Pentecost Sunday Celebration May 23, 2021 (Printable PDF)
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PRELUDE: Les Baricades Mistérieuses — François Couperin
CALL TO RETURN TO OUR SOULS
Pastor: Here in the busy city
People: Now let the church be seen
Pastor: Where lesser gods are worshipped
People: In money and machine;
Pastor: Where news is but sensation,
People: The Good News hardly heard.
Pastor: Now let the church take action
People: In living out the word!
Pastor: Here in the busy city
People: God walks on every street
Pastor: In generous or greedy,
People: The honest or the cheat,
Pastor: And daily we must offer
People: The good that goes unpriced
Pastor: With vigor and with vision
People: The lifestyle of the Christ.
–Shirley Erena Murray, New Zealand
HYMN: Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness GTG#291
CALL TO CONFESSION AND COMMITMENT
Pastor: There is something basically wrong with our world,
People: We don’t have to look too far to see that.
Pastor: Look in the hearts and souls of human beings.
People: The great danger facing us today is not the atomic bomb, dangerous as it is.
Pastor: The real danger is that atomic bomb which lies in the hearts & souls of humans.
People: Capable of exploding in the vilest of hate and the most damaging selfishness.
Pastor: That’s the atomic bomb we must fear today.
People: And that is the basis of our confession
Pastor: And our commitment
People: To go beyond the mind that we now have. Amen.
-—adapted from “Recovering Lost Values” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
HYMN: Spirit of the Living God #288
SCRIPTURE: Acts 2:1-21 Romans 8:22-27
SUNG RESPONSE TO SCRIPTURE: On Pentecost They Gathered GTG #289
SERMON: Living Inside the Pentecost Story
HYMN: Breathe on Me, Breath of God #286
WELCOME
CHORAL ANTHEM: Descend, O Heavenly Dove-Mark Schweizer
Prayer, Lord’s Prayer, Congregational Response
HYMN: Holy Spirit, Come to Us (Taize) GTG #284
OFFERTORY SOLO: God Is a Spirit—Charles P. Scott, Emma WitbolsFeugen , mezzo soprano
Offering link
PRAYER OF DEDICATION
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Amen. —Lao Tzu
CLOSING HYMN: Every Time I Feel the Spirit GTG#66
Add a 3rd stanza: Now my Lord does, just what he said
Loves those low down , sees all are fed
BLESSING
SUNG BENEDICTION RESPONSE: May the Love of the Lord (China) GTG #549
POSTLUDE: Chaconne in D minor— Louis Couperin
Participants:
Pastor- Scott Myers
Piano- Emily Davidson
Choir- Josh Stark, Jennifer Weiman, Em WitbolsFeugen
Camera/Facebook/Prayer requests: Deanna Capps
Webpage- Martine Roesel
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