PRELUDE: Prelude on “Brother James’s Air!” by Searle Wright
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALL TO WORSHIP
HYMN: God, Be the Love to Search and Keep Me [Green Tyler]
PRAYER OF PRAISE
INTROIT: Still, Small Voice by Karon Marrolli
O Turn my ear, that I might hear the still, small voice of Heaven. Burst forth in me, that I might be the grace that God has given. Reveal in me the Spirit of God that once you breathed in peace. Disrupt my soul, that I might seek the outcast and the least. Release my heart from comforts that the world, beguiling, gives. Be born in me, that I might help your people grow and live. Creator God! I’ll follow ‘til the seas of time have run to show the Light of Love to all, from dusk to rising sun! I’ll go with you, that I might hear the still, small voice of Heaven.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
SONG OF GRATEFUL PRAISE: Great Are You, Lord [Great is the Lord]
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE LESSON: Matthew 25:31-45
HYMN: Come Now, You Blessed, Eat at My Table [Come Now, You Blessed]
SERMON: “The Distinction That Counts”
ANTHEM: Give Me a Servant’s Heart arr. by Lura Foster
Give me a servant’s heart; mold and bend each part ‘til the form is the image of you. Cleanse me from within, until the vessel’s void of sin and your Spirit completely overtakes and fills me, giving me a servant’s heart. Let me be of help; sacrificing self, generously giving as you would do yourself. Burn the waste away; let me live today as a pure example of true religious faith. Send me to the one lost and all alone. Let me bring the answer; Lord, use me as your own. Let me be your hands, let me be your feet so, with each encounter, it’s Jesus that they meet. Spirit, completely overtake and fill me, giving me a servant’s heart. [Juliene Hufstetler]
PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION
HYMN: The Church of Christ in Every Age [Wareham]
BENEDICTION
CHORAL RESPONSE: The Church of Christ Cannot Be Bound Tune: McKee/Spiritual adapt. Harry T. Burleigh
If what we have we freely share to meet our neighbor’s need, then we extend the Spirit’s care through every selfless deed. [Adam M. L. Tice]
POSTLUDE: Toccata (from “Gothic Suite”) by Leon Boëllmann
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