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Seekers Church
A Christian Community
In the Tradition of the Church of the Saviour
CIRCLE TIME
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
Because a trinitarian divinity unleashes much power in our imaginations, it can heal or redeem us in this critical time of the planet's life...Classical Christian theology... is guided by three basic articles of faith: creation, redemption, and sanctification. In many respects these articles parallel the persons of the Trinity: the Creator, parent God; Jesus the Liberator; the Holy Spirit who sanctifies.
Creation Spirituality, Matthew Fox, p. 55
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: Come, let
us gather together to worship the God of all.
All: We look around.
Even though we’re very much alike,
We show different faces to the world.
Leader: Let us celebrate the rich wildness
that is at the heart of God’s creation.
All: We are one part of the Body of Christ,
gathered to worship God –
Creator, Liberator and Holy Spirit.
INVOCATION
HYMN
SILENCE
RESPONSIVE READING
Leader: We see faces in meditation,
a hundred faces carved above,
eye lines wrinkled in the hand held light.
Voice 1: If only our own faces would allow
the invisible carver's hand
to bring the deep grain of love to the surface.
Voice 2: If only we knew
as the carver knew, how the flaws
in the wood led his searching chisel to the very core.
Leader: If only we could give ourselves
to the blows of the carver’s hands,
All: Our faces would fall away
until we, growing younger toward death every day
would gather all our flaws in celebration.
SILENCE
PRAYERS
COMMON CONFESSION
Leader: Despair rises up from the depths
and we are blind to your presence.
People: Holy Spirit, we need you to
rekindle the light of hope.
Leader: We are bowed down with re
People: Jesus, our Savior, we ask you to
heal us with your tender touch.
Leader: Too long have we lived with guilt,
our shame blinding us to your love.
All: Merciful One, lift us up from the mire
and bestow your forgiveness upon us.
INDIVIDUAL PRAYERS OF CONFESSION
ASSURANCE
Leader: God says to us:
I desired you before the world began.
I desire you now as you desire me.
Where our desires are joined
There love is, I in you and you in me.
All: Amen.
PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION
JESUS PRAYER
All: Eternal One, Father and Mother of us all,
Holy is your name.
Let justice and mercy fill all Creation
and let us recognize
that every thought and thing belongs to you.
Feed us with the bread we need for today.
Forgive our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Stand with us in trial and temptation.
Free us from the grip of all that is evil.
For you invite us into creation with you,
now and forever. Amen.
HYMN
THE WORD
SCRIPTURE
SERMON
SILENT REFLECTION
OFFERING
SHARED REFLECTIONS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
HYMN
BENEDICTION
Leader: As we go out to love and serve the world,
May the One Who is Three guide us and bless us.
May we become the face of the Holy One
to all who meet us,
and see the face of the Holy Three
in all that surrounds us.
May the peace of Christ and the love of God
and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with us
and a
WORSHIP RESOURCES
Responsive
Where Many Rivers Meet, pp 25-27.
Confession based on Psalm 120 from Psalms for Praying by Nan C. Merrill p. 268
Assurance based on the poem “God Speaks to the Soul” by Mechtild of Magdeburg
translated by Oliver Davies and found in Women in Praise of the Sacred
edited by Jane Hirshfield p.88
Jesus Prayer adapted by
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