Surrender

 

CHURCH

A Christian Community

In the Tradition of the Church of the Saviour

Summer 2003

Surrender

REFLECTION

There’s a necessary dying, and then Jesus is breathing again.

Very little grows on jagged

rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up

where you are. You’ve been

stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.

PRELUDE

SILENCE

CALL TO WORSHIP

Leader: How lovely is the dwelling place

of the One who calls us.

Voice 1: Our souls are filled with longing,

longing for the house of God.

Voice 2: Our bodies sing,

Sing our joy to the living God.

All: As a sparrow coming home,

a swallow seeking its nest,

we long to sing in the house of God.

INVOCATION

HYMN

SILENCE

CHANT

All: In our living,

In our dying,

You are bringing us to birth.

SILENCE

PRAYERS

 

CONFESSION

Leader: We wrestle with our brokenness,

forgetting the words God has given to us.

Voice 1: We live in our anger.

We fail to care for the lost and forgotten.

Voice 2: We put our interests before the interests of all.

We confuse faith with self-righteousness.

Leader: We are corruptible.

All: All this we lay before you,

Creator of life, and light, and love.

ASSURANCE

Friends, remember that the Creator,

our God,

is the source of every good gift.

The Word is planted in our hearts.

We are blessed by God.

All: Amen.

PRAYERS OF THE COMMUNITY

HYMN

THE WORD

Scripture

Sermon

Silent Reflection

OFFERING

SHARED REFLECTIONS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

HYMN

BENEDICTION

Leader: The Holy One is our sun, our shield,

the giver of honor and grace.

No good thing does the Spirit withhold

from those who trust in God.

All: Amen.

WORSHIP RESOURCES

Call to Worship based on Psalm 84

Confession, Assurance, and Benediction based on James 1:17-27.