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22nd Sunday after Pentecost

10/20/2024

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

CENTERING MUSIC Andante A. Hesse

MOMENT OF HOPE CPR Training

CALL TO WORSHIP

One: We may come here for a glimpse of glory,

Many: But Jesus asks us: “Can you drink the cup that I drink?”

One: The cup of Jesus’ own life: struggle and joy; suffering and hope.

Fullness of life!

We may come here to get close to Jesus,

Many: And Jesus asks us: “Can you be baptized with my baptism?”

One: Baptized into the reign of God,

where the Spirit breaks down barriers among all people

and creates new relationships!

We may come here for honor or fame,

Many: But Jesus challenges us: “To become great you must serve!”

One: Why are we here?

Many: To drink the cup of fullness of life;

To immerse ourselves in Jesus’ struggle for justice and peace;

To learn how to serve so that the world may be healed.

*OPENING HYMN #727 Will You Let Me Be Your Servant vs. 1-3

Will you let me be your servant,

Let me be the Christ in You?

Pray that I may have the grace

To let you be my servant too.

We are pilgrims on a journey;

We’re together on the road.

We are here to help each other

Walk the mile and bear the load.

I will hold the Christ-light for you

in the nighttime of your fear.

I will hold my hand out to you,

Speak the peace you long to hear.

PRAYER CONFESSING OUR NEED FOR GOD’S GRACE

Though you are God,

with all the influence and status that the name implies,

you refused to pull rank,

and parade your power among us.

Instead, you chose to step down into our experience,

living among us, as one of us,

with all the struggle and suffering

that goes with being human.

More than that, you adopted the role of slave,

washing feet, serving people of no reputation or social standing,

and giving of yourself completely.

As incredible as it sounds,

you are the God who serves,

and we can respond in no other way

than to give ourselves to you in praise.

Amen.

MOMENT OF SILENT PRAYER

SONG OF RENEWAL #469 God, Listen to Your Children Praying

God, listen to your children praying.

God, send your Spirit in this place.

God, listen to your children praying.

Send us love; send us power, send us grace.

CELEBRATION OF GOD’S GRACE

And so we know that God loves us infinitely more than we can even comprehend. And that is very good news. Thanks be to God for that grace, that infinite care, the modeling of what it is to love. Amen.

*PASSING THE PEACE

Pastor: The peace of Christ be with you.

People: And with you also.

Pastor: Let us pass the peace of Christ.

People: The peace of Christ be with you. (To one another)

ANTHEM "Come to Me and Rest" by Lloyd Larson.

BLESSING THE CHILDREN AND SINGING TO GODLY PLAY

This Little Light of Mine

This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine!

Today’s Story “The Tent for God”
Kathleen Krentz & Joyclyn Van

Leader: And as we continue our worship…

Congregation: May God be with you there.

Children: May God be with you here.

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

Leader: God in your grace,

People: Hear our prayer

PASTORAL PRAYER

THE LORD’S PRAYER

As we pray together the Lord's Prayer, you are invited to say this in whatever version is most comforting and meaningful to you. Here is one possible version (ecumenical version) that you can use:

Our Father, who is in heaven, holy be your name.

Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

SCRIPTURES: Hebrews 5:1-10 and Mark 10:35-45

RESPONSE

Reader: The word of the Lord

People: Thanks be to God

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION, from Psalm 19 - responsively

Pastor: May the words of my mouth

People: And the meditations of our hearts

All: Be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord,

Our rock and our redeemer. Amen

SERMON Music Leads to Service

Hymn 351 All Who Love and Serve Your City

All who love and serve your city,

all who bear its daily stress,

all who cry for peace and justice,

all who curse and all who bless.

In your day of wealth and plenty,

wasted work and wasted play,

call to mind the work of Jesus,

“You must work while it is day.”

For all days are days of judgement,

and the Lord is waiting still,

drawing near a world that spurns him,

offering peace from Calvary’s hill.

Risen Lord, shall yet the city

be the city of despair?

Come today our judge, our glory.

Be its name “The Lord is there!”

Hymn 346 For the Healing of the Nations vs. 1, 2, 4

For the healing of the nations, Lord we pray with one accord;

for a just and equal sharing of the things the earth affords;

to a life of love in action help us rise and pledge our word,

help us rise and pledge our word.

Lead us forward into freedom, from despair your world release,

that, redeemed from war and hatred, all may come and go in peace.

Show us how through care and goodness fear will die and hope increase, fear will die and hope increase.

You, Creator God, have written your great name on human kind;

for our growing in your likeness, bring the life of Christ to mind,

that by our response and service earth its destiny may find,

earth its destiny may find.

Hymn 753 Make Me a Channel of Your Peace

Make me a channel of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me bring your love.

Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord,

and where there’s doubt true faith in you.

Make me a channel of your peace.

Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope.

Where there is darkness, only light,

and where there’s sadness, only joy.

O, Master, grant that I may never seek

so much to be consoled, as to console,

to be understood, as to understand,

to be loved as to love with all my soul.

Make me a channel of your peace.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

In giving of ourselves that we receive,

And in dying that we’re born to eternal life.

MOMENT OF SILENT REFLECTION

*HYMN OF RESPONSE #326 For All the Saints, vs. 1-3

For all the saints, who from their labor rest,

who thee by faith before the world confessed;

thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest.

Alleluia! Alleluia!

Thou wast their rock, their fortress and their might;

thou, Lord, their captain in the well fought fight;

thou, in the darkness drear, their one true light.

Alleluia! Alleluia!

O blest communion, fellowship divine!

We feebly struggle; they in glory shine;

Yet all are one in thee, for all are thine.

Alleluia! Alleluia!

MOMENT OF THANKS

OFFERING OURSELVES AND OUR GIFTS

OFFERTORY The Longer I Serve Him William Gaither
Arr .Fred Bock

*DOXOLOGY

Praise God from whom all grace flows forth.

Praise Life, all creatures here on earth.

Praise Light who guides us no our way.

Praise Love who forms us day by day.

*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

God, You heap your love upon us

like a parent providing for a family’s needs,

embracing a child with tenderness.

Thank you! Amen.

*CLOSING HYMN #727 Servant Song Vs. 4, 1

I will weep when you are weeping;

when you laugh, I’ll laugh with you.

I will share your joy and sorrow till we’ve seen this journey through.

Will You let me be your servant,

let me be as Christ in You?

Pray that I may have the grace to let you be my servant too.

ANTHEM BENEDICTION A Channel of God’s Love Benjamen Harlan

POSTLUDE Allegro Maestoso D. Canestrari