Pentecost 1997: Of Course!

SEEKERS CHURCH
A Christian Community
In the Tradition of the Church of the Saviour
Pentecost 1997

Of Course!

Reflection

The Pentecost story reverses the going logic, and puts hearing before speaking as the work of the Spirit.

Nell Morton, The Journey is Home

Prelude

Call To Worship

Leader:: Let what was still and dark wake up…
Voice 1:: Become intelligent, move,
name itself by hunger and by kind,
walk, swim, fly, cry, call, squeak, sing.
Voice 2:: Let us all praise
and pray to the light we are
but can not know.
Unison:: Let the Spirit of Pentecost roar through us!
Amen.

Call to worship and litany based on Parker Palmer, The Promise of Paradox.

Invocation

Hymn

Word For The Children

Silence

Litany Of Community

Leader:: In true community
there will be enough diversity and conflict
to shake loose our need
to make the world in our own image.
Reader:: Of course!
Voice 1:: Community will teach us
that our grip on truth is fragile and incomplete,
that we need many ears
to hear the fullness of God’s word for our lives.
Reader:: Of course!
Voice 2:: Community can break our egos open
to the experience of a God
who cannot be contained by our conceptions.
Unison:: When the Spirit of Pentecost roars through,
community breathes.

Silence

Prayers

Confession

Leader:: God of all creation,
we yearn for the assurance
that our understanding of you is complete.
People:: We yearn to know
that our choices are expressions of your will.
Unison:: We yearn for the freedom to risk believing
that you are present in our life together.

INDIVIDUAL PRAYERS OF CONFESSION

ASSURANCE (Leader)

God stands beyond all human systems;
God transforms the difficult lessons of community
Into a larger and truer life.

Amen.

Prayers Of The Community

Hymn

The Word

First lesson

Silence

Gospel Lesson

Sermon

Silent Reflection

The first Sunday of each month we switch to a Communion Liturgy here.

Offering

Shared Reflections

Announcements

Hymn

Benediction (Leader)

People of the Spirit, take heart!
In the thousand tongues of fire
there is one Spirit
calling us to unexpected new life.
Go forth to live the call of God.

Amen.

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SEEKERS CHURCH
Revised Common Lectionary
Pentecost 1997
Summer

May 18 pg 189
Pentecost
Acts 2:1-21
Psalm 104:24-34, 35b
Romans 8:22-27
John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15

May 25 pg 195
Trinity Sunday
Isaiah 6:1-8
Psalm 29
Romans 8:12-17
John 3:1-17

June 1 pg 200
1 Samuel 3:1-20
Psalm 136:1-6, 13-18
2 Corinthians 4:5-12
Mark 2:23-3:6

June 8 pg 206
1 Samuel 8:4-20 (11:14-15)
Psalm 138
2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1
Mark 3:20-35

June 15 pg 212
1 Samuel 15:34-16:13
Psalm 20
Psalm 72
2 Corinthians 5:6-17
Mark 4:26-34

June 22 pg 220
1 Samuel 17:1a, (4-11,
19-23), 32-49
Psalm 9:9-20
2 Corinthians 6:1-13
Mark 4:35-41

June 29 pg 227
2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27
Psalm 130
2 Corinthians 8:7-15
Mark 5:21-43

July 6 pg 234
2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10
Psalm 48
2 Corinthians 12:2-10
Mark 6:1-13

July 13 pg 241
2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19
Psalm 24
Ephesians 1:3-14
Mark 6:14-29

July 20 pg 247
2 Samuel 7:1-14a
Psalm 89:20-37
Ephesians 2:11-22
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

July 27 pg 253
2 Samuel 11:1-15
Psalm 14
Ephesians 3:14-21
John 6:1-21

August 3 pg 258
2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a
Psalm 51:1-12
Ephesians 4:1-16
John 6:24-35

August 10 pg 264
2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33
Psalm 130
Ephesians 4:25-5:2
John 6:35, 41-51

August 17 pg 269
1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14
Psalm 111
Ephesians 5:15-20
John 6:51-58

August 24 pg 275
1 Kings 8:(1, 6, 10-11),
22-30, 41-43
Psalm 84
Ephesians 6:10-20
John 6:56-69

August 31 pg 280
Song of Solomon 2:8-13
Psalm 45:1-2, 6-9
Psalm 72
James 1:17-27
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

September 7 pg 287
Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23
Psalm 125
Psalm 124
James 2:1-10, (11-13), 14-17
Mark 7:24-37

September 14 pg 293
Proverbs 1:20-33
Psalm 19
James 3:1-12
Mark 8:27-38

September 21 pg 303
Proverbs 31:10-31
Psalm 1
James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a
Mark 9:30-37

September 28 pg 308
Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22
Psalm 124
James 5:13-20
Mark 9:38-50

October 5 pg 314
Job 1;1; 2:1-10
Psalm 26
Psalm 25
Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12
Mark 10:2-16

October 12 pg 321
Job 23:1-9, 16-17
Psalm 22:1-15
Hebrews 4:12-16
Mark 10:17-31

October 19 pg 326
Job 38:1-7, (34-41)
Psalm 104:1-9, 24, 35c
Hebrews 5:1-10
Mark 10:35-45

October 26 pg 331
Job 42:1-6, 10-17
Psalm 34:1-8, (19-22)
Hebrews 7:23-28
Mark 10:46-52

November 2 pg 337
Ruth 1:1-18
Psalm 146
Hebrews 9:11-14
Mark 12:28-34

November 9 pg 347
Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17
Psalm 127
Psalm 42
Hebrews 9:24-28
Mark 12:38-44

November 16 pg 353
1 Samuel 1:4-20
1 Samuel 2:1-10
Psalm 113
Hebrews 10:11-25
Mark 13:1-8

November 23 pg 360
Reign of Christ
2 Samuel 23:1-7
Psalm 132:1-12
John 18:33-37
Revelation 1:4b-8