Order of Service – Sunday 25 August 2024 – PENTECOST 14

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CALL TO WORSHIP

Great and marvellous are Your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are Your ways, King of ages.

Who will not fear You, O Lord, and bring glory to Your name?

For You alone are holy.

All nations will come and worship before You, for your righteous acts have been revealed.

To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honour, and glory and power, for ever and ever. Amen!                                                                           Revelation 15:3-4, 5:13

PRAYER

Eternal God, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, we have gathered in this time and at this place to worship you. In Your time, You created all things, and entwined into their fabric a yearning for fulfilment in You. It is this yearning within us which has pulled us here this morning. Take these moments, O Lord, of time and space, and complete them in us, through Your Holy Spirit. May our labour bring forth a new creation in You. This is Your hour, Christ Jesus, help us to make the most of each precious moment. For in Your name, we have gathered, and we pray. Amen!

A PRAYER OF PRAISE

Glory be to You, O Holy God, You who are love and justice.

We praise You for the gifts You have made in creating the world and human beings in Your likeness.

We praise You for opening up for us a new way of life in Jesus Christ.

We praise Your for calling us, through the Holy Spirit, to follow Jesus Christ and to seek to bring justice for all. Amen!                                                                           (Women’s WDP, 1990)

HYMN:       768(i)       “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow”

RESPONSIVE  READING              Psalm 84                           Page 584

SONG – GREAT IS THE LORD

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

O Lord, You who have measured the heights and the earth in the hollow of Your hand, and created six-winged seraphim to cry out to You with an unceasing voice, Holy, Holy, Holy, glory to Your name.

Deliver me, from the mouth of the evil one, O Master. Forget my many evil deeds and through the multitude of Your compassions grant me daily forgiveness, for You are blessed unto the ages. Amen!

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS

The good news in Christ is that when we face ourselves and God with the awareness of our need, we are given grace to grow, and courage to carry on the journey.

Friends, believe the good news of the gospel.

In Jesus Christ we are forgiven! Amen!

HYMN:       211(i)       “Jesus, Lover of My Soul”

THE APOSTLES’ CREED   (Standing)

I believe in God, the Father almighty,

     creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord,

     who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,

     born of the Virgin Mary,

     suffered under Pontius Pilate,

     was crucified, died, and was buried;

     he descended to the dead.

     On the third day he rose again;

     he ascended into heaven,

     he is seated at the right hand of the Father,

     and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,

     the holy catholic Church,

     the communion of saints,

     the forgiveness of sins,

     the resurrection of the body,

     and the life everlasting. Amen.

TIME TO PRAY

PRAISE

Praise the Lord, all you nations; extol Him, all you peoples.

For great is His love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord.

HYMN:       427       “Lord, Your Word Abiding”

A PRAYER BEFORE READING THE SCRIPTURES

Until we can see ourselves in the words we read and the stories we hear, it is easy to remark on the rest of the world. May the light of these words fall strongly upon each of us, that we can find the truth. Amen!

BIBLE READINGS –                                                                   Robyn Irwin

Ephesians 6:10-20 (Page 1160)                                      John 6:53-69 (Page 1057)

MUSICAL REFLECTION

MESSAGE:              “To Whom Shall We Go?”           Krikor Youmshajekian

HYMN:       201       “King of Glory, King of Peace”

NOTICES –

  • Father’s Day – Sunday 1 Sep – Extended Morning Tea.
  • Movie/ Pizza Nights – Tuesday 3 September 6:30 pm
  • Fashion Parade – Wed18 September 10:15 am to noon.

OFFERING  –  God gave His best. What about us? What shall we give?

OFFERTORY PRAYER

Everything in heaven and earth comes from You, Lord. We give You only what is Yours. Accept our offering, bless and use them for the spread of Your Kingdom. May You be praised forever and ever. Amen!

HYMN:       625       “I Need You Lord, for I Have Seen”

THE LORD’S PRAYER

COMMISSION AND BENEDICTION

May the God of peace, the great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing His will, and may He work in you what is pleasing to Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever.

Go in peace and follow Him, because He has the words of eternal life. Amen!

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