PRELUDE/ENTRANCE
GREETING/ANNOUNCEMENTS
*OPENING SONG
"O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing" UMH 57
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Liturgist: Jesus is in our midst. Jesus, our healer, deliverer, and friend, is here.
People: We have heard so many good things about him, but we long to meet him, to encounter him ourselves.
Liturgist: Call out to him, and do not be silent. Like Bartimaeus, shout to him and do not allow anyone to silence your voice. Cry out and tell Jesus what you need! People: Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on us! We need a touch from you! Touch me; touch us in our need, which we lift right now in our hearts!
Liturgist: In this time of worship, celebrate God’s goodness! In this time celebration of worship, know that Jesus touched your place of need. Hallelujah! Amen!
Adapted from Lillian C. Smith, The Africana Worship Book, Year B (Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 2007), 72.
OPENING PRAYER
Lord God, our provider. We worship you as the one who meets our needs, who grants our daily bread, who restores our humanity. We worship you as the God who knows human need from experience, who knows want, and thirst and humiliation.
And we worship you as your people, in a world where wealth is mixed with poverty; where we have all we need, but don’t know how to share. Where want, and hunger and thirst and humiliation are hidden from those with the power to offer challenge and bring change. So, open our hearts. Not only that we learn sad facts about the world. But that we may feel our place in this world, as your people. Where there is need, teach us to learn where our wealth lies and help us to give. Where there is injustice, teach us to learn the causes and help us to fight. Where there is brokenness, teach us to learn of our own brokenness and help us to bring wholeness. Help us to look to you, that we neither remain ignorant of the world, nor lose ourselves in despair at its brokenness. Show us how to worship you, the crucified God, the risen God, the God who provides. Help us to carry our cross, to accept your gift of new life, to bring that gift to others. Amen.
Adapted from the Baptist Union of Great Britain website.
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 Mark 10:46-52
SECOND SCRIPTURE Hebrews 5:1-10
MESSAGE “Our Great High Priest”
RESPONSE TO THE WORD
*SONG OF RESPONSE
"Jesus, Name above All Names" TFWS 2071
*OFFERING OF OURSELVES
*”The Apostles’ Creed” UMH 881
*DOXOLOGY UMH 95
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
SENDING FORTH
*SONG OF DISMISSAL
"My Hope Is Built” UMH 368
*BENEDICTION
*PEACE
"God Be with You till We Meet Again” UMH 672
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