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Pentecost 4B LECTIONARY GENERATED LITURGY Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Year B 2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27; Psalm 130; 2 Cor. 8:7-15; Mark 5:21-43 Rec. text- NRSV Hymns are from the Australian Hymn Book (AHB) or Together in Song (TIS) or 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 4B: Scripture in Song , CMC Australasia, Unit 9/147 Marshalltown Road, Grovedale, Victoria 3216; Australian Psalms, Bruce Prewer, 1979; Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide, South Australia, 1991. CALL TO WORSHIP: Based on Psalm 130 NRSV When we feel at the deepest point of despair, we cry to you, O God praying that you hear our voice! Where would we be if you kept a record of our wrongdoings, but the wonderful truth is that knowing our failings, you still forgive us - in awe we worship you. We await your word to us, O God, and place our trust and hope in you, for blessing our lives with your steadfast love and freeing us from our sins. Let us worship God with praise and thanksgiving in our hearts. TIS 84/AHB 43: “Give to our God immortal praise” AHB 22: “Lord, from the depths I cry to you” Alternate tune Martyrdom 431 TIS 81: “With the Lord there is mercy” TIS 683: “God! When human hearts are broken” Alternate tune Omni Die 101 OPENING PRAYER We acknowledge, O God, the ease with we can be so overwhelmed by life that your presence becomes difficult to discern. So many voices bombard our lives that we fail to recognise your voice amongst them. But when we remember your past dealings with people, we recover our confidence to trust you in the present and the future. Your steadfast love resonates through the witness of lives touched by grace. Love and grace experienced by hearing your word clearly spoken by Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit. We pray that this time of worship may truly reflect our praise and thanksgiving for these undeserved blessings. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen SCRIPTURE IN SONG 27 “Be still and know...” Sung while seated as a continuation of the prayer. SUGGESTION FOR CHILDREN’S TALK Say that we can use our hands for both good (constructive) or bad (destructive) activities - you could perhaps give personal examples...ask children/young people about things they do with their hands. Ask which do they think - good or bad - would God want us to do? Talk about how the Old Testament lesson is a sad story about the death of the king, Saul, in a battle. At that time, people used swords in their hands to kill each other in battle and there is a refrain which runs all through the lesson: “How the mighty are fallen”. Using our hands to fight or injure each other is one of the very worst things we can do with them. The gospel tells a different story - where a very important person, Jairus, kneels before Jesus and possibly put his hands in a prayerful position to ask Jesus’ help in healing his very sick daughter. When Jesus came to Jairus’ house he took the girl by the hand and she was healed. There was also a woman who had been sick for 12 years who used her hands to touch Jesus and in doing so, she was healed. In these two stories, Jesus is showing us what God is like - how God wants us to live - lovingly, with care. When we use our hands to do good caring deeds, we are following Jesus’ example... TIS 236/AHB 178 “Jesus’ hands were kind hands” PRAYER OF CONFESSION - Invite people to look at their hands. Lord Jesus Christ, you used your hands to heal; to lift up; to bless; to sow kindness and tenderness in desolate lives. Forgive us when we keep our hands at our sides when we could be reaching out in love. Lord Jesus Christ, you used your hands to bear the burdens of others and to feed the hungry. Forgive us when we use our hands to take care of ourselves without any thought for those who are hungry or overwhelmed with adversity. Lord Jesus Christ, you used your hands to welcome and to include those who were considered outcasts in the society of your time. Forgive us when we clench our fists and exclude people simply because are different from us. Lord Jesus Christ, open our hands and our hearts to love as you loved and to care as you cared. Strengthen us to include in our prayers and our fellowship, those who feel excluded because of such things as their race, their religion, their sexuality, their gender, their age, their handicap - whatever it is that creates barriers between people. Lord Jesus Christ, help us to accept people as you accept them, as people made in the image of God, and precious to God. We pray this prayer in your name. Amen ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS Hear the good news: there is forgiveness and steadfast love with God who saves us from all our sins. God has shown this love for us in that, while we still were sinners, Christ died for us. Thanks be to God! PASSING THE PEACE OLD TESTAMENT: 2 Samuel 1: 1, 17-27 EPISTLE: 2 Corinthians 8: 7-15 GOSPEL: Mark 5: 21-43 TIS 737: “Lord Jesus Christ, lover of all” SERMON TIS 210/AHB 141 “O for a thousand tongues” AHB Tune 223 (2) Lyngham TIS 164/AHB 105: “The great love of God is revealed in the Son” SUGGESTIONS FOR PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION Invite people to look again at their hands and then invite them to offer prayers of thanksgiving (aloud or silently) for things that their hands (and other hands for them) have done throughout their lives. For prayers of intercession - remind everyone of the story of the woman who was healed when she reached out her hand and touched Jesus’ cloak. Ask them to picture the scene - then invite them to bring to mind/name people they would like to put in the woman’s place - touching and being touched by Jesus to receive healing. Or The prayers “Our God” (Page 119) and “When” (Page 67) in Australian Psalms OFFERING and OFFERTORY PRAYER Receive and bless these gifts and our lives, O God, which we offer in response to your steadfast love revealed so clearly in Jesus. As he transformed people’s lives with the healing power of his love, so may lives continue to be transformed through these gifts, our love and our witness. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen TIS 512/AHB 437 : “ Bread of the world in mercy broken” ALL TOGETHER WHATEVER 476: “Here is bread, here is wine” INVITATION This is the joyful feast of the Lord. People come from east and west, from north and south, and eat at the table of the Lord. ( based on Luke 13:29) 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 the Lord our God. It is right to give our thanks and praise. It is right that we should always give thanks to you, Holy God, creator of heaven and earth We give thanks that you are not a distant God, But one prepared to answer the cries of those sunk in the depths of sin and despair. You did not abandon them but through the prophets spoke words of hope and justice to them, simply because they were chosen and beloved by you. You revealed how beloved we are by entering our history in the person of Jesus Christ, who touches our lives with healing and wholeness and a love, which like yours, is unending and unconditional. And so, with all the company of heaven and earth we rejoice before you and praise your holy name saying: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of steadfast love, 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. At this table we bear witness to the love which has been poured into our hearts and lives. We remember when Jesus washed his disciples’ feet and sat down at a table to share the meal with them. At that meal - he took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. We remember and we give thanks for such outpouring of love . Pour out your Holy Spirit upon us, O God, and upon these gifts of bread and wine, that they may be for us the body and blood of Christ - his life in us. Renewed by his life and recreated in his image, we set our minds on fulfilling your purpose for us and this world of which we are a part. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen THE LORD’S PRAYER BREAKING OF THE BREAD LAMB OF GOD DISTRIBUTION PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION Holy God, we give you thanks that we have been fed and renewed by Christ’s life in us and we go now to touch people’s lives with his life. Send us forth equipped with the power of your Spirit to spread the message of his love and compassion to all whom we meet. Amen TIS 496/ AHB 417: “Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands...” Alternate tune St Columba TIS 523/AHB 446 TIS 571/AHB 480: “Forth in your name, O Lord, I go” TIS 681: “Lord, let me see” TIS 461/AHB 395: “God, your glory we have seen in your Son” BENEDICTION: Go, confident in the knowledge of God’s steadfast love for you, assured of the healing touch of Jesus upon you and emboldened by the transforming power of the Holy Spirit within you THREEFOLD AMEN |