News and Announcements:
Lighting of Candles: #154MV (verse 1)
Deep in my heart, there is a common vision;
Deep in my heart, there is a common song;
Deep in my heart, there is a common story;
Telling creation that we are one.
Coming Together:
When we fear poverty, God invites us to trust in the power of community.
When we fear rejection, God invites us to know our value and worth deep within us.
When we fear hunger and thirst, God invites to give thanks for the bread and cup before us each day.
When we fear solitude, God invites us to reach out in love to others in need.
Let us pray...
Holy One, move us from fear. Help us return to the ways of your grace, and forgive us our worship of other gods. Amen.
Singing: #326VU “O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing”
Sharing the Peace of Christ:
In a spirit of community and thanksgiving,
reach out to those around you and share with each other the Peace of Christ,
perhaps with the words "Peace be with you!", responding "And
also with you!"
reach out to those around you and share with each other the Peace of Christ,
perhaps with the words "Peace be with you!", responding "And
also with you!"
Readings from Scripture:
1st Corinthians 8:1-13 HB pg 171
Mark 1:21-28 NT pg 35
In ages past, disciples, prophets, priests and historians wrote down their faith. This is a faithful witness of our ancestors. Word of God for us today.
Thanks be to God.
Thanks be to God.
Singing: #603VU “In Loving Partnership”
Message: “Contextual Authority”
Giving Our Offerings:
Offering Song (#241VU) and Prayer:
Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
praise God, all creatures high and low;
give thanks to God in love made known:
Creator, Word and Spirit, One.
Let us pray...
We give in celebration of you, our one true and great God. Gracious God, bless these our offerings, we pray. Amen.
Singing: #402VU “We Are One”
(Sunday School participants return from their learning circle)
Sharing Communion:
Statement of Faith #918 "A New Creed"
Prayer of Thanksgiving
God be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift our hearts in prayer.
Let us give thanks to God.
It is good to give God thanks and praise.
Loving God, Source of All, we thank and praise you with our lips and with our lives, that, having created us and all things through your Word, you welcome our prayer and praise. For the goodness of creation and the glory of redemption, we praise you. for the law of holiness, inviting our obedience, and the call of the prophets, rebuking our disobedience, we praise you.
Therefore, with all that is, seen and unseen, and with all of the faithful of every time and place, we join in this hymn of praise and thanksgiving:
Holy, holy, holy God, power of life and love.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna through the ages.
Blest is the one who comes to bring your justice to the earth.
Loving God ... uniting heaven and earth.
Now, therefore, we gratefully remember: Jesus' birth into our humanity, baptism for our sin, compassion for our suffering, intimacy with our frailty, rebuke for our pride, bear of the cross of death and rising from the tomb by the power of God.
On the night before he died ... "This is the new covenant, remember me."
We proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope!
Loving God ... a sign of your eternal reign in all the world.
This sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving we offer you loving God, through Jesus Christ, our Saviour, in unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
We gather these prayers and we turn to you as our Mother who loves us and
Our Father,
who art in heaven, hallow-ed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day, our daily bread
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom
and the power and the glory
forever and ever,
Amen.
Invitation to the Table
In the name of the One ... These are the gifts of God, for all of the people of God.
Thanks be to God! Amen!
Sharing the Loaf and Cup
Communion will be served at three stations at the front of the church.
Gluten-free bread will be served by the piano.
If you prefer not to come to a station, a team of servers will come down the aisle and serve communion to you in your seat.
Prayer After Communion
Life-giving God, may we, who share Christ's body, live his risen life. May we, who drink Christ's cup, bring new life to others. May we whom the Spirit lights, give light to the world. Keep us firm in the hope you have set before us, so that we and all of your people, indeed the whole of creation, will live to praise your name. Amen.
Singing: #194MV “Bread of Life”
Sending Out and Sung Response: #145MV (verse 2)
Draw the circle wide, draw it wider still.
Let this be our song, no one stands alone,
standing side by side. Draw the circle wide.
Let our hearts touch far horizons,
so encompass great and small.
Let our loving know no borders,
faithful to God’s call.
Draw the circle wide, draw it wider still.
Let this be our song, no one stands alone,
standing side by side. Draw the circle wide.
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