[Please be in a spirit of worship while you are on the phone call. Your phone microphone is very sensitive; what seems quiet in the sanctuary sounds more like a like a thunderstorm or police siren on the phone. Your phone or computer microphone can pick up a whisper or paper shuffling from five feet away.]
Prelude
Announcements
Call to Worship
Opening Prayer
Opening Hymn Christ is Made the Sure Foundation
Call to Confession
Prayer of Confession (unison)
Listening God, take what is closed in us and open it. Take what is distracted in us and settle it. Take what is hurting in us and hold it. Take any and all parts of us that create distance from you. For we are like Peter, O God. We argue what we don’t know. We fear what we cannot see. And we almost always speak sooner than we listen. So open us, settle us, hold us, and forgive us. We long to hear you more clearly. We long to know you more fully. With hope we pray, and with gratitude we confess.
Assurance of Pardon
Gloria Patri
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen.
Passing the Peace of Christ
Prayer for Illumination
Hebrew Scripture Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16
Special Music Draw Me Nearer to the Cross Cathy Bigler, Soloist
Gospel Lesson Mark 8:31–38
Message Again and Again, Take Up Your Cross
Hymn of Response Lord, I Want to be a Christian
THE EUCHARIST
Invitation to the Table
Great Prayer of Thanksgiving
The Lord’s Prayer (Debts)
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 debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
The Communion of the People
Prayer After Communion
Communion Hymn Lord, I Want to be a Christian
Affirmation of Faith Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand Of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.
Stewardship Moment
Prayer of Thanksgiving for our Blessings
Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise Him, all creatures here below; praise Him above, ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen
Closing Hymn Go with Us, Lord
Benediction
