June 7, 2020 - Gary Johnson & Verna Kocski
Let us worship together as we read!
You can follow along with today’s sermon with Gary & Verna on Unity United Church and Evesham Community Church page:
We invite you to participate in Communion today. Did you have a chance to gather bread and juice? If not, a cracker and some water will work just fine. Follow along with the Communion insert and accept God’s amazing grace and love for you, for me, for us all.
If we can be of any help phone us, if we don’t answer the phone, please leave a message and we will get back to you. We think of you often and hold you in our prayers.
The grace of Christ, the love of God and the Power of the
Holy Spirit be with you.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
“Coffee & Connect” Wednesdays @ 10 am.
OPENING PRAYER:
God of grace, You have brought us from slavery to freedom,
from despair to hope, from death to life! Holy is Your name! We gather in Your presence with gratitude and
praise for all that You have done for us. May the presence of Your Holy Spirit
inspire our worship. May this time of worship, our thoughts and prayers, even
our very lives, bring honour and glory to You. This we pray in the name of
Jesus Christ, whose death and resurrection have brought us everlasting life.
Amen.
OPENING HYMN:
Voices United #469 “We Gather Here”
SCRIPTURE READING:
Romans 6:6-14 Dead
to Sin but Alive in Union with Christ
REFLECTION:
“Stabbing Our Toe with a Potato Fork..!”
A COMMUNION LITURGY:
Lord God, loving Friend and Parent, You deserve our worship,
our love and our devotion, Because You have entered our broken world, You have
joined us on our journey of pain and pleasure, of sorrow and joy, And have
given us access to life eternal and abundant.
We lift our voices to praise You, O God.
We celebrate Your coming to us, Not with political power or military might, Not with glamour or fame or wealth, But in humility and love, gently and with great compassion.
We lift our voices to praise You, O God.
Lord Jesus Christ, we recognise that Your life among us was one of sacrifice, That You came to confront the hatred, fear, violence and evil in us. That You seek to throw over the tables of greed and injustice in us.
Forgive us when we resist Your coming…
Have mercy on us, O God, Do not cease to come to us and to call us to life. Help us to embrace the way of the cross And to live in the power of Your death-defying love. For Jesus' sake.
O Lord our God, We bring You the needs of our world, broken
by division and suspicion, by hatred and war.
We bring You the needs of our land,
the hungry and homeless, the wounded and despairing. We
bring you the needs of ourselves and our loved ones, seeking Your peace and
healing, Your wisdom and protection.
Hear us, O God, and come to us, In compassion and love
rescue and restore us,
And make us a people in whom Your gentle reign is seen. Amen.
(LORD'S PRAYER)
Let us open the gates of our hearts,
That the Sovereign God of Glory may come in…
Let us lift our voices in praise and thanksgiving,
God deserves all honour and blessing. It is our privilege
and joy to exalt the Lord in every place and every moment.
And so, Dear God, we offer You our worship through Jesus
Christ, Your Son.
The Lord Jesus, on the eve of His death, shared a meal with His followers. Taking the bread, He gave thanks, broke it, and offered it to them with these words: This is My body broken for you. Remember Me whenever you eat.
After the meal, taking the cup of wine, He gave thanks, and
offered it to them with these words: This is My blood poured out for you,
Remember Me whenever you drink.
And so, now O Lord, we eat and drink in memory of Jesus and
His great love, And in this simple meal we proclaim His death and resurrection,
giving life to all people.
(THE BREAD & CUP ARE SHARED)
FINAL PRAYERS:
Thank You, Lord Jesus, for coming to us once again through this simple meal of bread and wine; For nourishing our bodies and our souls; and for filling us with hope as we look forward to the eternal banquet. Amen.
CLOSING HYMN:
Voices United #470 “For the Bread Which You Have Broken”
CLOSING WORDS:
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