The Rich Man and Lazarus
(Words for Hymns and Bible Readings follow the call to worship)
Welcome & Intimations
Call to Worship
MP 651 : The Kingdom of God
Dedication of Offering
All age Time
Prayer & Lord’s Prayer
CH4 692/MP 376: Jesus put this song into our hearts
Reading Luke 16 : 19 – 31
Ada and Andy
Video : Beauty for brokenness
Prayer
CH4 485/MP111: Dear Lord and Father
Reflection
CH4 97; O God you search me and you know me
Farewell to Ann
Prayer
MP 470: My goal is God
Blessing
Call to Worship
God has shown us how much he loves us
While we were still sinners
Christ died for us
He made us his friends through the death of his son
We rejoice because of what God has done
Through our Lord Jesus Christ
MP 651 : The Kingdom of God
1 The kingdom of God is justice and joy,
for Jesus restores what sin would destroy;
God’s power and glory in Jesus we know,
and here and hereafter the kingdom shall grow.
2 The kingdom of God is mercy and grace,
the captives are freed, the sinners find place,
the outcast are welcomed God’s banquet to share,
and hope is awakened in place of despair.
3 The kingdom of God is challenge and choice,
believe the good news, repent and rejoice!
His love for us sinners brought Christ to His cross,
our crisis of judgement for gain or for loss.
4 God’s kingdom is come, the gift and the goal,
in Jesus begun, in heaven made whole;
the heirs of the kingdom shall answer His call,
and all things cry ‘Glory!’ to God all-in-all.
CH4 692/MP 376: Jesus put this song into our hearts
1 Jesus puts this song into our hearts
Jesus puts this song into our hearts
It’s a song of joy no one can take away
Jesus puts this song into our hearts
2 Jesus taught us how to live in harmony
Jesus taught us how to live in harmony
Different faces, different races He made us one
Jesus taught us how-to live-in harmony
3 Jesus taught us how to be a family
Jesus taught us how to be a family
Loving one another with the love that He gives
Jesus taught us how to be a family
4 Jesus turned our sorrow into dancing
Jesus turned our sorrow into dancing
Changed our tears of sadness into rivers of joy
Jesus turned our sorrow into a dance
Luke 16:19-31 New International Version – UK
There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side.
The rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.
So he called to him, “Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.”
But Abraham replied, “Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.”
He answered, “Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.”
Abraham replied, “They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.”
‘“No, father Abraham,” he said, “but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.”
He said to him, “If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.”’
CH4 485/MP111: Dear Lord and Father
1 Dear Lord and Father of Mankind,
forgive our foolish ways;
re-clothe us in our rightful mind;
in purer lives Thy service find,
in deeper reverence, praise.
2 In simple trust like theirs who heard,
beside the Syrian sea,
the gracious calling of the Lord,
let us, like them, without a word
rise up and follow Thee.
3 O Sabbath rest by Galilee!
O calm of hills above,
where Jesus knelt to share with Thee
the silence of eternity,
interpreted by love!
4 With that deep hush subduing all
our words and works that drown
the tender whisper of Thy call,
as noiseless let Thy blessing fall
as fell Thy manna down.
5 Drop Thy still dew of quietness,
till all our strivings cease;
take from our souls
the strains and stress,
and let our ordered lives confess
the beauty of Thy peace.
6 Breathe through the hearts of our desire
Thy coolness and Thy balm;
let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
speak through the earthquake,
wind and fire,
O still small voice of calm!
CH4 97; O God you search me and you know me
1 O God, you search me and you know me,
all my thoughts lie open to your gaze.
When I walk or lie down you are before me:
ever the maker and keeper of my days.
2 You know my resting and my rising.
You discern my purpose from afar,
and with love everlasting you besiege me:
in every moment of life or death, you are.
3 Before a word is on my tongue, Lord,
you have known its meaning through and through.
You are with me beyond my understanding:
God of my present, my past and future too.
4 Although your Spirit is upon me.
still I search for shelter from your light.
There us nowhere on earth I can escape you:
even the darkness is radiant in your sight.
5 For you created me and shaped me.
gave me life within my mother’s womb.
For the wonder of who I am, I praise you:
safe in your hands, all creation is made new.
MP 470: My goal is God
1 My goal is God Himself,
nor joy, nor peace,
nor even blessing,
but Himself, my God;
’tis His to lead me there,
not mine, but His,
‘At any cost, dear Lord, by and road!’
2 So faith bounds forward
to its goal in God,
and love can trust her Lord
to lead her there;
upheld by Him
my soul is following hard,
till God, hath full fulfilled,
my deepest prayer.
3 No matter if the way
be something dark,
no matter though the cost,
be oft-times great,
He knoweth how,
I best shall reach the mark,
the way that leads to Him
must needs be strait.
4 One thing I know,
I cannot say Him nay;
one thing I do,
I press toward my Lord,
My God, my glory here,
from day to day,
and in the glory there
my great reward.
