Approaching God
Welcome
and Announcements
Prelude
Gathering
Song
Call to Worship
Youth: Living God, You have called us to be in Your
House of praise and prayer.
All: We have obeyed Your summons and now seek
to please You with our worship.
Youth: Allow us the presence of Your Holy Spirit, so
that we may bless and honor You. Amen.
First
Hymn
Prayer of Adoration
and Confession
Guide:
Everlasting Lord, who
speaks to all Creation, sustaining the entire Universe with Your Word, we come
here to worship and adore Your wonderful ways. We are blessed with Your peace
and strengthened by Your love.
People:
Gracious Father, You
command us to listen to Your voice and to follow Your ways. We confess that we
have been disobedient and rebelled against Your ways. We are weak, mortal, and
imperfect whereas You are holy, immortal, and almighty. Forgive our faithless
and selfish ways; pardon our wrong acts and sinful deeds. Hear us now as we
silently pray.
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Silent Confessions -
Guide:
Loving God, enable us to
be attentive to Your commands, and obediently listen to what You have to say
through Jesus Christ, Your Holy Son. In Christ alone, our spirits can be
reunited with You forever. Through Him, we are saved from eternal separation
and destruction. In His Name and by His words, we make these prayers, saying,
"Our Father…THE LORD’S PRAYER" (debts/debtors)
Promise of the
Gospel
Guide: We
thirst for Jesus and His soul-refreshing words. He is the Savior of our spirits
and the Healer of our hearts. Let us rejoice and be glad, for Christ has
overcome sin and death, bringing to us eternal blessings of faith, hope, and
love. Amen.
Gloria
Patri (sung in unison): Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen. Amen.
Family
Sermon (parents and all children, including Elementary school students come
forward)
Encountering God
Choir
Anthem
Prayers for Health
and Healing
Pastor:
We
call to You from all of our hearts, O LORD; answer us and we will obey Your
decrees. We call out to You to save us and heal us. We will earnestly follow
Your divine counsel and accept Your ways.
People: Each
day, Living Lord, we ask You for help. We place our hopes in Your promises and sacred
words. Hear our prayers, given in accordance with Your love. Preserve and
sustain us, in accordance with Your great compassion.
Pastor: You
are near to us, O Lord, and Your promises are reassuring. We bring before You
our loved ones, our neighbors, other people, and ourselves. We ask You to heal
us of everything that harms us in body, mind, heart, and soul Hear us now, as we faithfully pray.
Silent
Prayers for others and ourselves. A candle is lit.
Pastor: Lord
God, long ago Your words were established in scripture, and our people
faithfully followed You by applying them in our lives. Grant us healing through
Your promises, for in Jesus' Name, we pray. Amen.
(Healing
prayer based on words & phrases from Psalm 119:Qoph)
Singing
of ‘Sanctuary’
Prayer of
Illumination
Reader:
Holy Spirit, let these words of scripture send
us a meaningful message today. Enable our hearts to receive Christ's teaching
and open our minds to His ways. In Jesus' Name, we pray. Amen.
Scripture
Readings
The
Message and Apostles’ Creed
Serving God
Offering
& Offertory
Dedication
(in unison – led by pastor): Lord Jesus,
You come to display God's good works in our lives and throughout the entire
world. You call us to faithfully serve You in ministry and mission. Take these
tithes and gifts as our cheerful response to that invitation. Bless them for the life, work, and tasks that
our church undertakes and fulfills to the glory of God and His Kingdom. Amen.
Closing
Hymn
Benediction
(in unison): May the God of hope fill us
with all joy and peace as we trust in Him, so that we may overflow with hope by
the power of the Holy Spirit. In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: One
God forevermore. Amen.
Doxology
& Postlude
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