CENTERING PRAYER
Holy One, we have no claim on you except that you made us and will not let us go. In this hour, suffer with your people once again until we hear your voice in our wilderness and remember whose we are; for we pray in the name of the healer you sent, and by your Spirit, which gives us life. Amen.
CALL TO WORSHIP
Listen. Do you hear it?
The love of Christ is poured out for us.
Listen. Do you hear it?The cloud of the faithful is singing God's praise.
Listen. Do you hear it?The spirit of God is calling us to worship.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
You have called us blessed, O God, and washed us in the waters of grace. You have called us family, O God, and bound us by the presence of your spirit. Forgive us, O Holy One, when we try to forget that we belong to you: when we bind ourselves to the illusion of independence, the myth of supremacy, or the fear of what might happen if we placed our trust in something beyond ourselves. Forgive us, O Holy One, and by your forgiveness, free us from all that keeps us bound. (Silent Confession)
ASSURANCE OF GRACE
† SHARING THE PEACE OF CHRIST
The peace of Christ be with you. And also with you.
†GLORIA PATRI
TIME WITH CHILDREN (Children 5th grade and younger may leave to attend Sunday School*)
SCRIPTURE Mark 3:20-35
SERMON "Who Are My Brothers and Sisters?" Rev. MP Panco
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH – Excerpts from The Scots Confession 3.08
Since the opposition between the justice of God and our sins was such that no flesh by itself could or might have attained unto God, it behooved the Son of God to descend unto us and take himself a body of our body, flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone. By this most holy brotherhood whatever we have lost in Adam is restored again. Therefore, we are not afraid to call God our Father...because he has given us the only Son to be our brother.
Marsha Medley, piano
Invitation to the TableGreat Prayer of Thanksgiving and the Lord’s PrayerWords of InstitutionSharing of the Bread & CupPrayer After Communion
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