(Words for Hymns and Bible Reading follow the call to worship)

Welcome and Notices
Call to worship
MP 50 – Be still for the presence of the Lord
Prayer & Lord’s Prayer
All-age time
MP 988 – How deep the Father’s love for us
Video  –  God will make a way
Reading:  Luke 8: 26-39
CH4 348 – Praise the one who breaks the darkness
Reflection
CH4 724 – Christ’s is the world in which we move
Prayers for the world
MP 59 –  Blessed assurance Jesus is mine
Benediction

MP 50 – Be still for the presence of the Lord

1 Be still, for the presence of the Lord,
the Holy One is here;
Come bow before Him now
with reverence and fear
In Him no sin is found,
we stand on holy ground;
Be still, for the presence of the Lord,
the Holy One is here.

2 Be still, for the glory of the Lord
is shining all around
He burns with holy fire,
with splendour He is crowned.
How awesome is the sight,
our radiant King of light!
Be still, for the glory of the Lord
is shining all around.

3 Be still, for the power of the Lord
is moving in this place;
He comes to cleanse and heal,
to minister His grace.
No work too hard for Him,
in faith receive from Him;
Be still, for the power of the Lord
is moving in this place.

MP 988 – How deep the Father’s love for us

1 How deep the father’s love for us
How vast beyond all measure,
That He should give His only Son
To make a wretch His treasure.
How great the pain of searing loss
The Father turns His face away,
As wounds which mar the Chosen One
Bring many sons to glory.

2 Behold the man upon a cross,
My sin upon His shoulders;
Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice
Call out among the scoffers.
It was my sin that held Him there
Until it was accomplished;
His dying breath has brought me life –
I know that it is finished.

3 I will not boast in anything,
No gifts, no power, no wisdom;
But I will boast in Jesus Christ,
His death and resurrection.
Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer,
But this I know with all my heart,
His wounds have paid my ransom.

Reading – Luke 8: 26-39

They sailed to the region of the Gerasenes, which is across the lake from Galilee.  When Jesus stepped ashore, he was met by a demon-possessed man from the town. For a long time this man had not worn clothes or lived in a house, but had lived in the tombs.  When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell at his feet, shouting at the top of his voice, ‘What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torture me!’  For Jesus had commanded the impure spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was chained hand and foot and kept under guard, he had broken his chains and had been driven by the demon into solitary places.

 Jesus asked him, ‘What is your name?’

‘Legion,’ he replied, because many demons had gone into him.  And they begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss.

 A large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus to let them go into the pigs, and he gave them permission.  When the demons came out of the man, they went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

 When those tending the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and reported this in the town and countryside,  and the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.  Those who had seen it told the people how the demon-possessed man had been cured.  Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were overcome with fear. So he got into the boat and left.

 The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, ‘Return home and tell how much God has done for you.’ So the man went away and told all over the town how much Jesus had done for him.

CH4 348 – Praise the one who breaks the darkness  

1 Praise the One who breaks the darkness
with a liberating light.
Praise the One who frees the prisoners
turning blindness into sight.
Praise the One who preached the Gospel,
curing every dread disease,
calming storms, and feeding thousands
with the very bread of piece.

2 Praise the One who blessed the children
with a strong yet gentle word.
Praise the One who drove out demons
with a piercing two-edged sword.
Praise the One who brings cool water
to the desert’s burning sand:
from the well comes living water,
quenching thirst in every land.

3 Praise the one true love incarnate,
Christ, who suffered in our place.
Jesus died and rose for many
that we may know God by grace.
Let us sing for joy and gladness,
seeing what our God has done.
Praise the one redeeming glory.
Praise the One who makes us one.

CH4 724 – Christ’s is the world in which we move

1 Christ’s is the world in which we move,
Christ’s are the folk we’re summoned to love;
Christ’s is the voice which calls us to care,
and Christ is the one who meets us here.

Chorus
To the lost Christ shows his face,
to the unloved he gives his embrace,
to those who cry in pain or disgrace,
Christ makes, with his friends,
a touching place.

2 Feel for the people we most avoid,
strange or bereaved or never employed.
Feel for the women and feel for the men,
who feel that their living is all in vain.

3 Feel for the parents who’ve lost their child,
feel for the women whom men have defiled,
feel for the baby for whom there’s no breast,
and feel for the weary who find no rest.

4 Feel for the lives by life confused,
riddled with doubt, in loving abused,
feel for the lonely heart, conscious of sin,
which longs to be pure but fears to begin.

MP 59 –  Blessed assurance Jesus is mine

1 Blessed assurance,
Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste
of glory divine!
Heir of salvation,
purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit,
washed in His blood.

Chorus
This is my story,
this is my song,
Praising my Saviour
all the day long;
This is my story,
this is my song,
Praising my Saviour
all the day long.

2 Perfect submission,
perfect delight,
Visions of rapture
burst on my sight,
Angels descending,
bring from above
Echoes of mercy,
whispers of love.

3 Perfect submission,
all is at rest,
I in my Saviour
am happy and blest,
Watching and waiting,
looking above,
Filled with His goodness,
lost in His love.