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.
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
2015 Jubilee – Shining Through Us
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these — to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Let Your Soul Light Shine Bright,
http://www.wanttoknow.info/070825soullightshinebright
2015 Recommitment – Taking It Seriously
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
If I make of my life an offering and a dedication to God, then this dedication will include all my entanglements and involvements. There follows, then, a radical change over my entire landscape and miraculously I am free at my center. It is for this reason that it is well, again and again, to reestablish my dedication, to make repeatedly an offering of my life. I must keep my dedication up to date with my experiencing.
Howard Thurman, “Life, an Offering to God”in The Mood of Christmas and Other Celebrations, pg 71
2015 Summer – Missing the Point
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
Certainty is missing the point entirely.
Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith, p 257.
2015 After Pentecost – Called through the Storm
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
from letter #228 from Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo
written at The Hague on or about Tuesday, 16 May, 1882