PRELUDE/ENTRANCE
GREETING/ANNOUNCEMENTS
*OPENING SONG
“A Mighty Fortress is Our God" UMH 110
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Liturgist: Children of God, when we witness the needs of strangers and listen to the struggles of our friends, remember.
People: Let mutual love continue.
Liturgist: When we hear the struggles of those in prison and recognize the suffering of people near and far, remember.
People: Let mutual love continue.
Liturgist: When temptations to hoard more money, more power, and more influence surround us on every side, remember.
People: Let mutual love continue.
Liturgist: As we gather for worship, remember: God is here among us, surrounding us with love and forming us to live in love everywhere we go.
ALL: We choose to cooperate with God’s love today and every day so that mutual love will continue wherever we go and whatever we do. Amen.
Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, March 2024.
OPENING PRAYER
In the face of all our realities: We are the people who heal each other, who grow strong together, who name the truth, who know what it means to live in community, moving toward a common dream for a new heaven and a new earth. In the power of the love of God our Creator, The company of Jesus Christ, and the leading of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Adapted from the people of Pitt Street Uniting Church (Sydney, Australia), Prayers Encircling the World: An International Anthology (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998), 212.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
SHARING GOD’S PEACE
GOD SIGHTINGS
PRAYER FOR COMFORT AND HEALING
THE LORD’S PRAYER
PROCLAMATION AND RESPONSE
A TIME FOR CHILDREN
SPECIAL MUSIC
FIRST SCRIPTURE Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
*SECOND SCRIPTURE Luke 14:1, 7-14
MESSAGE “Humility”
RESPONSE TO THE WORD
*SONG OF RESPONSE
“Humble Thyself in the Sight of the Lord” TFWS 2131
*OFFERING OF OURSELVES
*”Affirmation from Romans” UMH 887
*DOXOLOGY UMH 95
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
SENDING FORTH
*SONG OF DISMISSAL
“The Servant Song” TFWS 2222
*BENEDICTION
*PEACE
“God Be with You till We Meet Again “ UMH 672
Verse 1
*Please stand as you are able