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Worship Order for
Sunday
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Long Green Valley Church of the Brethren
Long Green & Kanes Rds., near Glen Arm, Md.
October 28, 2007
Worship 10:00 am, Sunday School 11:10 am
Worship
with Holy Compulsion
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“And let us
consider how to provoke one another to love and good
deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of
some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you
see the Day approaching.”
(Hebrews 10:24-25) |
Morning Praise (9:45 am)
Announcements
Prelude “Prelude
in D Minor” Bach
Call
to Worship
1
Peter 1:13-16
(from The Message)
Entering
into God’s presence
“Holy, holy,
holy”
75
*Unison
Prayer
(back of bulletin)
*Praising
"To God be the
glory"
102
Being
honest with God
Scripture
Hebrews
11:1-3, 8-12
Children’s
Message
“What
makes it float?”
Scripture
Hebrews
10:24-25
Message
“Holy
Compulsion”
Singing
our faith
"For all the saints"
636
Responding
with a joy, a concern, a word of testimony or praise
Praying
Pastoral
Prayer
Responding
with our Tithes and Offerings
Offertory
“Prelude in B Minor”
Chopin
(Please sign the attendance pad and pass it on)
*Sending
"Savior of my soul"
549
*Blessing
(based upon Hebrews 12:1-2)
*Postlude
“
Forth
in Thy Name”
Dykes
#'s are from Hymnal:
A Worship Book
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Call to
Worship
So roll up your
sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift
that's coming when Jesus arrives. Don't lazily slip back into those
old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn't
know any better then; you do now. As obedient children, let
yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God's life, a life
energetic and blazing with holiness. God said, “I am holy; you be holy.”
(1
Peter 1:13-16, from The Message)
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Unison
Prayer
Holy Spirit, pour
out upon us.
Soak into every pore of this living body.
Saturate our flesh, liquefy our spirit.
Holy Spirit, pour
out upon us.
Cascade over us with unbridled power.
Carve deep channels of your love with us.
Holy Spirit, pour
out upon us.
Baptize us with refreshing rain.
Wash away our shame and overflow our longing.
Holy Spirit, pour
out upon us.
Wet us, together – sons, daughters, old, young, slave,
free.
Immerse us in Godly visions, dreams, and prophecy.
Holy Spirit, pour
out upon us.
Holy
Spirit, pour out upon us!
by
Jonathan Shively
Richmond, IN Church of the Brethren
Church of the Brethren Living Word Bulletin
Anchor/Wallace, Sleepy Eye MN 56085, "The Living Word
Series"
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Being
honest with God
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“Atonement for sin” ... “perfect redemption” ...
“pardon received” ... we sing these words with an
upbeat chorus. Please join me as we step into them with a
time for being honest with God. Let’s pray. |
Lord, we thank you that even “the vilest offender” who
comes to you in good faith is forgiven. That is what we have just
sung. But do we really believe it? We confess our struggle with
what Jesus said about forgiving 70 times 7 times, especially when
it comes to the truly bad guys, like that man who shot all those
innocent Amish children, or the person who started at least one of
those fires in California that have left so many people without
homes. Forgiveness is hard, God. Thanks for being merciful,
because we so often are not.
And yet, you have called us to “be
holy.” That’s
another word with which we struggle. We do
want our lives to be shaped by Jesus, so that you shine in us,
God. It often seems,
however, like we are so very far away from holiness. Like that
matter of forgiving “our debtors,” “those who
have transgressed against us.” Or a thousand other ways in
which we fall short of what you want us to be. When it comes right
down to it, Lord - if we are truly honest with you - the distance
between us and that “vilest offender” is not very far.
Thank you for Jesus and what he did to re-connect us with
you, in spite of ourselves - his
“atonement” for our sin, how we are pardoned, how our
lives in Christ are now worth something,
we’re “redeemed” even though we didn’t do anything
to earn it. Help us to live in your holiness, your Holy Spirit
pouring over us with like an empowering, refreshing, forgiving and
living rain. Yes, help us to live by faith. Today! In Jesus, we
pray. Amen.
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Children’s Message
“What
makes it float?”
Uses a helium-filled balloon to talk about faith
(and Abraham).
borrowed from "The Humongous book of
Children's Messages,"
©2004, Group Publishing, pp. 31-32
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Pastoral Prayer
written closer to the time (if not at the
moment)
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Responding
with our Tithes and Offerings
“By faith...” That’s how, in the 11th chapter of
Hebrews, all those characters from the Old Testament are described
as having lived. If, some day in the future, a chapter were written
about how you lived, would the words, “by
faith,” be an apt description?
The great things about worshiping on Sunday, the first day of
the week, is that we are reminded of Easter, and how God can roll
away the stone every day, and we can rise with Christ. Now can be a
new beginning, as we respond “by
faith” today. Allow your offering this morning be that kind of
a response, ... “by faith.”
Ushers?
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Blessing
(based upon Hebrews
12:1-2)
Never forget,
brothers and sisters,
that you “are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses.”
May God bless you with the ability
to “lay aside every weight
and the sin that clings so closely;” and
to “run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
looking to Jesus the pioneer
and perfecter of our faith.”
Also remember that
“for
the sake of the joy that was set before him,”
the Savior of your soul has
“endured the cross,
disregarding its shame,
and has taken his seat
at
the right hand
of
the throne of God.”
So get going!
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