Hymn: I will praise you, O God, from my
soul (John Bell)*
Call
to Worship
Song: Drink living water (Colleen Fulmer
& Rufino Zaragoza)
Prayer of Confession
Song of Praise: The matriarchs’ God and ours (Barbara
Moss / LEONI, Yigdal)**
Prayer
of the Day
Gospel Acclamation
(EM)
Gospel
Reading: John
4:5-42
Sermon
Song: I’ve just come from the fountain (African-American)
Affirmation of Faith
Prayer
Song: God, fill our cup to overflowing (John Bell)*
Silent Meditation
Prayers of the People
Announcements
Offerings
(regular and food)
Song: Woman in the night (Brian
Wren / EM)
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Songs: Oh children of the light (Farsi, English
by EM)
Ewe
thina (South
Africa)
*seasonal for Lent
**seasonal
for Women’s History Month
Forces:
Soprano
Piano/Organ
March 30, 2014
4th Sunday in Lent
Please stand, all who are able.
Song
//I shall praise you, O God, from my soul;//
though my song be at odds with the will of earthly
gods,
I shall praise you, O God, from my soul.
//I shall bow down before heaven’s throne;//
and with joy I’ll confess your great love and
faithfulness.
I shall bow down before heaven’s throne.
//God, your promise is raised above heaven;//
you replied to my please, giving hope and strenth
to me.
God, your promise is raised above heaven.
//Let the monarchs of earth know your name;//
let them learn of your ways and respond in fear
and praise.
Let the monarchs of earth know your name.
//Though exalted, God cares for the poor;//
and God notes if the proud walk the paths God
disallowed.
Though exalted, God cares for the poor.
Call to Worship
Please be seated
Song
Come, you weary, bring your burdens;
Drink living wáter, come unto me.
Come, rejected, come, abandoned;
Drink living wáter, come unto me.
Come, you wounded, bring your suffering;
Drink living wáter, come unto me.
Come to my arms, come to my heart;
Drink living wáter, come unto me.
Come, you hungry, come, you thirsty;
Drink living wáter, come unto me.
Come, you poor ones, come, you lowly;
Drink living wáter, come unto me.
Come, you empty, come, you barren;
Drink living wáter, come unto me.
Come, you aged, bring your orphans;
Drink living wáter, come unto me.
Prayer of Confession
NOT ON PPT
Coming together, face to face with God and with
one another, and seeking to live into full and perfect reconciliation, we
recognize that we have sometimes fallen short of our aspirations and seek
forgiveness. Let us pray.
One: You
have renewed us by water and the Holy Spirit:
Lord have mercy.
All: Lord
have mercy.
One: You
sent your Holy Spirit to create new hearts in us:
Christ have mercy.
All: Christ,
have mercy.
One: You
are the author of our eternal salvation:
Lord, have mercy.
All: Lord
have mercy.
—Silent
reflection—
One: All our problems
All: We send
to the cross of Christ
One: All our difficulties
All: We send
to the cross of Christ
One: All the devil's works
All: We send
to the cross of Christ
One: All our hopes
All: We set on
the risen Christ
One: Christ the
Sun of righteousness shine upon us and scatter the darkness from before our
path: and the blessing of God Almighty, Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer, be
among us, and remain with us always.
All: Amen.
Thanks be to God!
Please stand, all who are able.
Song of Praise
The matriarchs' God and ours
who leads us onward still,
inspire our hearts, unite our minds
to work God's will.
Rock, Saviour, Maker, Lamb,
we sing your praise anew;
the Mother, Father, great 'I am',
we worship you.
Prayer of the Day
NOT ON PPT
Savior God, bring us
back to the Living Water. If necessary, drag us complaining and kicking away
from all the cheap sodas that give momentary pleasure but lasting
dissatisfaction. Confront us again with your uncompromising Christ. May his
Spirit question and probe us until we do away with excuses and diversions and
allow ourselves to drink deeply from the spring of his inexhaustible
truth. In his name and to your glory.
Amen!
Gospel Acclamation
//Cantor: Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
All: Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.//
Cantor: Lord,
you are really the saviour of the world;
give me living water, so that I may never thirst.
//Cantor: Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
All: Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.//
Gospel Reading
John 4:5-42
INCLUDE THIS ON PPT THIS WEEK
Narrator: So
Jesus came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that
Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s
well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well.
It was about noon. A Samaritan woman came to draw water.
Jesus: “Give
me a drink.”
Narrator: (His
disciples had gone to the city to buy food.)
Samaritan Woman:
“How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?”
Narrator: (Jews
do not share things in common with Samaritans.)
Jesus: “If
you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a
drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living
water.”
Samaritan Woman:
“Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that
living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well,
and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?”
Jesus: “Everyone
who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the
water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give
will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”
Samaritan Woman:
“Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep
coming here to draw water.”
Jesus: “Go,
call your husband, and come back.”
Samaritan Woman:
“I have no husband.”
Jesus: “You
are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands,
and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is
true!”
Samaritan Woman:
“Sir, I see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this
mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in
Jerusalem.”
Jesus: “Woman,
believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this
mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship
what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and
is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and
truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. God is spirit,
and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Samaritan Woman:
“I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes,
he will proclaim all things to us.”
Jesus: “I
am he, the one who is speaking to you.”
Narrator: Just
then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a
woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with
her?” Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city.
Samaritan Woman:
“Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot
be the Messiah, can he?”
Narrator: They
left the city and were on their way to him.
Meanwhile the disciples were urging him,
All: “Rabbi,
eat something.”
Jesus: “I
have food to eat that you do not know about.”
All: “Surely
no one has brought him something to eat?”
Jesus: “My
food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. Do you
not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, look
around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. The reaper is
already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower
and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows
and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor.
Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
Narrator: Many
Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He
told me everything I have ever done.” So when the Samaritans came to him,
they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. And many
more believed because of his word.
All: “It is
no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for
ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”
Reader: The
gospel of Jesus Christ.
All: Thanks
be to God!
Sermon
Please stand, all who are able.
Song
I’ve
just come from the fountain,
I’ve
just come from the fountain, yes,
I’ve
just come from the fountain,
that
name’s so sweet.
Oh
yes, I’ve just come from the fountain,
I’ve
just come from the fountain, yes,
I’ve
just come from the fountain,
that
name’s so sweet.
Cantor: O
sisters, do you love Jesus?
All: Yes,
yes, I do love my Jesus.
Cantor: Brothers,
do you love Jesus?
All: His
name’s so sweet.
I’ve
just come from the fountain,
I’ve
just come from the fountain, yes,
I’ve
just come from the fountain,
that
name’s so sweet.
Oh
yes, I’ve just come from the fountain,
I’ve
just come from the fountain, yes,
I’ve
just come from the fountain,
that
name’s so sweet.
Affirmation
of Faith
All: I
believe that our lives are held within the encircling love of God,
who knows our
names and recognises our deepest needs.
I believe that Christ is the divine Child of the
living God,
and that his
grace is like living waters that can never be exhausted.
I believe in the bathing, refreshing, Spirit of God
who yearns over
our welfare as a mother yearns for her child.
I believe that God is in the arid desert as well as
in green pastures,
and that hard
times and disciplines are also loving gifts.
I believe that our journey does have a purpose and a
destination,
and that our path
leads to a final glory we cannot yet imagine.
I believe that in the church we are fellow pilgrims
on the road,
and that we are
called to refresh one another as God refreshes us.
Please be seated
Prayer Song
///God, fill our cup to overflowing
and give us grace to share
all that we are and are becoming,
shaped by your care.///
Silent Meditation
Prayers of the People
News of the People
Not on ppt:
Welcome cards
Service concludes with bilingual celebration
Home gathering sign ups
Coffee on Wilshire
Music at Noon
Farewell for Nancy Spear today
Mission and Future sessions
Offerings
(regular and food)
Offertory Song
1. Woman in the night,
spent from giving birth,
guard our precious light;
peace is on the earth!
Come and join the song,
women, children, men;
Jesus makes us free to live again!
2. Woman in the crowd,
creeping up behind,
touching is allowed:
seek and you will find!
Come and join the song,
women, children, men;
Jesus makes us free to live again!
3. Woman at the well,
question the Messiah;
find your friends and tell:
drink your heart's desire!
Come and join the song,
women, children, men;
Jesus makes us free to live again!
4. Woman at the feast,
let the righteous stare;
come and go in peace;
love him with your hair!
Come and join the song,
women, children, men;
Jesus makes us free to live again!
5. Woman in the house,
nurtured to be meek,
leave your second place;
listen, think and speak!
Come and join the song,
women, children, men;
Jesus makes us free to live again!
6. Women on the road,
welcomed and restored,
travel far and wide;
witness to the Lord!
Come and join the song,
women, children, men;
Jesus makes us free to live again!
7. Women on the hill,
stand when men have fled!
Christ needs loving still,
though your hope is dead.
Come and join the song,
women, children, men;
Jesus makes us free to live again!
8. Women in the dawn,
care and spices bring,
earliest to mourn;
earliest to sing!
Come and join the song,
women, children, men;
Jesus makes us free to live again!
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Please stand, all who are able.
Song
Oh children of the light,
together raise a joyful song.
With gladness and with gratitude
sing praises unto God.
In
Jesus’ holy presence raise your hands and hearts,
in
praise and thanks to Jesus Christ, the savior of the world;
in
praise and thanks to Christ, the savior of the world.
Oh children of the light,
together raise a joyful song.
With gladness and with gratitude
sing praises unto God.
You
chosen ones of God, be bold and strong in faith;
Accept
the victory of your God and claim it as your own;
accept
the victory and claim it as your own.
Oh children of the light,
together raise a joyful song.
With gladness and with gratitude
sing praises unto God.
Beloved
ones of God, into God’s pasture come,
in
sorrow and in trouble call upon the Chosen One of God;
in
good times and in bad, God hears your every prayer.
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Elyse:
////Ewe
thina.////
Sizowa
nyathela amadimoni.
All:
////We
walk his way.////
Unarmed
he faces forces of demons and death;
we
walk his way.
////We
walk his way.////
He
breaks the bonds of hell, dying on the cross;
we
walk his way.
////We
walk his way.////
The
tree of freedom blooms by his empty grave;
we
walk his way.
////We
walk his way.////
