Threatened with Resurrection!

 

SEEKERS CHURCH

A Christian Community

In the Tradition of the Church of the Saviour

Easter 2003

Threatened with Resurrection!

 

REFLECTION

What keeps us from sleeping

is that

they have threatened us with resurrection.

 

Accompany us, then,

on this vigil

and you will know

how marvelous it is

to live

threatened with resurrection.

 

Julia Esquivel

 

PRELUDE

 

SILENCE

 

CALL TO WORSHIP

Leader:      Christ is risen!

 

People:      Christ is risen indeed!

 

Leader:      Our hearts burn to tell the world the good news.

 

People:      We listen to your presence with us.

We open our eyes to see you

as we share together.

 

Leader:      Christ is risen!

 

All:             Christ is risen indeed!  Allelujah!

 

INVOCATION

 

HYMN

 

WORD FOR THE CHILDREN

 

SILENCE

 

RESPONSIVE READING

Leader:     What keeps us from sleeping

is that Christ threatens us with resurrection.

 

All:             Peace be with you.

 

Leader:      We are Christ’s risen body,

dying into new life,

rising for the healing of the world.

 

All:             Peace be with you.

 

Leader:      Live in Christ

and you will know how marvelous it is

to live threatened with resurrection.

 

All:             Peace be with you.

 

Leader:      And also with you.

 

All:              Allelujah!  Amen.

 

SILENCE

 

PRAYERS

CONFESSION

Leader:      We come to celebrate the Good News.

 

Voice 1:     We long for a safe place to rest and be fed.

 

Voice 2:     In the midst of this troubled time

you invite us to walk with you.

 

Voice 1:     The road you walk is one we do not know,

and we are afraid.

 

Voice 2:     What shall we tell the world 

when pain and anger boil over on the fire of our hope? 

 

All:             Why does resurrection seem so complicated?

 

ASSURANCE

 Leader:      Do not let your hearts be troubled, 

 for the risen Christ is among us,  

 casting out fear 

 and calling us to new life in God's everlasting love. 

 

All:             Amen.

 

PRAYERS OF THE COMMUNITY

 

HYMN

 

THE WORD

SCRIPTURE

SERMON

SILENT REFLECTION

  

OFFERING

 

SHARED REFLECTIONS

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

HYMN

 

BENEDICTION   

 Leader:      As Christ loves us let us  

 love one another 

 deeply from the heart.  

 Break the bread of new life 

 where the world is still in pain.

 Christ is risen!  Go in peace.