Love one another<\/p>\n
(words for hymns and bible readings follow the order of service)<\/p>\n
Welcome & Intimations Call to worship <\/strong><\/p>\n Leader\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Creator God, In whose image we are made and In whose sight everyone <\/p>\n CH4\u00a0 530 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0One more step along the world I go<\/p>\n 1 One more step along the world I go; 2 Round the corners of the world I turn, 3 As I travel through the bad and good, 4 Give me courage when the world is rough, 5 You are older than the world can be, MP162\u00a0 From heaven you came helpless babe<\/p>\n 1 From heaven You came, helpless babe, 2 There is a garden of tears 3 Come see His hands and His feet, 4 So let us learn to serve Jeremiah 1: 4-10\u00a0 [NIV]<\/p>\n The word of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0came to me, saying, John 15: 11-17\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [NIV]<\/p>\n Jesus continued,\u00a0\u2018<\/sup><\/strong>I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends.\u00a0You are my friends\u00a0if you do what I command.\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master\u2019s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you\u00a0so that you might go and bear fruit\u2014fruit that will last\u2014and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.\u00a0This is my command: Love each other.<\/p>\n CH4\u00a0 510\u00a0 Jesus calls us here to meet him<\/p>\n 1 Jesus calls us here to meet Him 2 Jesus calls us to confess him 3 Jesus calls us to each other, 4 Jesus calls us to his table <\/p>\n MP857 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I, the Lord of sea and sky<\/p>\n 1 I, the Lord of sea and sky, 2 I, the Lord of snow and rain, 3 I, the Lord of wind and flame, MP501\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 O Jesus I have promised<\/p>\n 1 O Jesus, I have promised 2 O let me feel Thee near me; 3 O let me hear Thee speaking 4 O Jesus, Thou has promised, 5 O let me see Thy footmarks, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Love one another (words for hymns and bible readings follow the order of service) Welcome & Intimations Call to Worship CH4\u00a0 530 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0One more step along the world I go Prayer & Lord\u2019s Prayer MP162\u00a0 From heaven you came helpless … Continue reading
\nCall to Worship
\n<\/em><\/strong>CH4\u00a0 530 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0One more step along the world I go
\nPrayer & Lord\u2019s Prayer
\nMP162\u00a0 From heaven you came helpless babe
\nReadings:\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 1: 4-10
\nJohn 15: 11-17
\nCH4\u00a0 510\u00a0 Jesus calls us here to meet him
\nSermon
\nPrayers of Intercession
\nMP 857 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I, the Lord of sea and sky
\nAdmission of new members
\nMP501\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 O Jesus I have promised
\nBenediction<\/p>\n
\nand everything is precious
\nALL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 WE ARE HERE TO PRAISE AND SERVE YOU
\nLeader\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Redeeming God,\u00a0by whose grace we are renewed
\nALL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 WE ARE HERE TO PRAISE AND SERVE YOU
\nLeader\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sustaining Spirit,\u00a0by whose love all creation is embraced
\nALL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 WE ARE HERE TO PRAISE AND SERVE YOU
\nLeader\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Creative, redeeming, sustaining God,\u00a0 your world is miraculous and
\nwonderful your love for us is amazing
\nALL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LET US SING ALOUD IN PRAISE OF OUR CREATOR<\/p>\n
\none more step along the world I go;
\nfrom the old things to the new
\nkeep me travelling along with You:
\nChorus: And it’s from the old I travel to the new;
\nkeep me travelling along with You.<\/p>\n
\nmore and more about the world I learn;
\nall the new things that I see
\nYou’ll be looking at along with me:<\/p>\n
\nkeep me travelling the way I should;
\nwhere I see no way to go
\nYou’ll be telling me the way, I know:<\/p>\n
\nkeep me loving though the world is tough;
\nleap and sing in all I do,
\nkeep me travelling along with You:<\/p>\n
\nYou are younger than the life in me;
\never old and ever new,
\nkeep me travelling along with you:<\/p>\n
\nentered our world, Your glory veiled,
\nnot to be served but to serve,
\nand give Your life the we might live,
\nChorus: This is our God, the Servant King,
\nHe calls us now to follow Him,
\nto bring our lives as a daily offering
\nof Worship to the Servant King.<\/p>\n
\nmy heavy load He chose to bear;
\nHis heart with sorrow was torn,
\n‘Yet not my will but Yours’ He said.<\/p>\n
\nthe scars that speak of sacrifice,
\nhands that flung stars into space
\nto cruel nails surrendered.<\/p>\n
\nand in our lives enthrone Him,
\neach other’s needs to prefer,
\nfor it is Christ we’re serving.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cBefore I formed you in the womb\u00a0I knew\u00a0you, before you were born\u00a0I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.\u201d
\n\u201cAlas, Sovereign\u00a0Lord,\u201d I said, \u201cI do not know how to speak;\u00a0I am too young.\u201d
\nBut the\u00a0Lord\u00a0said to me, \u201cDo not say, \u2018I am too young.\u2019 You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you.\u00a0Do not be afraid\u00a0of them, for I am with you\u00a0and will rescue\u00a0you,\u201d declares the\u00a0Lord.
\nThen the\u00a0Lord\u00a0reached out his hand and touched\u00a0my mouth and said to me, \u201cI have put my words in your mouth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>See, today I appoint you over nations\u00a0and kingdoms to uproot\u00a0and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nas, through word and song and prayer,
\nwe affirm God’s promised presence
\nwhere his people live and care.
\nPraise the God who keeps his promise,
\npraise the Son who calls us friends:
\npraise the Spirit who, among us,
\nto our hopes and fears attends.<\/p>\n
\nWord of live and Lord of all,
\nsharer of our flesh and frailness,
\nsaving all who fail or fall.
\nTell his holy human story;
\ntell his tales that all may here;
\ntell the World that Christ in glory
\ncame to earth to meet us here,<\/p>\n
\nvastly different though we are;
\ncreed and colour, class and gender
\nneither limit nor debar.
\nJoin the hand of friend and stranger;
\njoin the hands of age and youth;
\njoin the faithful and the doubter
\nin their common search for truth.<\/p>\n
\nrooted firm in time and space,
\nwhere the Church in earth\u00a0 and heaven
\nfinds a common meeting place.
\nShare the bread and wine, his body;
\nshare the love of which we sing;
\nshare the feast for saints and sinners
\nhosted by our Lord and King.<\/p>\n
\nI have heard My people cry.
\nAll who dwell in dark and sin
\nMy hand will save.
\nI who mad the stars of night,
\nI will make their darkness bright.
\nWho will bear My light to them?
\nWhom shall I send?
\nChorus: Here I an, Lord.
\nIs it I, Lord?
\nI have heard You calling in the night.
\nI will go, Lord,
\nif You lead me.
\nI will hold Your people in my heart.<\/p>\n
\nI have borne My people’s pain.
\nI have wept for love of them.
\nThey turn away.
\nI will break their hearts of stone,
\ngive the hearts for love alone.
\nI will speak My word to them.
\nWhom shall I send?<\/p>\n
\nI will tend the poor and lame.
\nI will set a feast for them.
\nMy hand will save.
\nFinest bread I will provide
\ntill their hearts are satisfied.
\nI will give My life to them.
\nWhom shall I send?<\/p>\n
\nto serve Thee to the end;
\nbe Thou for ever near me,
\nmy Master and my friend.
\nI shall not fear the battle
\nif Thou art by my side,
\nnor wander from the pathway
\nif Thou wilt be my guide.<\/p>\n
\nthe world is ever near;
\nI see the sights that dazzle,
\nthe tempting sounds I hear
\nmy foe are ever near me,
\naround me and within;
\nbut, Jesus, draw Thou nearer,
\nand shield my soul from sin.<\/p>\n
\nin accents clear and still,
\nabove the storms of passion,
\nthe murmurs of self-will;
\nO speak to reassure me,
\nto hasten or control;
\nO speak, and make me listen,
\nThou guardian of my soul.<\/p>\n
\nto all who follow Thee,
\nthat where Thou art in glory,
\nthere shall Thy servant be:
\nand, Jesus, I have promised
\nto serve Thee to the end;
\nO give me grace to follow
\nmy Master and my friend.<\/p>\n
\nand in them plant my own;
\nmy hope to follow duly,
\nis in Thy grace alone;
\nO guide me, call me, draw me,
\nuphold me to the end;
\nand then in heaven receive me,
\nmy Saviour and my friend!<\/p>\n