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 Easter – Transforming Faith
GATHERING
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
GATHERING
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
2016 Epiphany – Transforming Tradition
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
Tradition, which is always old, is at the same time ever new because it is always reviving—born again in each new generation, to be lived and applied in a new and particular way.
Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island, p 151
2015 Christmastide
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love divine;
Love was born at Christmas; star and angels gave the sign.
Worship we the Godhead, love incarnate, love divine;
Worship we our Jesus, but wherewith for sacred sign?
Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine,
Love to God and neighbor, love for plea and gift and sign.
Christina Rossetti
2015 Advent – Getting Ready
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
CANDLE LIGHTING
REFLECTION
Perhaps the hardest thing to remember about Christmas is this. It celebrates the incarnation, not just the nativity. The incarnation is an on-going process of salvation, while the nativity is the once-for-all-historical event of Bethlehem. We do not really celebrate Christ’s ‘birthday,’ remembering something that happened long ago. We celebrate the stupendous fact of the incarnation, God entering our world so thoroughly that nothing has been the same since.
Sourcebook, 1996, Liturgy Training Publication