Tri-City Sunday Gathering Liturgy - April 12, 2026
Pause to reflect on the readings, prayers, and songs we share in together as the body of Christ at Sunday morning worship Gatherings.
CONFESSION & ASSURANCE
Leader: God, we turn to You. We shift the direction of our cries from those around us, to the God of the universe, who knows and cares for us in our pain.
Congregation: How long, O Lord?
Take a moment to orient your heart and prayers to God.
Leader: Father, we bring our grief to You. When sorrow arises, it can feel as though you have left us. Help us to be honest in our grievances towards You.
Congregation: How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart…?
Take a moment to cry out your complaints to God.
Leader: Father, hear the cries of Your sons and daughters. Turn Your ear to us, for You are the source of comfort, hope and help. Remind us of your promises. Remind us of Your character. Remind us of the Cross.
Congregation: Consider and answer me, O Lord my God
Take a moment to pray what you know about the character and promises of God, revealed through Christ.
Leader: Father, even if the answer to our prayer is unknown, we know You are trustworthy, whatever the circumstance. Help us to praise You, even when the answer doesn’t come. Even when the hurt remains, we know You have not forsaken us, and we will declare Your name in every season.
Congregation: I have trusted in Your steadfast love;
My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.
I will sing to the Lord,
Because He has dealt bountifully with me.
Congregation: How long, O Lord?
Take a moment to orient your heart and prayers to God.
Leader: Father, we bring our grief to You. When sorrow arises, it can feel as though you have left us. Help us to be honest in our grievances towards You.
Congregation: How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart…?
Take a moment to cry out your complaints to God.
Leader: Father, hear the cries of Your sons and daughters. Turn Your ear to us, for You are the source of comfort, hope and help. Remind us of your promises. Remind us of Your character. Remind us of the Cross.
Congregation: Consider and answer me, O Lord my God
Take a moment to pray what you know about the character and promises of God, revealed through Christ.
Leader: Father, even if the answer to our prayer is unknown, we know You are trustworthy, whatever the circumstance. Help us to praise You, even when the answer doesn’t come. Even when the hurt remains, we know You have not forsaken us, and we will declare Your name in every season.
Congregation: I have trusted in Your steadfast love;
My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.
I will sing to the Lord,
Because He has dealt bountifully with me.
COMMITMENT
Congregation: Father, we offer you all that we have: our talents, our passions, our personalities, our joys and our sorrows. We give you even our brokenness and our doubts of which we are also stewards.
Leader: We lay our incomplete and insufficient offerings at your feet, remembering that twice you blessed inadequate offerings, fashioning them into miraculous feasts that would sustain crowds in their hard journeys.
We pray that you would likewise receive and bless and multiply our own meager gifts, Jesus, for the benefit of all who you’ve called for us to love this week. Let these humble elements, in your hands, become a true nourishment for those who hunger for you.
And for those who have not yet wakened to their deepest hungers, let our brief time with them be like the opening of a window through which the breezes of a far country might blow, stirring their eternal longings to life.
Congregation: Take this tiny heap of our talents and brokenness alike, this jumble of what is best and worst in us, and meld it to the greater work of your Spirit, using each facet as you will,
so that, even as sunlight coursing through a cracked prism, your grace might somehow be revealed in this city in whatever gloried and peculiar patterns you have fashioned for us to display.
Amen.
- From Every Moment Holy
Leader: We lay our incomplete and insufficient offerings at your feet, remembering that twice you blessed inadequate offerings, fashioning them into miraculous feasts that would sustain crowds in their hard journeys.
We pray that you would likewise receive and bless and multiply our own meager gifts, Jesus, for the benefit of all who you’ve called for us to love this week. Let these humble elements, in your hands, become a true nourishment for those who hunger for you.
And for those who have not yet wakened to their deepest hungers, let our brief time with them be like the opening of a window through which the breezes of a far country might blow, stirring their eternal longings to life.
Congregation: Take this tiny heap of our talents and brokenness alike, this jumble of what is best and worst in us, and meld it to the greater work of your Spirit, using each facet as you will,
so that, even as sunlight coursing through a cracked prism, your grace might somehow be revealed in this city in whatever gloried and peculiar patterns you have fashioned for us to display.
Amen.
- From Every Moment Holy
BENEDICTION
Leader: Church, fix your eyes upon the things that are eternal, and let the transient be left behind. May God give you strength to love and serve those around you this week in the midst of your own joys and sorrows.
Peace be with you!
Congregation: And also with you.
Peace be with you!
Congregation: And also with you.
Sunday's music:
Is He Worthy
Though You Slay Me
Tis So Sweet to Trust In Jesus
Day by Day
Graves Into Gardens
This playlist is updated each week with songs from the previous Sunday's Gathering:
Though You Slay Me
Tis So Sweet to Trust In Jesus
Day by Day
Graves Into Gardens
This playlist is updated each week with songs from the previous Sunday's Gathering:
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