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Seekers Church

A Christian Community

In the Tradition of the Church of the Saviour

Becoming Prayer - Green Season 2006

 

CIRCLE TIME

 

ENTRANCE

 

REFLECTION

If we knew how to listen to God, if we knew how to look around us, our whole life would become prayer.  … it unfolds under God’s eyes and no part of it must be lived without being freely offered to God.

Michael Quoist

 

CALL TO WORSHIP

Leader:      Praise from all creatures:

 

Voice 1:     Laughers and list makers,

                  poets and plodders and prophets;

 

Voice 2:     The wrinkled, the newborn,

                  the whale and the worm;

                             

All:             From all and from me, praise be to God,

                  Creator, Christ and Holy Spirit.

 

An abstract, colorful design used for the liturgy cover.INVOCATION

 

HYMN

 

SILENCE

 

RESPONSIVE READING

Leader:      Gracious and merciful is the Holy One,

slow to anger, full of love.

God is good in every way, merciful to every creature.

 

Voice 1:     The Holy One is faithful in every word

and gracious in every work.

She supports the fallen, raises those bowed down.

 

Voice 2:     The Holy One is just in every way,

loving in every deed.

He is near to those who call, who cry out from their hearts.

 

Leader:      God grants them their desires,

                  hears their cry and saves them.

 

All:             Let all flesh bless God’s many names,

holy, both now and forever.

 

SILENCE

 

PRAYERS

COMMON CONFESSION   

Leader:      Let us acknowledge our need for God’s forgiveness.

 

People:      While I hid my sin,

my bones grew weak from endless groaning.

 

Leader:      Day and night, under the weight of your hand,

my strength withered as in a summer drought.

 

All:             Then I stopped hiding my sin and spoke out,

“God, I confess my wrong…”

 

INDIVIDUAL PRAYERS OF CONFESSION

 

ASSURANCE

Leader:      Rejoice, for we are pardoned.

                  Our sin is forgiven.

            Those who trust in God

            are surrounded by God’s constant love.

 

All:             Amen.

 

PRAYERS OF THE COMMUNITY

 

JESUS PRAYER

 

The alter has framed colorful abstract drawings, copies of which were used as liturgy covers.HYMN

 

THE WORD

SCRIPTURE

SERMON

 

SILENT REFLECTION

 

OFFERING 

 

The first Sunday of each month we switch to a Communion Liturgy here.

 

SHARED REFLECTIONS

 

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

HYMN

 

BENEDICTION

Leader:      Go forth; laugh; give and receive mercy.

                  Be at ease in your struggles, bold in your loving,

                  joyful in your living and graceful in your life. 

                  Become a song of praise.

 

People:      Amen.

 

 

 

WORSHIP RESOURCES

Responsive Reading: Psalm 145

Confession & Assurance: Psalm 32

 

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