October 14th,
2012
20th after Pentecost
Thoughts
around which to gather as we worship: This
week provides ample opportunity to reflect on how wealth and
possessions get in the way of faithful living and to ponder how we
might divest ourselves of some of what we have. We might also reflect
as church community on our attachment to things like our buildings
and familiar ways.
What would it mean for your community to give away what they have in
order to respond more fully to Jesus invitation to follow his ways?
What risk would it involve?
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Season
of Creation • Pentecost 2 2012
Announcements The
Work of Church and Community
WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD
Welcome and greeting one another
with the Peace of Christ.
One: The peace of Christ be
with you. Response: And with
your spirit.
* Introit To
you, O God, I lift my soul, to you I lift my soul.
Ref. 2, VU 752
* Call
to Worship
One:
When
God seems distant, All:
we seek what we long to find.
Two:
When
life overtakes us, All:
we seek what we long to find.
Three:
When
trouble is near and danger is close,
All:
we seek what we long to find.
One:
Come
find in this place the One we both long to find
and
who longs to find us.
* Opening
Prayer A
Movement Prayer
You
are invited to follow along with the actions of the worship leader as
the prayer is spoken. We will repeat the prayer by moving through
the actions in silence.
*
Hymn Will
You Come and Follow Me VU567
Prayer
for Wholeness Guided
Meditation on Possessions
Words
of Affirmation
All:
Embraced
by the love of Christ, filled with the power of God, we are set free
from all that has a hold on us, to share our real bounty with those
most in need and to enter God’s earthly realm of compassion and
grace. Amen.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
Scripture is our song for the journey, the living word
passed on from generation to generation
to guide and inspire.
A
Song of Faith: A Statement of Faith of The United Church of Canada
L’Église
Unie du Canada © 2006
Job
23:1–9, 16–17 Job offers
his complaint against God.
One:
This is the witness of the Hebrew people.
All:
Thanks be to God.
Psalm 22:1-15 Why have you
forsaken me? Pt. 1VU 744
*Hymn Precious
Lord, Take My Hand VU
670Opening the Word/Time with Children & The Lord's Prayer
The Gospel Acclamation
Mark
10:17–31 Easier
for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.
One:
The gospel of Jesus
Christ.
All: Praise to
you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Reflection on the
Word
WE RESPOND IN FAITH
* Hymn When
a Poor One VU 702
Minute for Mission & Offering Our Gifts to God
* Offering Song/Doxology
Your Work, O God VU 537
Prayers of Thanksgiving and
Intercession A Litany Prayer
Response: ...that
the first may be last and the last may be first.
WE GO TO SERVE GOD
* Hymn Go To the World VU
420
*
Commissioning
and Benediction
One:
Let
us go into the world taking with us
nothing
but ourselves to offer.
All:
We will bear in our hearts the love of Christ
and
share through our actions the power of the Spirit.
* Choral Amen
