Green Season 2006
Becoming Prayer
Seekers Church
A Christian Community
In the Tradition of the Church of the Saviour
Becoming Prayer – Green Season 2006
CIRCLE TIME
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
If we knew how to listen to God, if we knew how to look around us, our whole life would become prayer. … it unfolds under God’s eyes and no part of it must be lived without being freely offered to God.
Michael Quoist
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: Praise from all creatures:
Voice 1: Laughers and list makers,
poets and plodders and prophets;
Voice 2: The wrinkled, the newborn,
the whale and the worm;
All: From all and from me, praise be to God,
Creator, Christ and Holy Spirit.
INVOCATION
HYMN
SILENCE
RESPONSIVE READING
Leader: Gracious and merciful is the Holy One,
slow to anger, full of love.
God is good in every way, merciful to every creature.
Voice 1: The Holy One is faithful in every word
and gracious in every work.
She supports the fallen, raises those bowed down.
Voice 2: The Holy One is just in every way,
loving in every deed.
He is near to those who call, who cry out from their hearts.
Leader: God grants them their desires,
hears their cry and saves them.
All: Let all flesh bless God’s many names,
holy, both now and forever.
SILENCE
PRAYERS
COMMON CONFESSION
Leader: Let us acknowledge our need for God’s forgiveness.
People: While I hid my sin,
my bones grew weak from endless groaning.
Leader: Day and night, under the weight of your hand,
my strength withered as in a summer drought.
All: Then I stopped hiding my sin and spoke out,
“God, I confess my wrong…”
INDIVIDUAL PRAYERS OF CONFESSION
ASSURANCE
Leader: Rejoice, for we are pardoned.
Our sin is forgiven.
Those who trust in God
are surrounded by God’s constant love.
All: Amen.
PRAYERS OF THE COMMUNITY
JESUS PRAYER
HYMN
THE WORD
SCRIPTURE
SERMON
SILENT REFLECTION
OFFERING
The first Sunday of each month we switch to a Communion Liturgy here.
SHARED REFLECTIONS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
HYMN
BENEDICTION
Leader: Go forth; laugh; give and receive mercy.
Be at ease in your struggles, bold in your loving,
joyful in your living and graceful in your life.
Become a song of praise.
People: Amen.
WORSHIP RESOURCES
Responsive Reading: Psalm 145
Confession & Assurance: Psalm 32