Sunday Worship Bulletin - Fourth Church

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Sunday, June 29
10:00 a.m. Worship Service

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PRELUDE
Lord God of Abraham (from Elijah)
Felix Mendelssohn

INTROIT
If You Believe and I Believe
Zimbabwean/arr. John L. Bell
If you believe and I believe and we together pray, the Holy Spirit shall come down
and set God’s people free; the Holy Spirit must come down and set God’s people free.

DOXOLOGY
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise God, all creatures here below; praise God above, ye heavenly host; Creator, Christ, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

CALL TO WORSHIP

One: Let’s take a moment to breathe and remember: God is our safe place. God is where we belong.
All: We come to worship the One who gives us direction and purpose.
One: God is with us—right here, right now.
All: Even when life feels shaky, God holds us steady.
One: God fills our hearts with joy and shows us how to really live.
All: Let’s worship God with open hearts, because in God’s presence we find life, hope, and peace.

HYMN

“In Christ There Is No East or West”

In Christ there is no east or west, in him no south or north,
but one great fellowship of love throughout the whole wide earth.

In Christ shall true hearts everywhere their high communion find;
his service is the golden cord close-binding humankind.

Join hands, disciples of the faith, whate’er your race may be.
All children of the living God are surely kin to me.

In Christ now meet both east and west; in him meet south and north.
All Christly souls are one in him throughout the whole wide earth.

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

One: What does the Lord require of us?
All: To live justly and love kindness and walk humbly with our God.
One: But we forget that, like all creation, we are fragile and dependent.
All: Teach us to be grateful for each day we are given.
One: What does the Lord require of us?
All: To live justly and love kindness and walk humbly with our God.
One: But we are selfish and think only of ourselves.
All: Teach us to remember and protect those in need.
One: What does the Lord require of us?
All: To live justly and love kindness and walk humbly with our God.
One: But we judge others for being different.
All: Teach us to give thanks for the gifts they bring.
One: What does the Lord require of us?
All: To live justly and love kindness and walk humbly with our God.
One: But we tell others how they should live.
All: Teach us to listen and learn from others and you, God.
One: Forgive us, Lord. Renew our hearts.
All: Teach us again what you require of us— to live justly and love kindness and walk humbly with our God. Amen.

DECLARATION OF PARDON
One: Friends, believe the good news.
All: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven.

SHARING THE PEACE OF CHRIST
Leader: The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
People: And also with you.

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WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

SOLO
“Zion’s Walls”
Revivalist song/Aaron Copland

Come fathers and mothers, come sisters and brothers,
come join us in singing the praises of Zion.
O fathers, don’t you feel determined to meet within the walls of Zion?
We’ll shout and go round the walls of Zion.

FIRST LESSON
Galatians 5:1, 13–25

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters;* only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the law. Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, envy,* drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.

One: The Word of God for the people of God.
All: Thanks be to God.

GLORIA PATRI
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost: as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.

SECOND LESSON
Micah 6:6–8

‘With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?’ He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

One: The grass withers, and the flower fades,
All: but the word of our God shall stand forever.

SERMON
Bob Hagel

HYMN

“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”

Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heaven, to earth come down,
fix in us thy humble dwelling; all thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, thou art all compassion; pure, unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation; enter every trembling heart.

Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit into every troubled breast;
let us all in thee inherit; let us find the promised rest.
Take away the love of sinning; Alpha and Omega be;
end of faith, as its beginning, set our hearts at liberty.

Come, Almighty, to deliver; let us all thy life receive;
suddenly return, and never, nevermore thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above,
pray, and praise thee without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love.

Finish then thy new creation; pure and spotless let us be;
let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee:
changed from glory into glory, till in heaven we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise.

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

THE LORD'S PRAYER
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors;
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

OFFERING

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OFFERTORY ANTHEM

“Alleluia!”
Thirteenth-century

OFFERTORY RESPONSE
A grateful heart is what I bring, a song of praise, my offering.
Among the saints I lift my voice: in you, O God, I will rejoice.

PRAYER OF DEDICATION
Giving God, it may not be so much, but we give what we have. With you these gifts can work miracles. So with grateful hearts, accept the offering of our lives. Amen.

HYMN
“There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy”

There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the sea.
There’s a kindness in God’s justice, which is more than liberty.

There is no place where earth’s sorrows are more felt than up in heaven.
There is no place where earth’s failings have such kindly judgment given.

For the love of God is broader than the measures of the mind.
And the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.

If our love were but more faithful, we would gladly trust God’s Word,
and our lives reflect thanksgiving for the goodness of our Lord.

CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE
Trumpet Tune in D Major
David N. Johnson

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