Liturgies

Our inclusive language liturgies set the structure and theme of Sunday morning worship. All liturgies are written by the Celebration Circle Mission Group.

Click here for an archive of our liturgies.

Feel free to use what is helpful from these liturgies. We only ask that when substantial portions are abstracted or used in a written work, please credit Seekers Church and cite the URL.

2016 Recommitment – Lament and Promise

GATHERING2016 Recommitment Bulletin Cover

ENTRANCE

REFLECTION

We are experiencing all kinds of trouble, but we aren’t crushed. We are confused, but we aren’t depressed. We are harassed, but we aren’t abandoned. We are knocked down, but we aren’t knocked out.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9

Common English Bible (CEB)

2016 – Summer “What in the World….”

GATHERING16 Summe Cover: What in the World?

ENTRANCE

REFLECTION

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, “Letter to a Young Activist in Troubled Times”

 

2016 After Pentecost – Thank God We’re All in This Together

GATHERING2016 After Pentecost bulletin cover: Thank God We're in This Together

ENTRANCE

REFLECTION

Whenever Jesus says come and follow him, he is saying: I’d like to invite you to join my community. I’d like you to pick up your life, to pack up your bags and come share your life with us. Come join us, come experience the new kind of security that we have found by trusting God together.

Jim Wallis, The Call to Conversion, p.65

2016 Easter – Transforming Faith

GATHERING16 Easter Cover

ENTRANCE

REFLECTION

Shake out your qualms.

Shake up your dreams.

Deepen your roots.

Extend your branches.

Trust deep water

and head for the open,

even if your vision

shipwrecks you.…

Nothing perishes;

nothing survives;

everything transforms!

James Broughton, excerpt from “Easter Exultet” in Little Sermons of the Big Joy.

2016 Lent – We Become Re-Formed

GATHERING16 Lent Cover

ENTRANCE

REFLECTION

There is a hard truth to be told: before spring becomes beautiful, it is plug ugly, nothing but mud and muck. I have walked in the early spring through fields that will suck your boots off, a world so wet and woeful it makes you yearn for the return of ice. But in that muddy mess, the conditions for rebirth are being created.

Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak, p 103