Recommitment 2000: Everyday Prophets
Seekers Church
A Christian Community
In the Tradition of the Church of the Saviour
Recommitment 2000
Everyday Prophets
SILENT REFLECTION
Much as we value prophetic leaders and movements,
our challenge in Seekers has been
to be prophetic as a group,
to be a prophetic community.
That means re-inventing for our times
what it means to embody
compassion and justice
in our homes, at work,
in the community and the whole earth.
Sonya Dyer. SEEKERS: Growing Our Life Together .
PRELUDE
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: If you thirst for more than tears, come:
Community: And the Lord our God shall give you drink.
Leader: If you hunger for more than ashes, come:
All: Let us sip together the wine of the Kingdom,
and the realm of God shall appear in our midst.
Let us taste together the manna of heaven,
and the reign of God shall fill the earth.
INVOCATION
HYMN
WORD FOR THE CHILDREN
SILENCE
LITANY
Leader: What is possible?
Community: Freedom is possible.
Voice 1: In the ties of commitment we find freedom.
In the husk of the past we find the seeds of the future.
Voice 2: We embrace what is precious,
the dailiness of life.
Voice 1: We understand that freedom isn’t a once-in-a-lifetime
walk under the Milky Way,
feeling the rivers of light, the fields of dark.
Voice 2: What we mourn survives
in the dawning sky of every new day.
What we lost returns
and shines in the night to guide us home.
Leader: What brings us together
is the Spirit’s presence in our midst,
even when community is the last place we want to be.
All: We are here to say yes, God,
even when the answer requires more
than we believe we have.
SILENCE
PRAYERS
CONFESSION
Leader: Living, breathing Christ,
help us to find you in our midst –
in him who listens and sighs,
in her who watches and prays.
Voice 1: Is Christ young or old? Male or female?
Dark or light? Rich or poor?
Forgive us when we think we know.
Voice 2: Is Christ foolish or wise? Bold or timid?
Kind or fierce? Busy or slow?
Forgive us when we think we know.
Voice 1: Does Christ prefer men or women?
Frequent bars? Dance in the moonlight?
Wear dangling earrings?
Forgive us when we think we know.
Voice 2: Does Christ believe in the virgin birth?
In the trinity and the resurrection?
Is Christ a Christian?
Forgive us when we think we know.
All: Living, breathing Christ,
help us to find you in our midst,
and to accept that your truth
cannot be stored in old wineskins.
ASSURANCE
Leader: Take heart. We are a community of everyday prophets.
We can trust in the compassion of God,
the rock of our faith,
the spark of our transformation,
the fountain of our love,
and the source of our lives in Christ.
PRAYERS OF THE COMMUNITY
HYMN
THE WORD
FIRST LESSON
SILENCE
GOSPEL LESSON
SERMON
SILENT REFLECTION
OFFERING
SHARED REFLECTIONS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
HYMN
BENEDICTION
Leader: Go from this place
knowing that you are everyday prophets,
engaging the challenges you see
without knowing where it will all come out.
Live in what is unresolved;
be patient with the time it takes
for the new to become clear.
God walks with prophets in every age. Amen.
WORSHIP RESOURCES
Call To Worship: Eerett Tilson and Phyllis Cole, Litanies and Other Prayers, pg 137
Benediction: Dyer, SEEKERS: Growing Our Life Together
