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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.
August 12, 2012
Worship 10:00 am
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“So
then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the
truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one
another.”
(Ephesians 4:25) |
Beginning with Praise
(9:50 am) "What
a friend we have in Jesus" 574
Announcements
Prelude
"Prelude and Fugue in G Minor" Bach Call to Worship
Psalm 34:1-3
*Hymn
"Praise, my soul, the God of heaven!"
63
*Opening Prayer
Scripture
Psalm 34:4-8
Sharing
a joy, a concern, a word of testimony or praise
(please be brief, and aware of God's listening presence)
Hymn
"Breathe on me, breath of
God" 356
Pastoral Prayer
Annual Conference
Moment
Scripture
Ephesians
4:25 - 5:2
Song "The Messiah has loved
us" (insert)
Message
"Sacrificial
Living"
(mp3)
Hymn
(vs. 1-3)
"Take My Life" 389
Responding with our Tithes and Offerings
Offertory
"How Great the Wisdom" McIntyre
(Please sign the attendance pad
and pass it on)
*Hymn
(vs. 4-6)
"Take My Life" 389
*Benediction
*Postlude
"God of the Fertile Fields" Timan
*Rise in body or in spirit #'s are from Hymnal:
A Worship Book
Worship leaders - see basic
guidelines |
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Opening
Prayer
Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and
from whom no secrets are hid: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by
the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you
and worthily magnify your Holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
adapted from
Gregorian Sacramentary, 7th century
taken from
For
all who Minister,
©1993, Brethren Pres, Elgin, IL, p.86
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Pastoral Prayer
written closer to the time (if not at the
moment)
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Annual Conference Moment
Our delegate to the
annual
meeting of our denomination, Gary Miller, will give a
partial report on this event. There will probably be other
moments during worship in the weeks to come, as he spreads out
his report into more easily digestible portions.
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Returning
our Tithes and Offerings
There is a difference between
having something “taken from us” and freely giving it. For the
woman who wrote the hymn we are in the middle of singing, the
words to the next verse became very personal as she was going
through all her jewelry one day to feely give it away to the
Church Missionary Society. Of fifty items, she kept but one,
a locket which contained the only portrait she had of her niece
in heaven. As strange as it may sound, she wrote of that
experience of sacrificial giving, “I never packed a box with
such pleasure.”1
It was not with gritted teeth
that Frances Havergal wrote “take my silver and my gold.” Along
with her life, it was freely given, a gift grounded in the
graciousness of God... May your offering this day be given
freely, not through gritted teeth or fear of what tomorrow may
bring. In the words of The Message, paraphrasing the 2nd
verse of Ephesians 4: “Observe how Christ loved us. His love
was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get
something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love
like that.”2
Ushers?
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Benediction
The refrain to "The Messiah has loved
us"
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