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.
