CALL TO WORSHIP
SCRIPTURE READING
PSALM 65:1–4
Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed. O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come. When iniquities prevail against me, you atone for our transgressions. Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple!
ADORATION
CALL AND RESPONSE FROM PSALM 78
LEADER: Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.
TOGETHER: We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.
CONFESSION
CALL AND RESPONSE BASED ON 1 CORINTHIANS 13:4–8A
LEADER: Loving God, Your Word tells us that love is patient and kind. For our impatience, quick-temperedness, and indifference towards others:
TOGETHER: Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.
LEADER: Your Word tells us that love does not envy or boast. For our proneness to envious desires and boastful arrogance:
TOGETHER: Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.
LEADER: Love is not arrogant or rude. For our lack of humility and for our unseemly behavior toward one another:
TOGETHER Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.
LEADER: Love does not insist on its own way; For our self-seeking:
TOGETHER Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.
LEADER: Love is not irritable or resentful. For our anger and our secret lists of personal grievances:
TOGETHER: Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.
LEADER: Love does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices at the truth; For our delighting in the wrong things and our indifference to the truth.
TOGETHER: Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.
LEADER: Loving God, forgive for our failure to love one another well and guide us as we pursue love that bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things, and never ends.
TOGETHER: Amen.
ASSURANCE
READING
The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting. May the God of mercy, who forgives us all our sin, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep us in eternal life.
Amen.
THANKSGIVING
CORPORATE PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
From the Didache, Chapter 10 (late 1st or early 2nd century)
We give you thanks, Holy Father, for your holy name, which you have caused to dwell in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality that you have made known to us through Jesus your servant; to you be the glory forever.
You, almighty Master, created all things for your name's sake, and gave food and drink to humans to enjoy, so that they might give you thanks; but to us you have graciously given spiritual food and drink, and eternal life through your servant.
Above all we give thanks to you because you are mighty; to you be the glory forever.
Remember your church, Lord, to deliver is from all evil and to make it perfect in your love; and from the four winds gather the church that has been sanctified into your kingdom, which you have prepared for it; for yours is the power and the glory forever.
May grace come, and may this world pass away. Hosanna to the God of David. If anyone is holy, let him come; if anyone is not, let him repent. Maranatha! Amen.
WORSHIP IN GIVING
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PROCLAMATION
SCRIPTURE READING
MARK 7:1–13
Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,
“ ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”
And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban” ’ (that is, given to God)— then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
PASTORAL PRAYER
“THE GOSPEL VS. PRETENDING” | MARK 7:1–13
COMMISSIONING
PASTORAL BLESSING FROM ROMANS 5:6 AND GALATIANS 5:1
ROMANS 5:6
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
GALATIANS 5:1
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.