10-3-10 Plans

Worship Service Plans

Date: October 3, 2010

World Communion

DVD Prelude: Let the River Flow DVD 2

Call to Worship (in unison)

This is the day which the Lord has made;

            let us rejoice and be glad in it. (PSALM 118:24)

Children’s Message: I’ve Got the Power

Sermon Series: When Worlds Collide: Star Wars Epic Struggle

Sermon: May the Force Be with You

Scripture: 2nd Timothy 1:5-7

5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you. 6 For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; 7 for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.

Communion Prayers:

The Lord be with you.

And also with you.

Lift up your hearts.

We lift them up to the Lord.

It is right to give our thanks and praise.

It is right, and a good and joyful thing,

            always and everywhere to give thanks to you,

Almighty God , creator of heaven and earth.

You have made from one every nation and people

            to live on all the face of the earth.

And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven

            we praise your name and join their unending hymn:

Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,

            heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ.

By the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection

            you gave birth to your Church,

            delivered us from slavery to sin and death,

            and made with us a new covenant by water and the Spirit.

He commissioned us to be his witnesses to the ends of the earth

            and to make disciples of all nations,

            and today his family in all the world is joining at his holy table.

On the night in which he gave himself up for us, he took bread,

            gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said:

"Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you.

Do this in remembrance of me."

When the supper was over he took the cup,

            gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said:

"Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant,

            poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."

And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ,

            we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving

            as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us,

as we proclaim the mystery of faith.

Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.

Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here,

            and on these gifts of bread and wine.

Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ,

            that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood.

Renew our communion with your Church throughout the world,

            and strengthen it in every nation and among every people

            to witness faithfully in your name.

By your Spirit make us one with Christ,

            one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world,

            until Christ comes in final victory, and we feast at his heavenly banquet.

Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy Church,

            all honor and glory is yours, almighty Father (God ), now and forever.

Amen.

Hymns:

176      Majesty          

261      Lord of the Dance     

186      Alleluia (1st stanza)    

95        Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow (Old 100th tune for Doxology)

191      Jesus Loves Me (precedes Children’s Message)

Go Light Your World refrain only (Congregational Benediction)