West Sunday Gathering Liturgy - January 26,
2025
Carry Sunday with you into your week by pausing to reflect on the readings, prayers, and songs we shared in together as the body of Christ.
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
Congregation: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”
- from Revelation 4:8 and 5:13 (ESV)
Congregation: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”
- from Revelation 4:8 and 5:13 (ESV)
CONFESSION AND ASSURANCE
Leader: Almighty and most merciful Father, we are thankful that your mercy is higher than the heavens, wider than our wanderings, deeper than all our sin.
Congregation: Forgive our careless attitudes toward your purposes,
our refusal to relieve the suffering of others,
our envy of those who have more than we have,
our obsession with creating a life of constant pleasure,
our indifference to the treasures of heaven,
our neglect of your wise and gracious law.
Help us to change our way of life
so that we may desire what is good,
love what you love,
and do what you command,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Congregation: Forgive our careless attitudes toward your purposes,
our refusal to relieve the suffering of others,
our envy of those who have more than we have,
our obsession with creating a life of constant pleasure,
our indifference to the treasures of heaven,
our neglect of your wise and gracious law.
Help us to change our way of life
so that we may desire what is good,
love what you love,
and do what you command,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
COMMITMENT
Leader: Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours.
Congregation: We thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.
Leader: Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all.
Congregation: We thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.
Leader: In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.
Congregation: And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.
- From 1 Chronicles 29:11-13 (ESV). Adapted from The Celebration Hymnal, Copyright 1997 by Word/Integrity
Congregation: We thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.
Leader: Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all.
Congregation: We thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.
Leader: In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.
Congregation: And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.
- From 1 Chronicles 29:11-13 (ESV). Adapted from The Celebration Hymnal, Copyright 1997 by Word/Integrity
BENEDICTION
Leader: Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word. Peace be with you.
Congregation: And also with you!
- 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 (ESV)
Congregation: And also with you!
- 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 (ESV)
Sunday's music:
All the Poor and Powerless
Great Are You Lord
O Come to the Altar
When I Survey
Goodness of God
This playlist is updated each week with songs from the previous Sunday's Gathering:
Great Are You Lord
O Come to the Altar
When I Survey
Goodness of God
This playlist is updated each week with songs from the previous Sunday's Gathering:
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