Proper 5
Worship
A Call To Worship
Worship Aids, Lectionary Year B
Call To Worship (based on Lamentations 3:19-26)
One: The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall!
All: My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me.
One: But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
All: The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;
One: they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
All: "The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in him."
One: The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
All: It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
Unison Invocation
Lord, your mercies never cease, your steadfast love never comes to an end. This morning we proclaim that our hope is built on nothing less than you and your faithfulness. What a blessing, what a friend we have in you. Our problems are real, our lives are complicated, our afflictions seem unceasing, but we have your promises. Today, as your people, we come to praise your name. Amen.
Unison Psalm (Psalm 130)
Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD.
Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!
If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered.
I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning.
O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is great power to redeem.
It is he who will redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
Offering Litany (based on 2 Corinthians 8:7-15)
One: The Apostle Paul wrote:
All: Now as you excel in everything -- in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in utmost eagerness, and in our love for you -- so we want you to excel also in this generous undertaking.
Women: I do not say this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love against the earnestness of others.
Men: For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.
Young: And in this matter I am giving my advice: it is appropriate for you who began last year not only to do something but even to desire to do something --
Old: now finish doing it, so that your eagerness may be matched by completing it according to your means.
Front: For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has -- not according to what one does not have.
Back: I do not mean that there should be relief for others and pressure on you, but it is a question of a fair balance between
One: your present abundance and their need, so that their abundance may be for your need, in order that there may be a fair balance.
All: As it is written, "The one who had much did not have too much, and the one who had little did not have too little."
Children's Benediction
Great is God's faithfulness!
One: The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall!
All: My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me.
One: But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
All: The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;
One: they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
All: "The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in him."
One: The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
All: It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
Unison Invocation
Lord, your mercies never cease, your steadfast love never comes to an end. This morning we proclaim that our hope is built on nothing less than you and your faithfulness. What a blessing, what a friend we have in you. Our problems are real, our lives are complicated, our afflictions seem unceasing, but we have your promises. Today, as your people, we come to praise your name. Amen.
Unison Psalm (Psalm 130)
Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD.
Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!
If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered.
I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning.
O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is great power to redeem.
It is he who will redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
Offering Litany (based on 2 Corinthians 8:7-15)
One: The Apostle Paul wrote:
All: Now as you excel in everything -- in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in utmost eagerness, and in our love for you -- so we want you to excel also in this generous undertaking.
Women: I do not say this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love against the earnestness of others.
Men: For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.
Young: And in this matter I am giving my advice: it is appropriate for you who began last year not only to do something but even to desire to do something --
Old: now finish doing it, so that your eagerness may be matched by completing it according to your means.
Front: For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has -- not according to what one does not have.
Back: I do not mean that there should be relief for others and pressure on you, but it is a question of a fair balance between
One: your present abundance and their need, so that their abundance may be for your need, in order that there may be a fair balance.
All: As it is written, "The one who had much did not have too much, and the one who had little did not have too little."
Children's Benediction
Great is God's faithfulness!
