Do Not Worry
Worship
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir
Suggestions:
Use before the pastoral prayer.
Let readers speak from their pews with compassionate voices.
5 readers -- older men and women
Key:
1 = lead man
2 = lead woman
3 = another woman
4 = another man or woman
5 = another man or woman
1: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,
2: what you will eat
3: or what you will drink,
4: or about your body,
5: what you will wear.
1: Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
2: Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor
gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
1: Are you not of more value than they?
2: And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span
of life?
3: And why do you worry about clothing?
1: Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither
toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was
not clothed like one of these.
4: But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive
today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more
clothe you -- you of little faith?
1: Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What
will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?' For it is the Gentiles
who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father
knows that you need all these things.
2: But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given to you as well.
Use before the pastoral prayer.
Let readers speak from their pews with compassionate voices.
5 readers -- older men and women
Key:
1 = lead man
2 = lead woman
3 = another woman
4 = another man or woman
5 = another man or woman
1: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,
2: what you will eat
3: or what you will drink,
4: or about your body,
5: what you will wear.
1: Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
2: Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor
gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
1: Are you not of more value than they?
2: And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span
of life?
3: And why do you worry about clothing?
1: Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither
toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was
not clothed like one of these.
4: But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive
today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more
clothe you -- you of little faith?
1: Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What
will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?' For it is the Gentiles
who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father
knows that you need all these things.
2: But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given to you as well.
