Easter Sunday
April 4, 2021
Welcome
Musical Meditation
Focus: Romans 6:3-11
Lighting the Christ Candles We light our candles or lights.
Voice One: In the beginning, God said,
Voice Two: Let there be light, and there was light!
Voice One: We light these candles today,
Voice Two: Because God is with us in this time and in all these places!
Call to Worship
Voice One: How joyful it is, to celebrate the good news of God’s love!
Voice Two: We are called to be Easter people!
Voice One: Darkness cannot claim us!
Voice Two: Fear cannot bind us!
Voice One: Christ is risen!
Voice Two: Christ is risen, indeed! Alleluia! Amen!
— written by Nancy C. Townley, and posted on the Worship Connection page of the Ministry Matters website.
Invocation
One Voice:On this holy day, God our Creator, our Savior and our friend,
we celebrate our new life in the risen Christ.
All Voices: Through the death of Jesus, the weight of our sin has been lifted from us.
Through His glorious resurrection, we have become sons and daughters of God.
One Voice: As sisters and brothers of your grace, hear us as we rejoice:
All Voices: Alleluia! Alleluia, alleluia!
come, let us praise the living God,
joyfully sing to our Saviour.
~ adapted from a piece posted on Wellspring Liturgies. http://www.wellsprings.org.uk/liturgies/easter_day_liturgy.htm
A Time for Hallelujah
Scripture: John 20:1-18
Special Music
Meditation
Invitation to the Table
Prayer of Communion Elders this month are Judy Halstead and Kyle Sowers.
Words of Institution
The Lord's Supper & Offering Please come forward to receive the bread and cup. You may place your offering in the bowl when you come forward. When you return to your seat, please partake of the bread, holding the cup to take together.
Communion Meditation
Prayer of Thanksgiving: The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Prayers of the People
We praise you, living God,with songs and prayers and listening hearts and lives trying to obey your will.
You have created and are creating, bringing life, hope and love.
You come in Jesus, your Word made flesh, to reconcile and make new.
We praise you, living God,with songs and prayers and listening hearts and lives trying to obey your will.
In a culture where the power death gets all the headlines your Holy Spirit summons us to be people shaped by your power to work resurrection.
We praise you, living God,with songs and prayers and listening hearts and lives trying to obey your will.
We are not sure we believe as fully as we think we should.
We are not sure we trust as deeply as we think you require.
But we bring who we are and what we have become into your presence, longing to know your grace and your love.
We praise you, living God,with songs and prayers and listening hearts and lives trying to obey your will.
Forgive what has gone wrong.
Repair in us what is broken.
Reveal in us what is good and turn us toward it.
We praise you, living God,with songs and prayers and listening hearts and lives trying to obey your will.
So may we follow wherever your Spirit may lead.
So may we love with the love of Jesus flowing through us.
So may we, body, mind and spirit,
be children of resurrection, children of hope, children of grace.
We praise you, living God,with songs and prayers and listening hearts and lives trying to obey your will.
In Christ Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
~ adapted from a prayer posted on Christine Jerrett. https://christinejerrett.wordpress.com/
Challenge for Discipleship
Blessing
We speak in unison.
The Light that was in one place and at one
time, is now in all places and all times, for God has placed the light
in us. We abide in peace! And we go forth into the world as children
of God!
Postlude
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