Order of Service – Sunday 4 June 2023 – TRINITY SUNDAY

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CALL TO WORSHIP

Come before the Lord in holy worship.

We come asking that our lives be remade and our priorities reordered.

Open your hearts and God will open your lives to His way.

We are ready Lord. Make known to us Your will.

PRAYER

Gracious God, help us to remember that we must love one another and remember we are all Your children. Remind us, that if we tune our hearts to Jesus’ heart, we will all come together to create a loving and kind world. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen!

HYMN:       127       “Holy God, We Praise Your Name”

INVOCATION

Into Your presence we come, O God of love and hope. Inspire us with the gift of Your most Holy Spirit as we gather here today. Empower us with a sense of anticipation as to what it is You will be doing among us in this sacred time and in this sacred place. In the name and the spirit of Christ our Lord we pray. Amen!

TRINITY SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER

Father, You sent Your Word to bring us truth and Your Spirit to make us holy. Through them we come to know the mystery of Your life.

You reveal Yourself in the depths of our being, by proclaiming and living our faith in You.

Grant us through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen!

COLLECT FOR TRINITY SUNDAY

Almighty and everlasting God, You have given to us Your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of Your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see You in Your one and eternal glory, O Father, who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen!

HYMN:       138      “Eternal Father, Strong to Save”

PRAYERS

O God, creator and preserver of all mankind: we humbly pray for all sorts and condition of men, that You would be pleased to make Your way known to them, Your saving power among all nations.

Especially we pray for the welfare of Your global church, that it may be guided and governed by Your good Spirit, so that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.

We commend to Your fatherly goodness all who are in any way afflicted or distressed, that it may please You to comfort and relieve them according to their needs, giving them patience in their sufferings, and a happy issue out of all their afflictions. All this we ask for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen!

Almighty God, You have promised to hear the petitions of those who ask in Your Son’s name: mercifully accept us who have made our prayers to You; and grant us those things which we have asked in faith according to Your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen!

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Merciful God, our maker and our judge, we have sinned against You in thought, word, and deed: we have not loved You with our whole heart, we have not loved our neighbour as ourselves; we repent and are sorry for all our sins.

Father forgive us, strengthen us to love and obey You in newness of life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen!

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS

Hear then Christ’s word of grace to us: “Your sins are forgiven.”

Thanks be to God.

BIBLE READINGS –                                                                                   Penny Goodley

Genesis 1:1-2:4a (Pages 1-2)                                                       2 Cor. 13:11-13 (Page1150)

Math. 28:16-20 (Page 898)

MUSICAL REFLECTION

MESSAGE:                  “The Triune God”                    Krikor Youmshajekian

HYMN:       140       “Firmly I Believe and Truly God is Three”

NOTICES –

  • Movie/Pizza Night – 6:30 pm Tuesday 6 June 2023.
  • Bus Trip – Wed 14 June 2023. Please put your name down.
  • Elders’ & Council Meeting – Wednesday 21 June 12:30 pm.
  • Combined Service with LCU – Sun 25 June 2023 9:30 am.

OFFERING  –     Give generously for God’s glory.

HYMN:       511        “Let us Break Bread Together with the Lord!”

MEMORIAL PRAYER

Holy God, with this bread and with this cup, we do as our Saviour has commanded; we celebrate the redemption He has won for us.

For as often as we eat this bread and drink from this cup, we proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

Receive our praise, God almighty, through Jesus Christ our Lord, with whom and in whom by the power of the Holy Spirit, we worship You in songs of never-ending praise:

Blessing, honour, glory and power are Yours for ever and ever. Amen!

BREAKING THE BREAD & SERVING THE BREAD & THE CUP

We break this bread and take this cup so that we can share in the life of Christ. God’s gifts for God’s people.

Take in faith this Holy Sacrament in remembrance that He died for you, and feed on Him in your hearts with thanksgiving.

DISMISSAL

Loving God, we offer ourselves to You as a living sacrifice through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Send us out in the power of the Holy Spirit to live and work to Your praise and glory. Amen!

THE LORD’S PRAYER                                                                           

HYMN:        777       “May the Grace of Christ Our Saviour” (Converse/Erie)

BLESSING

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