Order of Service – Sunday 16 May 2021

Jesus Prays For His Disciples

(words for hymns and bible reading can be found below the order of service)

Welcome & Intimations
Call to Worship
CH4 252: As a fire is meant for burning
Reflection to introduce reading
Reading John 17 : 6 – 19
Prayer & Lord’s Prayer
MP 806: Beauty for brokenness
Reflection
Video: 10000 Reasons Matt Redman
Prayer for others
MP 200: Great is thy faithfulness
Blessing

Call to worship

Holy Risen One,
we gather this day
and we come as we are:
fragile yet faithful,
broken yet devoted.
Accept all we bring before you today.
Accept our worship, we pray.

CH4 252 As a fire is meant for burning

1 As a fire is meant for burning
with a bright and warming flame,
so the Church is meant for mission,
giving glory to God’s name.
Preaching Christ, and not our customs,
let us build a bridge of care,
joining hands across the nations,
finding neighbours everywhere,

2 We are learners; we are teachers;
we are pilgrims on the way.
We are seekers; we are givers;
we are vessels made of clay.
By our gentle, loving actions,
we will show that Christ is light.
In a humble, listening Spirit,
we will live to God’s delight.

3 As a green bud in the springtime
is a sign of life renewed,
so may we be signs of oneness
‘mid- earth’s peoples, many-hued.
As a rainbows lights the heavens
when a storm is past and gone,
so may we reflect the radiance
of God’s new and glorious dawn.

John 17 6 – 19

‘I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world.
They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word.
Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you.
For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 
All I have is yours, and all you have is mine.
And glory has come to me through them.

I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you.
Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. 

 While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
‘I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.
I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 
My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.
Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.
 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.

MP 806 Beauty for brokenness

1 Beauty for brokenness,
hope for despair,
Lord, in Your suffering world
this is our prayer,
Bread for the children,
justice, joy, peace,
sunrise to sunset,
Your kingdom increase!

Chorus
God for the poor,
friends of the weak,
give us compassion we pray:
melt our colds hearts,
let tears fall like rain;
come, change our love
form a spark to a flame.

2 Shelter for fragile lives,
cues for their ills,
work for the craftsmen,
trade for their skills;
land for the dispossessed,
rights for the weak,
voices to plead for the cause
of those who can’t speak.
Chorus

3 Refuge from cruel wars,
havens from fear,
cities for sanctuary,
freedoms to share.
Peace to the killing-fields,
scorched earth to green,
Christ for the bitterness,
His cross for the pain.

4 Rest for the ravaged earth,
oceans and streams
plundered and poisoned –
our future, our dreams.
Lord, end our madness,
carelessness, greed;
make us content with
the things that we need.
Chorus

5 Lighten our darkness,
breathe on this flame
until Your justice
burns brightly again;
until the nations
learn of Your ways,
seek Your salvation
and bring You their praise.
Chorus

MP 200 Great is thy faithfulness

1 Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father,
there is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions they fail not,
as Thou hast been Thou for ever wilt be.

Chorus
Great is Thy faithfulness,
great is Thy faithfulness;
morning by morning
new mercies I see;
all I have needed
Thy hand hath provided –
great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!

2 Summer and winter, and spring time and harvest,
sun, mood and stars in their course above,
join with all nature in manifold witness
to Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.
Chorus

3 Pardon for sin, and a peace that endureth,
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!
Chorus