PRELUDE/ENTRANCE
GREETING/ANNOUNCEMENTS
*OPENING SONG
“Praise to the Lord, the Almighty" UMH 139
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Liturgist: Children of God, you are welcome here. All of who you are even your regrets and failings—is welcome here. People: We come to tell the truth about who we are in relationship with God.
Liturgist: Many of us find it easy to recognize our goodness and difficult to notice our sins. People: We come to tell the truth about who we are in relationship with God.
Liturgist: Others of us live under a shroud of guilt and shame, believing we can never be good enough to receive the fullness of God’s love. People: We come to tell the truth about who we are in relationship with God.
Liturgist: However you enter this place, know this: you are loved, accepted, and called. May God’s love draw us to honest confession; God’s acceptance assures us of the work of grace in our lives, and God’s call compels us to live in grace. ALL: We come to tell the truth about who we are in relationship with God who loves us, accepts us, and calls us. Amen. Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, May 2024.
OPENING PRAYER
Holy God, joy of the universe, it is your awesome love that brings us here. You awaken within us a loving response, which hungers and thirsts for your truth and beauty. As we worship you, please do not give us the blessings we want but the ones we most need. Satisfy us with the truth that we may need, though such truth might be most uncomfortable, and confront us with your holy beauty, that brings us healing. Through Christ Jesus your joyful Son. Amen! Adapted from Bruce Prewer, http://www.bruceprewer.com/DocB/BSUNDAY17.htm. Used with permission of the author.
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 Ephesians 3:14-21
*SECOND SCRIPTURE John 6: 1-21
MESSAGE “Blessed and Broken”
RESPONSE TO THE WORD
*SONG OF RESPONSE
"Through It All" UMH 507
*OFFERING OF OURSELVES
*”A Statement of Faith of the Korean Methodist Church”
UMH 884
*DOXOLOGY UMH 95
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
SENDING FORTH
*SONG OF DISMISSAL
“Jesus Loves Me!” UMH 191
*BENEDICTION
*PEACE "Shalom to You " UMH 666
*Please stand as you are able