Welcome to MCCLA
August 5, 2012 – 9:00 AM
All Songs CCLI # 1506497 Used by permission
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Call to Worship
One: Called to lead a life that is worthy, we gather as God's people.

Call to Worship
Many: Whatever roads we walk, whatever waters we have passed through, we share one baptism.

Call to Worship
One: Called to model lives of service, we share in the building up of Christ's
Body.

Call to Worship
Many: Our backgrounds are different, our habits vary, but we share a common faith in Christ.

Call to Worship
One: Called to be people of peace and gentleness, we offer these gifts to all of God's creation.

Call to Worship
Many: Though each of us is unique and precious to God, our hearts beat as one with hope.

Call to Worship
One: Lead a life worthy of the One who has called you by one faith, one hope, one baptism.

Call to Worship
Many: We gather as God's family at the Table prepared for us, to be fed by the Bread of life. Amen.

Please Rise in Body or Spirit
Bring Many Names

Bring many names;
Beautiful and good, celebrate, in parable and story,

Holiness in glory, living, loving God.
Hail and Hosanna!
Bring many names!

Strong Mother God, working night and day, planning all the wonders of Creation.

Setting each equation, genius at play:
Hail and Hosanna, strong Mother God!

Warm Father God, hugging every child, feeling all the strains of human living,

Caring and forgiving till we’re reconciled:
Hail and Hosanna,
Warm Father God!

Old, aching God, grey with endless care, calmly piercing evil’s new disguises,

Glad of good surprises, wiser than despair:
Hail and Hosanna, old, aching God!

Young, growing God, eager, on the move, saying no to falsehood and unkindness.

Crying out for justice, giving all You have:
Hail and Hosanna, young, growing God!

Great, living God, never fully known, joyful darkness far beyond our seeing,

Closer yet than breathing, everlasting home:
Hail and Hosanna, great, living God!
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We especially welcome you if this is your first visit this morning

Greeting Each Other in Christ’s Peace

Ecclesiastes 4: 9-12
From THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION ©
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™
Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor:
If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.

But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?

Though one may be overpowered two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

We are Worthy

We are worthy, we are worthy, we are worthy, O God,

to receive grace, grace in abundance, grace abundant and free.

For You are our Maker, and we are Your children;
We are created like Thee,

and in Your image, we are created, to live in wholeness with Thee.
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Keys to Abundance: “Own it for Your Community”
Rev. Dr. Neil G. Thomas, Senior Pastor

Help Us Accept Each Other

Help us accept each other as Christ accepted us;
Teach us as sister, brother, each person to embrace.

Be present, God, among us, and bring us to believe we are ourselves accepted and meant to love and live.

Teach us, O God, Your lessons, as in our daily life we struggle to be human and search for hope and faith.

Teach us to care for people, for all, not just for some; to love them as we find them, or as they may become.

God, for today’s encounters with all who are in need, who hunger for acceptance, for righteousness and bread,

bring us new eyes for seeing; new hands for holding on; renew us with Your Spirit;
God! Free us, make us one!
End

Susan Horn
Board Member on Duty

Offertory Prayer

“You’ve Got a Friend”
Dr. Stephan Scoggins

Praise God from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures here below;

Praise God above,
You heavenly host:
Creator, Christ, and Holy
Ghost. Amen.
End

The Lord’s Prayer
Our Creator, Which art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy dominion come, Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

The Lord’s Prayer
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.

The Lord’s Prayer
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

The Lord’s Prayer
For Thine is the dominion, and the power, and the glory forever.
Amen.

Call to Confession

Time of Silent Reflection

Community Confession
All: Forgive us, Cradler of
Compassion. Grace us with the new life gifted in the Bread. Heal us with the joy and gladness of the Cup.

Community Confession
Craft us new hearts, which beat with one another, and as one with
Jesus Christ.
Amen.

Assurance of Forgiveness

Great Thanksgiving
All: And also with you.

Great Thanksgiving
One: People of one faith, one baptism, lift your hearts to God.

Great Thanksgiving
All: We offer our hearts to the
One who has reshaped them by grace.

Great Thanksgiving
One: People of one hope, one Spirit, lift your songs of praise to God.

Great Thanksgiving
All: We lift them to God who has called us to one Body in one
Spirit.

Great Thanksgiving

Santo, Santo, Santo, mi corazón te adora.
Mi corazón te sabe decir,
Santo eres Oh Dios.

Holy, Holy, Holy, my heart, my heart adores You.
My heart knows how to say to You, Holy are You, God.
End

Lord, Listen to Your
Children Praying

Lord, listen to
Your children praying;
Lord, send Your Spirit in this place.

Lord, listen to
Your children praying;
Send Your Love, send Your Power, send Your Grace.

Lord, listen to
Your children praying;
Lord, send Your Spirit in this place.

Lord, listen to
Your children praying;
Send Your Love, send Your Power, send Your Grace.

Lord, listen to
Your children praying;
Lord, send Your Spirit in this place.

Lord, listen to
Your children praying;
Send Your Love, send Your Power, send Your Grace.
End

Make Us One

Make us one, God, make us one.
Holy Spirit, make us one.

Let Your love flow so the world will know we are one in You.

Make us one, God, make us one.
Holy Spirit, make us one.

Let Your love flow so the world will know we are one in You.

Make us one, God, make us one.
Holy Spirit, make us one.

Let Your love flow so the world will know we are one in You.

Let Your love flow so the world will know we are one in You.
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Please Rise in Body or Spirit
We Are The Church Alive

We are the Church Alive,
Christ’s presence on this Earth;
We give God’s Spirit body in the act of our new birth.

As yielded open channels for God’s descending dove,

we shout and sing, with joy we bring
God’s all inclusive love.

We are the Church Alive,
Our faith has set us free;

No more enslaved by guilt and shame, we live our liberty!

We follow Christ’s example and freedom now proclaim,

Destroying myths of doubt and fear in Jesus’ mighty name.

We are the Church Alive,
The body must be healed;

Where strife has bruised and battered us,
God’s wholeness is revealed.

Our mission is an urgent one;
In strength and health let’s stand,

so that our witness to God’s light will shine across the land.

We are the Church Alive,
All praise to God on high.
Creator, Savior, Comforter!
We laud and magnify

Your name Almighty God of love;
Pray, give us life that we may be Your Church,

the Church Alive, for all eternity.
End

Chuck Phelan
Board Member on Duty

Chuck Phelan
Board Member on Duty

Chuck Phelan
Board Member on Duty

“Potter’s House”
MCCLA Voices

Acts 16: 25-34
From THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION ©
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™
Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

1 Corinthians 9: 16-23
Scripture taken from THE MESSAGE ©
Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002.
Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

Mark 4: 26-34
Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE ©
Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977,
1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

2 Corinthians 6: 1-10
Scripture taken from the CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH VERSION
Used by permission.

Draw Me Close to You

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