13.01.20 Ordinary Time 2A English

Prelude:  Pastorale (Andrea Brieli)

Hymn:  I’m gonna march if the Spirit says, “March” (U.S. freedom song)
Call to Worship
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, Pledge of Nonviolence

Song:  We are going (Sol Amarfio, Osibisa)

Prayer of Confession
Song of Praise:  We are on the road (South Africa)*

Prayer of the Day

Preparation Song:  One (U2)

Reading from the Early Church: 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon:  (Rev. Elizabeth Gibbs Zehnder)
Song:  We are (Ysaye Barnwell) 

Affirmation of Faith in the words of Dr. King

Prayer Song:  Within our darkest night (Taizé)*
Silent Meditation
Prayers of the People
Announcements

Song:  When the Christ walked the earth (John Bell / PERSONENT HODIE, Piæ Cantiones)

*Seasonal for Ordinary Time/Epiphany

Forces:
Soprano

Organ/Piano

January 20, 2013

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Please stand, all who are able.

Song

//I’m gonna march if the Spirit says, “March”.//

If the Spirit says, “March”, I’m gonna march, O God.

I’m gonna march if the Spirit says, “March”.

Call to Worship

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, Pledge of Nonviolence

One:  As you prepare to march meditate on the life and teachings of Jesus

All:  Remember the nonviolent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory.

One:  Walk and talk in the manner of love; for God is love.

All:  Pray daily to be used by God that all men and women might be free.

One:  Sacrifice personal wishes that all might be free.

All:  Observe with friend and foes the ordinary rules of courtesy.

One:  Perform regular service for others and the world.

All:  Refrain from violence of fist, tongue and heart.

One:  Strive to be in good spiritual and bodily health.

All:  This is our work.  This is our worship.  Amen!

Please be seated

Song

We are going
Heaven knows where we are going
We know we will

We will get there
Heaven knows how we will get there
We know we will
//It will be hard we know
And the road will be muddy and rough
But we'll get there
Heaven knows how we will get there
We know we will//

Prayer of Confession

One:  When we treat our faith as nothing more than a self-help system

and You, God, as simply a cure for whatever ails us,

All:  Where is the love?

One:  When we use the gifts our planet gives us

with little care for our wastefulness and destruction,

All:  Where is the love?

One:  When we deny and disdain truths and practices

that others hold dear,

All:  Where is the love?

One:  When we ignore the sickness, the loneliness,

the struggle and the vulnerability of others,

because it doesn’t affect us,

All:  Where is the love?

One:  When we berate ourselves for our failures,

or holds ourselves to impossible and trivial standards

All:  Where is the love?

—Silent reflection—

All:  Forgive us, Lord,

and teach us and our world

what it really means

to love.

Amen.

Song of Praise

1.  //We are on the road (wo), we are on the road,//

//On our way to heaven, we are on the road.//

2.  //We shall sing God’s praise (wo), we shall sing God’s praise,//

//On our way to heaven, we shall sing God’s praise.//

3.  //We shall live the word (wo), we shall live the word.//

//On our way to heaven, we shall live the word.//

4.  Hallelujah, amen (wo), hallelujah, amen.

//On our way to heaven, hallelujah, amen.//

Prayer of the Day

NOT ON PPT

God our extravagant Friend, you have called us to live generously in an era of miserliness, a time when diminishing services must compete with  increased profits to the greedy to dominate the commerce of our nation. In the clear sanity of this house of prayer, so infect us with the Spirit of Christ, that we may go against the national trend and live abundantly, to your glory.

Amen.

Please be seated

Preparation Song

One (U2)

Reading from the Early Church

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

NOT ON PPT

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says “Let Jesus be cursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same God; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.

Reader:  Hear what the Spirit is saying to you today.

All:  Thanks be to God!

Please be seated

Sermon

Please stand, all who are able.

Song

//For each child that's born, a morning star rises and sings to the universe who we are.//

We are our grandmothers' prayers. We are our grandfathers' dreamings. We are the breath of the ancestors. We are the spirit of God.

//For each child that's born, a morning star rises and sings to the universe who we are.//

We are Mothers of courage, Fathers of time, Daughters of dust, the sons of great visions, Sisters of mercy, Brothers of love, lovers of life, Builders of nations, Seekers of truth, Keepers of faith, Makers of peace, Wisdom of ages.

//For each child that's born, a morning star rises and sings to the universe who we are.//

Affirmation Based on the Writings of Dr. King

One:  I refuse to believe that we are unable to influence the events which surround us. 

All:  I refuse to believe that we are so bound to racism and war, that peace, brotherhood and sisterhood are not possible.  

One:  I believe there is an urgent need for people to overcome oppression and violence, without resorting to violence and oppression. 

All:  I believe that we need to discover a way to live together in peace, a way which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of this way is love. 

One:  I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.  I believe that right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. 

All:  I believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. 

One:  I believe that what self-centered people have torn down, other-centered people can build up. 

All:  By the goodness of God at work within people, I believe that brokenness can be healed.  "And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together, and everyone will sit under their own vine and fig tree, and none shall be afraid."  Amen.

Please be seated

Prayer Song

Within our darkest night

///Within our darkest night, you kindle the fire that never dies away,

never dies away.

Within our darkest night, you kindle the fire that never dies away,

never dies away.///

Silent Meditation

Prayers of the People

One: God of grace,

All:  hear our prayer.

News of the People

Not on ppt:

Welcome cards

Service concludes with bilingual celebration

Please stand, all who are able.

Song

1.  When the Christ walked the earth,

all the world found its worth;

as declared at his birth,

God became our neighbor,

granting us with favor.

Power to speak and heal,

grace to know what’s real,

wisdom, insight and faith,

love and understanding.

2.  Through his life, through his death,

through each gesture and breath,

Jesus joined faith and deed,

model for our caring,

showing and yet caring.

Power to speak and heal,

grace to know what’s real,

wisdom, insight and faith,

love and understanding.

3.  Jesus loves all his friends

and that love never ends;

to his Church gifts he sends

through the Holy Spirit.

These we still inherit:

Power to speak and heal,

grace to know what’s real,

wisdom, insight and faith,

love and understanding.

4.  Sing and smile and rejoice,

clap your hands, raise your voice;

for, with unnerving choice,

God, in Christ, has found us,

and displays around us

Power to speak and heal,

grace to know what’s real,

wisdom, insight and faith,

love and understanding.

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1.  O sing a song of Bethlehem, of shepherds watching there,
And of the news that came to them from angels in the air.
The light that shone on Bethlehem fills all the world today;
Of Jesus’ birth and peace on earth the angels sing alway.

2.  O sing a song of Nazareth, of days of joy and sun;
O sing of fragrant flowers’ breath, and of the sinless One.
For now the flowers of Nazareth in every heart may grow;
Now spreads the fame of His dear Name on all the winds that blow.

3.  O sing a song of Galilee, of lake and woods and hill,
Of One who walked upon the sea and bade the waves be still.
For though like waves on Galilee, rough seas of trouble roll,
When faith has heard the Savior’s word, falls peace upon the soul.

4.  O sing a song of Calvary, its glory and dismay,
Of One who hung upon the tree, and took our sins away.
For Christ who died on Calvary is risen from the grave,
God’s sovereign child, who reconciled, is mighty now to save.