Service for the Lord’s Day, 3rd Sunday in Lent
February 24, 2008: 10:30 a.m.
GATHER IN GOD’S NAME
PRELUDE Jesus Paid It All J.
Grape/M. Hayes
In the
Garden C.
Miles/M. Hayes
WELCOME, REGISTRATION
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
CHIMES, CHORAL
INTROIT & LIGHTING THE CHRIST CANDLE
*CALL TO WORSHIP from
Homiletics
God of rainbow and promise,
God
of the swirling waters of baptism,
God of the dark night of doubt,
God
of comfort and call,
Dwell with us as we journey through this season of Lent.
Lead
us from temptation to trust, from fear to love, from despair to hope,
and from sadness to joy with Jesus Christ.
*PROCESSIONAL HYMN # 426 Lord, Speak to Me, That I May Speak
*CONFESSION OF WHO WE
ARE on
John 4:5-42/wrl
Lord Jesus, you meet us at watering holes,
places of our basic thirst for water and one another:
We have grown careless with water
all living things need for life.
We foul purity, dry up streams by
development, pollute oceans.
And there are personal sins we
despise and sins we enjoy,
and both kinds distance us from one another and
from you.
Forgive and renew us with the living
water you offer in Jesus.
(time for silent, personal confession) Amen.
*RESPONSE # 572 Lord,
Have Mercy Upon Us
*ASSURANCE OF WHOSE WE ARE & THE PEACE from John 3:16ff (The Message)
This is how much God loves the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son.
And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed;
By believing in him anyone can have a whole and lasting life.
God
didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son
merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it is.
Jesus came to help, to put the world right again.
Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted!
Thank
God!
The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Peace
be with you.
(Worshipers express God’s peace in word and gesture)
PROCLAIM GOD’S WORD
LESSON FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT Exodus 17: 1-7 (NRSV)
ANTHEM Let
All the World in Every Corner Sing M. Patterson
WORD WITH THE WISE
LESSON FROM THE GOSPEL John 4: 5-42 (NRSV)
SERMON “Wells…
not
RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD
OFFERING OURSELVES TO
GOD AND THE WORLD GOD LOVES
OFFERTORY When I Survey the Wondrous Cross L. Mason/G. Martin
CELEBRATION OF VOLUNTEERS OF THE YEAR
PRAYERS OF
DEDICATION, THANKS AND ASKING
THE LORD’S PRAYER (Ecumenical) Hymnal P. 16
GO IN GOD’S NAME
*HYMN # 80
Jesus Walked This
*CHARGE &
BLESSING
*CHORAL RESPONSE
POSTLUDE Fantasia
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Next Sunday’s Scriptures: 1 Samuel 16: 1-13; Ephesians 5: 8-14; John 9: 1-41; Psalm 23
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Liturgists |
Rev. Jonathan C. Siehl |
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Word with Children/ Sermon |
Rev. William R. Leety |
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Musical Leadership |
Carol Choir Chancel Choir Sarah Shaffer, Choirmaster |