PRELUDE/ENTRANCE
GREETING/ANNOUNCEMENTS
*OPENING SONG
"Praise to the Lord, the Almighty" UMH 139
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Liturgist: Disciples of Christ, today your Savior calls you to come up the mountain and pray. Will you come?
People: We will go wherever Jesus leads us.
Liturgist: Will you follow when Christ’s glory overwhelms your senses, and you sit astounded at God’s greatness?
People: We will go wherever Jesus leads us.
Liturgist: Will you follow when Jesus won’t let you stay on the mountaintop, insisting that you return to the valley where people are hurting and in need of good news?
People: We will go wherever Jesus leads us.
Liturgist: Disciples, come! Let us worship God, whose glory shines on the mountaintop and in the eyes of our neighbors.
ALL: Come, let us worship God, whose glory shimmers all around us, even now!
Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, August 2024.
OPENING PRAYER
Almighty God, through your only Son you overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life. Grant that we, who celebrate our Lord's resurrection, by the renewing of your Spirit, arise from the death of sin to the life of righteousness; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (GELASIAN SACRAMENTARY, 5TH CENT., ALT.)
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 9:28-36
SECOND SCRIPTURE Proverbs 11:7-13
MESSAGE “Loose Lips”
RESPONSE TO THE WORD
*SONG OF RESPONSE
"Change My Heart, O God" TFWS 2152
*OFFERING OF OURSELVES
*”The Nicene Creed” UMH 880
*DOXOLOGY UMH 95
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
HOLY COMMUNION
GREAT THANKSGIVING UMH 15 THE LORD’S PRAYER
SHARING THE BREAD AND CUP
SENDING FORTH
*SONG OF DISMISSAL
"Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus" UMH 349
*BENEDICTION
*PEACE
"God Be with You till We Meet Again" UMH 672
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