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Pentecost 9B LECTIONARY GENERATED LITURGY Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Year B 2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a; Psalm 51:1-12; Ephesians 4:1-16; John 6:24-35 Rec. text- NRSV Hymns are from the Australian Hymn Book (AHB) or Together in Song (TIS) unless otherwise indicated. Worship Leader - normal type. Congregational responses - bold type Permission is granted to churches to use this material in services of worship. This liturgy remains the property of Moira B Laidlaw Additional resources for Pentecost 9B: Scripture in Song , CMC Australasia, Unit 9/147 Marshalltown Road, Grovedale, Victoria 3216; Stories for Christian Initiation. Joseph J. Juknialis, Resource Publications, San Jose, CA, 1992; BE OUR FREEDOM, LORD. Ed. Terry C.Falla, Openbook Publishers, Adelaide, South Australia, 1994; All Together Whatever, Openbook Publishers, Adelaide, South Australia,2001. CALL TO WORSHIP: Jesus said “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty”. John 6: 35 TIS 429/AHB 334: “Break thou the bread of life” TIS 526/AHB 451: “Lord Jesus Christ, you have come to us.....living Lord” OPENING PRAYER - We praise you, O God, for the meaning that you give to our lives in and through Jesus. He is the sign of your deep and everlasting love for the world and we rejoice in his promise to sustain us with his life. We praise you for filling our emptiness with his goodness. May our worship and praise express our thanks, O God, for your gift to us of the true bread from heaven - Jesus Christ, your Son, our living Lord. Amen SUGGESTION FOR CHILDREN’S TALK : If relating this to the Gospel - Joseph J. Juknialis has a story “The bread that remembers” in the book Stories for Christian Initiation. It may be too difficult for very young children to understand, so perhaps focussing on the important place that bread occupies in the diet of so many people throughout the world for nourishment, satisfying hunger, sustenance etc. could lead into talking about Jesus saying that he is the ‘bread of life’ - how he satisfies a different hunger that we have - the hunger to know God. If celebrating Holy Communion today, use the loaf that will be used later as a visual image and link it to Communion. TIS 511/AHB 433: Let us break bread together with the Lord...” If relating the children’s talk to the Epistle - Have a blank sheet of paper- A4 or larger -and invite suggestions from the congregation regarding the different gifts that they - young and old - possess which helps to build them up as a community of faith - as the body of Christ. Write the suggestions all over the page - then fold the page into concertina folds and cut a figure out of the first fold in such a way that when the paper is unfolded you have a series of linked figures. Talk about how faith in Jesus creates the link which holds us all together, and how the different gifts help to build us up into a community of faith and also equip them to talk about their faith in Jesus to others and to look for ways to serve their needs. Put the linked figures where they can be seen and sing: AHB 551: “I sing a song of the saints of God”TIS 236/AHB 178: “Jesus’ hands were kind hands” OLD TESTAMENT: 2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a Introduction to the Prayer of Confession: Explain how Psalm 51 is traditionally believed to be David’s repentance for his behaviour with Bathsheba. Now, it becomes words of repentance for us all. PRAYER OF CONFESSION - Psalm 51:1-12 NRSV Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment. Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me. You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit. (a short time of silence to contemplate the above words) ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS: Through the grace of God, we know the joy of salvation in Jesus, who came into the world to save sinners. Rejoice, then, that those who believe in Jesus are not only forgiven, but are fed and sustained by him. Jesus, Bread of Life, living Lord, we thank you and we rejoice over your care and your love for us and for all people. SCRIPTURE IN SONG 81: “Rejoice in the Lord always” EPISTLE: Ephesians 4:1-16; GOSPEL: John 6:24-35 SERMON AFFIRMATION OF FAITH: Nicene Creed TIS 442/AHB 367: “All praise to our redeeming Lord”; TIS 444/AHB 371: “Dear Shepherd of your people ” SUGGESTIONS FOR PRAYERS FOR OTHERS “When in prison you came to my cell”, p. 83f- BE OUR FREEDOM, LORD OFFERING and OFFERTORY PRAYER Lord Jesus Christ, bless these gifts and our lives offered in response to the blessings we receive as we are nourished and fed by your life - spiritual food which endures and transforms lives. May we bless others by the blessings we receive as we are nourished and fed by your life - spiritual food which endures and transforms lives. May we bless others by being signs of your transforming work in the world, sharing bread with the hungry and witnessing to our belief in you. Amen All Together Whatever 474: “The bread of angels” TIS 535: “I am the bread of life”, TIS 538: “Feed us now, Bread of life” TIS 512/AHB 437: “Bread of the world in mercy broken” TIS 503/AHB 424: “Robe yourself, my soul in gladness” TIS verses 1,3,4,6; in AHB 424 invite people to replace ‘man’ in v.2 with ‘I’. GREAT PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING The Lord be with you. And also with you. Lift up your hearts. We lift them to the Lord. Let us give thanks to God. It is right to give God our thanks and praise. Living God, we offer our thanks and praise to you; creator of heaven and earth, lover of all humanity. You revealed that love when you heard your people’s cries of pain and rescued them from slavery.The signs of your love were visible even in the wilderness as, feeding them with bread from heaven and quenching their thirst, you led them to freedom. You bless us and feed us with the greatest sign of all of your love with Jesus - bread of life. In him our hunger is eternally satisfied and our thirst forever quenched. And so, with all the company of heaven and earth we praise your holy name saying: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest Holy God, this meal which we share today is indeed the celebration of your love for the world love revealed in Jesus, your Son, our Lord. Through his life and sacrificial love, he graced lives with healing and hope, with compassion and power and as if that were not enough, he gave his very life for us. On the night of his betrayal, as he sat at the table and broke bread with his friends, he said: ‘Take and eat; this is my body which is broken for you. Remember me each time you do this.’ After they had eaten, he took the cup, and said: ‘Remember me as you drink from this, for it is my life, poured out for you - the beginning of a new relationship with God.’ God of all power, we praise you for these signs of your everlasting love and pray that you will breathe your Holy Spirit upon us, and upon these gifts of bread and wine, that they may be for us the life of Christ and that we may make that life visible through our faithful witness to him. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen THE LORD’S PRAYER BREAKING THE BREAD We break this bread and take this cup so that we can all share in the life of Christ. God’s gifts for God’s people. LAMB OF GOD DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS - All Together Whatever 476 “Here is bread” PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for making this no ordinary meal. It has been one in which we have been fed and nourished with your life. May we go from here, refreshed and eager, to share your life and love with others. Amen TIS 569/ AHB 478: “Guide me, O thou great Redeemer” TIS 531/ SA76: “Sent forth by God’s blessing, our true faith confessing” TIS 495/AHB 416: “Father, we give you thanks, who planted...” BENEDICTION: May the love of God which gives life to the world, sustain you; May the bread of life, Jesus Christ, feed you with the food that endures to eternal life; May the power of the Holy Spirit nourish and strengthen you in faith. THREEFOLD AMEN |