Our inclusive language liturgies set the structure and theme of Sunday morning worship. All liturgies are written by the Celebration Circle Mission Group.
Click here for an archive of our liturgies.
Feel free to use what is helpful from these liturgies. We only ask that when substantial portions are abstracted or used in a written work, please credit Seekers Church and cite the URL.
2025 Advent Liturgy: People Get Ready
GATHERING
REFLECTION
The reality of Advent isn’t that we are waiting for the birth of the Christ Child. The Christ Child is here and is waiting for us to come. He is crying out to us from the border. He is calling to us from the voices of the poor. He is shouting to us from prison. He is waiting for us to live out our faith. He is waiting for us to seek justice. He is waiting for us to pursue peace. Let us go, for He is waiting.
– The Rev. Dr. Susan Henry-Crowe,
General Board of Church and Society (GBCS) for the United Methodist Church,
https://www.umcjustice.org/latest/christ-is-waiting-for-us-796
2025 Jubilee Liturgy: Trust in God’s Presence
GATHERING
REFLECTION
God never says, you should have come yesterday;
God never says, you must come again tomorrow,
but today if you will hear God’s voice,
today God will hear you. …
God brought light out of darkness,
not out of lesser light.
God can bring summer out of winter,
even if there is no spring.
All occasions invite God’s mercies,
and all times are God’s seasons.
John Donne (1571-1631), (revised with inclusive language)
quoted in Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief, by Martha Hickman
2025 Recommitment Liturgy: Daring to Recommit
GATHERING
REFLECTION
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create, p. 1
2025 Summer Liturgy: Divine Recycling
GATHERING
REFLECTION
The Crucified and Risen Christ uses the mistakes of the past to create a positive future, a future of redemption instead of retribution. He does not eliminate or punish the mistakes. He uses them for transformative purposes. People formed by such love are indestructible. Forgiveness might just be the very best description of what God’s goodness engenders in humanity.
Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
LIGHTING THE ALTAR CANDLE
CALL TO WORSHIP
2025 Trinity Liturgy: Discovering Our Hope
GATHERING
ENTRANCE
REFLECTION
There is the absolute hopelessness we face that everyone we love will die … even as we trust and know that love will give rise to growth, miracles, and resurrection. Love and goodness and the world’s beauty and humanity are the reasons we have hope. Yet no matter how much we recycle, believe in our Priuses, and abide by our local laws, we see that our beauty is being destroyed, crushed by greed and cruel stupidity. And we also see love and tender hearts carry the day. Fear, against all odds, leads to community, to bravery and right action, to hope
(Reflection: Anne Lamotte, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope, p. 3)
(Image: Carolyn Marshall Wright John One Five 2024 watercolor on paper 15 x 22 inches.jpg)
LIGHTING THE ALTAR CANDLE