PRELUDE/ENTRANCE
GREETING/ANNOUNCEMENTS
*OPENING SONG
"Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing" UMH 400
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Liturgist: Beloved, the Savior calls to you. Will you follow?
People: God, help us leave everything and follow.
Liturgist: Christ’s call persists through the clouds of doubt, fear, and worry that descend on our path. Will you follow?
People: God, help us leave everything and follow.
Liturgist: Jesus calls us to shift our priorities, to leave behind the baggage of prejudice and the grasping for position so we can truly love God and our neighbors well. Will you follow?
People: God, help us leave everything and follow.
Liturgist: Beloved, receive this good news: you are not alone! Today we answer Christ’s call together!
ALL: God, help us leave everything and follow your path of Love everywhere we go! Amen.
Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, August 2024.
OPENING PRAYER
Some have come under compulsion. Some have come out of curiosity. Some have come out of a great need. Some have come out of tradition. Some have come to dedicate their new outfit. All will meet Jesus. All will have the opportunity to be blessed. All will decide what to do, having met Jesus. May we decide to follow him? Amen.
Written by T. Anne Daniel in The Africana Worship Book, Year C (Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 2008), 126.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
SHARING GOD’S PEACE
JOYS AND CONCERNS
THE LORD’S PRAYER
PROCLAMATION AND RESPONSE
A TIME FOR CHILDREN
SPECIAL MUSIC
*FIRST SCRIPTURE Luke 5:1-11
SECOND SCRIPTURE 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
MESSAGE “The Truth on Which We Stand”
RESPONSE TO THE WORD
*SONG OF RESPONSE
"Amazing Grace" UMH 378
*OFFERING OF OURSELVES
*”The Nicene Creed” UMH 880
*DOXOLOGY UMH 95
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
SENDING FORTH
*SONG OF DISMISSAL
"O How I Love Jesus" UMH 170
*BENEDICTION
*PEACE
"God Be with You till We Meet Again" UMH 672
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