Service for 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time

                                                   February 7, 2010, 10:30 a.m.

 

                                                   GATHER IN GOD’S NAME

 

IN SILENCE                            Paul, an apostle, follower, of the Lord Jesus Christ in 1 Corinthians 15:10

            But by the grace of God I am what I am,

            and God’s grace toward me has not been in vain.

 

OPENING SENTENCES (unison)                                                                      Psalm 138:8a

            The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me;

            your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever.

 

PRELUDE                                  Variations on Holy Manna                                 C. Callahan

 

WELCOME, ANNOUNCEMENTS, REGISTRATION

            Minute for Boy Scouting                                                                        Bill Burchfield

 

CHIMES & CHORAL CALL TO WORSHIP

             LIGHTING THE CHRIST CANDLE

 

*CALL TO WORSHIP                                                                  on 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11/wrl

 

            This is the good news we have received and proclaim,

            in which we stand and through which we are being saved:

                 that Christ died for our sins in accordance with scripture,

                 that he was buried,

                 and was raised on the third day in accordance with scripture;

                 and that he appeared to Cephas and the good women, then to the twelve.

                 Then he appeared to many faithful sisters and brothers, and to James;

                 then to all the apostles, and later to the apostle Paul.

            Standing in this good news, confident in faith,

            we gather to pass on to others this grace, and to praise God.

 

*HYMN # 344                                                                                  Christ of the Upward Way

 

*CONFESSION OF WHO WE ARE                                                                     on Luke 5

            Jesus says to the fishermen, “Put out into the deep water….”

            God whose Son calls disciples to fish for people:

                 we’re creatures whose comfort is in the shallows—

                 we maintain appearance and avoid core matters;

                 we seek quick fix, and forsake long obedience;

                 we listen to so many experts, and grow deaf to your voice.

            Compel us, Lord, from comfort zones to deep water.

                 Tangle our nets with others’ ways.

                 Move us to answer your call, knowing that we are in the same boat

with Jesus, who protects, preserves, and rescues those he calls.

                                       (time for silent, personal confession)  Amen.

 

*ASSURANCE OF WHOSE WE ARE & THE PEACE from the Heidelberg Catechism:

 

            I believe that the Son of God though his Spirit and Word,

            out of the entire human race, from the beginning of the world to its end,

            gathers, protects, and preserves for himself a community chosen for eternal life

                 and united in true faith.

            And of this community I am and always will be a living member.

 

            In that faith, we thank God for mercy,

and spread that mercy in words and gestures of peace.

The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

     Peace be with you.

 

The Heidelberg Catechism (1563), one of the standards in our Book of Confessions, was the first Reformed

confession to appear in America, carried by Dutch explorers to Manhattan Island in 1609, and used by Reformed

Christians in the middle colonies who had left Scotland, Hungary, and Germany.

 

                                                   PROCLAIM GOD’S WORD

 

OLD TESTAMENT LESSON                                                               Isaiah 6: 1-13 (NRSV)

                                                                                                                   Pew Bible pg. 597-98

 

ANTHEM                                        The Gospel of Grace                                   arr. M. Hayes

                                         (Amazing Grace & I’m New Born Again)

 

WORD WITH THE YOUNG

 

NEW TESTAMENT LESSON                                                               Luke 5: 1-11 (NRSV)

                                                                                                                            Pew Bible p. 58

 

SERMON                                                                                                       “Knees and No’s”

 

                                                 RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD

 

CALL TO OFFER OURSELVES

            OFFERTORY   We Are Singing for the Lord Is Our Light                 arr. H. Hopson

                                  (Based on South African Freedom Song Siyahamba)

 

PRAYER DEDICATIN, AND THANKING AND ASKING GOD,

                                                                                   THE LORD’S PRAYER     Hymnal p. 16

 

                                                        GO IN GOD’S NAME

 

*HYMN # 372                                                                          Lord, I Want to Be a Christian

 

*CHARGE & BLESSING

 

CHORAL RESPONSE

 

POSTLUDE                            We Are Marching (Siyahamba)                       arr. R. Schaffer

                                  (Note that some will be seated and others depart in joy and silence.)

 

                                                        WORSHIP LEADERS

 

Liturgists

Rev. Michael Ludwig, Diane Kier

Sermon

Rev. William R. Leety

Word with Children

Rev. Michael Ludwig

Musical Leadership

Westminster & Chancel Choirs

Sarah Shaffer, Choirmaster 

Nancy Deeth, Organist/Pianist