples, and said:
"Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you.
Do this in remembrance of me."
Pastor Lewis:
Pastor Lewis:
When the supper was over, he took the cup,
gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said:
"Drink from this, all of you;
this is my blood of the new covenant,
poured out for you and for many
for the forgiveness of sins.
Do this, as often as you drink it,
in remembrance of me."
(Pastor speaks.) And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us, as we proclaim the mystery of faith.
Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.
Pastor Angie:
Pastor Angie:
Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here,
and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ,
that we may be for the world the body of Christ,
redeemed by his blood.
Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy Church, all honor and glory is yours, almighty Father, now and forever. Amen.
Invitation to partake - pastor Lewis
Invitation to partake - pastor Lewis
Prayer after communion - Pastor Angie
Prayer after communion - Pastor Angie