Rev Ed Sunday-Winters – Service
Hal Parker – Musical Director
Priscilla Bonney-Smith – Flowers
Sunday Service
(8th Sunday after Pentecost)
July 23, 2023
10:00am
*Hymn: #424 (Songs of Spirit) We Walk by Faith and Not by Sight
*Hymn: #223 (Songs of Spirit) Gracious Spirit, Dwell with Me
*Hymn: #371 (Songs of Spirit) Living God, Your Joyful Spirit
Scripture: “Romans” 8: 12-25
Sermon: Hope Rev Ed Sunday-Winters
Prelude: Suite No. 1 by Jacques Paisible (1650-1721) Adagio, Corrant, Saraband
Gina Jenkins and Sonia Dunbar, recorders, Tom Anastasio, gamba, Hal, harpsichord
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship
One: Will you come and follow me if I but call your name?
Will you go where you don’t know and never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown, Will you let my name be known,
Will you let my life be grown in you and you in me?
(The Summons by John Bell, stanza 1)
One: Christ calls us this day and every day to a journey of discipleship that will radically transform our lives.
Many: We hear your summons as you call us by name, and our desire is to say “yes.”
One: Christ calls us to a journey of “follow-ship” that will challenge us as it challenged Jesus to live the truth of his identity. It is not easy to let Christ’s love be shown in the face of adversity or hostility and yet,
Many: We hear your summons as you call us by name, and our desire is to say “yes.”
One: Christ calls us to a journey of discipleship that may bring us into direct conflict with those we know and love, even the members of our own family but still,
Many: We hear your summons as you call us by name, and our desire is to say “yes.”
One: Christ calls us to a journey of “follow-ship” that offers life without fear, a life that transcends our earthly existence, eternally bound in the love and shelter of our Creator, and Many: We hear your summons as you call us by name, and our desire is to say “yes.”
One: Christ calls us to a journey of discipleship that will call us OUT of the shadows and compel us to share the message of God’s Kin-dom for all, proclaiming what we have learned at our teacher’s feet and in the company of like-minded students and,
Many: We hear your summons as you call us by name, and our desire is to say “yes.”
One: Christ calls us this day and every day to a journey that will radically transform us and the world. Christ blesses us so that we do not have to travel alone, but with all others who hear their name and say “yes.”
Many: Let us continue the journey as we worship the One who calls us in spirit and in
truth!
Opening Prayer
*Gloria Patri #36
Glory be to the Creator, and to the Christ and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the
beginning is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.
*Hymn: #424 (Songs of Spirit) We Walk by Faith and Not by Sight
Scripture: Romans 8:12-25 Hal Gray
Anthem: “Lead Us Heavenly Father” by Ian Higginson (b.1959)
Keilah Figueroa Ussi, Soprano soloist
Sermon: Hope Rev Ed Sunday-Winters
A Time of Silence
Offertory
*Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below;
Praise God for all that love has done; Creator, Christ, and Spirit, One. Amen.
*Unison Prayer of Dedication
All that we have belongs to you. You provide for our every need – Now we bring back a
part of what you’ve given to us, In love, we gladly say thank you. Receive our gifts
which we return to you full hearted and freely. Take and use them for your glory and
for the blessing of your beloved creation everywhere. Amen.
*Hymn: #223 (Songs of Spirit) Gracious Spirit, Dwell with Me
Prayers of the People and The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
forever.
*Hymn: #371 (Songs of Spirit) Living God, Your Joyful Spirit
*Benediction Rev Ed Sunday-Winters
*Musical Benediction
“Sevenfold Amen,” #814 New Century Hymnal
Postlude: Suite No. 1 by Jacques Paisible (1650-1721) Boree, Scotch Aire, Minuet
Gina Jenkins and Sonia Dunbar, recorders, Tom Anastasio, gamba, Hal, harpsichord