WORSHIP ORDER
January 19, 2025
WELCOME, GREETING, & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Rev. Scott Sears & Schauna Chambers
PRELUDE
Chorale from Cantata #140 – J.S. Bach
Debbie Bradley, flute; Rhonda Adkins, piano
Acolyte: Cross Bearer:
As the Light of Christ passes you, stand as you are able and remain standing through the Congregational Song
*CALL TO WORSHIP
No matter how far we wander from you, O God,
Your steadfast love finds us.
No matter how unjust the world seems to us, O God,
Your steadfast righteousness sustains us.
No matter how vulnerable our lives seem to us, O God,
Your steadfast presence gives us hope.
No matter how unloved and uncared for we feel, O God,
You hear our cries and answer our prayers.
Thanks be to God!
CONGREGATIONAL SONG
#103 Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
CHILDREN’S MOMENTS
Katrina Lee
CHORAL ANTHEM
Many Gifts, One Spirit
CALL TO PRAYER
Scott Sears
CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER
Long-awaited Jesus,
bring us rest for our weary hearts,
bring us peace for our troubled minds,
and bring us joy at seeing your face.
We anticipate the wedding feast,
the celebration of your presence
and our connection forever with you.
When our lives run dry,
we rest in the hope that you will replenish us.
We await the hour when you come and reinvent the world.
With patience at times and sometimes without it,
we plead with you to transform our lives
and provide what we can never provide for ourselves.
We trust you to take the emptiness of religion
and fill us with the richness of new creation in you.
We submit ourselves to your transforming power
and your wisdom to make us into our true selves,
the people you made us to be.
With joy, we praise you for your wonderful power and grace,
coming once to give us what we needed
and coming again to make all things complete.
We place our trust in you.
Help us also to believe in the glory you have revealed
as we look expectantly toward the fullness of the future you bring.
Come, Lord Jesus. Amen.
~ posted on An Old Song with a New Dance.
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 trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, the power,
and the glory forever.
Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING
1 Corinthians 12:1-11
*CONGREGATIONAL SONG
#114 Many Gifts, One Spirit
SCRIPTURE READING
John 2:1-11
SERMON
Until Now
Scott Sears
*OFFERING AND PASSING THE PEACE
DOXOLOGY
*CONGREGATIONAL SONG
#2227 We Are the Body of Christ
#2226 Bind Us Together
POSTLUDE
Telemann Sonata in F
Debbie Bradley, flute; Rhonda Adkins, piano
BENEDICTION AND BLESSING
Scott Sears
