ORDER OF WORSHIP | Holy Trinity Community Church

8/16 ORDER OF WORSHIP

Welcome to

Holy Trinity Community

United Church of Christ!

Thank you for joining us in worship today.

We invite you to reach out to Pastor Rob, (He/Him), who is available for pastoral care, emotional support, & spiritual direction. Please contact them at revrobvaness@gmail.com with any comments or concerns you may have.

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Today Pastor Rob shares where he found hope this week while trying to accept the awful reality of the pandemic. Our journey takes us from fear to generosity, a path which holds the key to our freedom in times of great stress and suffering.

Color code to help you navigate our worship:

Worship Notes in BLUE. Music Notes in RED.

1. Feel free to comment in the live thread to introduce yourself & to connect with one another.

2. There will be 3 occasions where we invite you to comment during our live premiere.

- The 1st is during our time in prayer. Enter your prayer requests & praises in the comment section & Pastor Rob will hold your prayers with theirs for the rest of the week.

- The 2nd second time is during our celebration of communion. You are invited to join us in celebrating Communion.

- Right now, go & gather something to eat & something to drink. If can be bread or something else, & wine or juice or something else, & set it aside.

- When the time comes for us to share in the bread of life & the cup of blessing, do not worry, I will walk you through it.

3. Finally, we offer a special blessing at the end of service. If you have a birthday or an anniversary or another significant life event you would like to receive a blessing for, know that you are blessed. If you want to share the reason for your blessing you are invited to comment.

- Together we will share in the eternal & steadfast love of God revealed for all through the life, death, & resurrection of a man named Jesus.

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✠ GREETING

✠ SONG OF PRAISE: A Little More Jesus

– with Charlie Hawks, Melinda Iroabuchi, & Voices of Vision

I need just a little more Jesus
I need just a little more Jesus
I need just a little more Jesus
I need just a little more Jesus
Hey I need just a little more Jesus
I need just a little more Jesus
To help me along my way

Ohhhh
Ummm
Ummm

I need just a little more Jesus
I need just a little more Jesus
I need just a little more Jesus
I need just a little more Jesus
Ooooh I need just a little more Jesus
I need just a little more Jesus
He-e-ey, To help me along my way

Ohhhh
Ummm
Help Me
Ummm
Anybody need him
Heeyyyy

I got to mad and I said to much
Went too far and I almost cussed
No my mama didn't raise me that way
Lord I need a little help today

I went too sad and I'm crying to long
I can't keep sin everything is wrong
Yes my life seems way too hard
But ain't notthin' too hard for GOD

Hee-eee-eee-y

Problems at work, problems at home
Won't everybody just leave me alone?
I can't fix you cuz I'm trying to fix me
I'm tryin to find help so I'm on my knees

Gotta ache right here, pain right there
Not enough power needed way more prayer
Seems like it's so hard to pray
Yes that's why I lost my way

To help me along the way
To help me along the way
To help me along the way
To help me along the way

✠ WELCOME

✠ SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 11: 1-4; New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) You are invited to stand as you are able while worshipping with us in your own home.

One: Sitting or standing, hear now a reading from the gospel according to Luke and what is commonly known as The Lord’s Prayer:

11 He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him,

“Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”

2 He said to them,

“When you pray, say: Father,[a] hallowed be your name.
          Your kingdom come.[b]
3 Give us each day our daily bread.[c]
4 And forgive us our sins,
        for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us.
    And do not bring us to the time of trial.”[d]

Footnotes

Luke 11:2 Other ancient authorities read Our Father in heaven
Luke 11:2 A few ancient authorities read Your Holy Spirit come upon us and cleanse us. Other ancient authorities add Your will be done, on earth as in heaven
Luke 11:3 Or our bread for tomorrow
Luke 11:4 Or us into temptation. Other ancient authorities add but rescue us from the evil one (or from evil)

One: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.

All: Thanks be to God!

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Sermon inspirations:

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

“Justice is love, love is justice That is all we know on earth and that is all we need to know.” – John Dominic Crossman. The Greatest Prayer. Harper Collins – New York. 2010.

“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.” – Mahatma Gandhi

✠ Sermon: Power

[1st in a 4-week series on The Lord’s Prayer in the gospel of Luke.]

✠ SONG OF PRAISE - I Got A Mansion by Charlie Hawks

I'm satisfied with just a cottage below

A little silver and a little gold

But in that city where the ransomed will shine

I want a gold one that's silver lined

I've got a mansion just over the hilltop

In that bright land where we'll never grow old

And someday yonder we will never more wander

But walk on streets that are purest gold

Don't think me poor or deserted or lonely

I'm not discouraged I'm heaven bound

I'm but a pilgrim in search of the city

I want a mansion, a harp and a crown

I've got a mansion just over the hilltop

In that bright land where we'll never grow old

And someday yonder we will never more wander

But walk on streets that are purest gold

✠ PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

As we enter this time of prayer, we invite you to post your prayers in the comments below, while also being mindful that this is a public forum and any confidentiality you are bound to honor. Doing so, we will add them to our prayer list & pray over them in the week to come.

✠ OUR OFFERING

You can help the church financially in this pandemic by contributing in 3 different ways. Holy Trinity Memphis has a cash app account, you can go to our website, holytrinitymemphis.org, or you can send a gift to our PO Box. All the information is pinned to the top of the comment thread for this lives stream.

1. Holy Trinity Community Church now has a CashApp account. Our CashApp code is $HolyTrinityMemphis. Users must create a Cash App account to make contributions to our ministry. There is no fee for either party on this app & can be found at the Google Play Store for Android users or the App Store for iPhone users.

2. Go to HolyTrinityMemphis.org & click on the word GIVE in the upper left-hand corner. This link will direct you to our longstanding PayPal account.

3. Finally, you can always send in your tithe, gift, or offering by mail. Please send to: Holy Trinity Community Church PO Box 2991 Cordova, TN 38088.

Your faithful contributions regardless of if you can join us in worship are essential for our ability to proclaim the gospel. Thank you for your generous support of our mission and ministries.

✠ OFFERTORY HYMN - We Shall Behold Him by Charlie Hawks

The sky shall unfold
Preparing His entrance
The stars shall applaud Him
With thunders of praise

The sweet light in His eyes shall
Shall enhance those awaiting
And we shall behold Him
Then face to face

Oh, we shall behold Him
Yes, we shall behold Him
Face to face in all of His Glory

Oh, we shall behold Him
Yes, we shall behold Him
Face to face our Savior and Lord

And the angels shall sound
The shout of His coming
And the sleeping shall rise from
Their slumbering place

And those who remain shall
We shall be changed in a moment
And we shall behold Him
Then face to face

We shall behold Him
Oh yes, we shall behold Him
Face to face in all of His Glory

We shall behold Him
Oh yes, we shall behold Him
Face to face my Savior and Lord

And we shall behold Him
Our Savior and Lord!
Savior and Lord!

✠ HOLY COMMUNION [i]

Invitation

One: For Holy Communion this morning, I invite you to lend Christ your table.

On the first day of the last week of Jesus’s life, people throughout Judea arrived at the dusty gates of Jerusalem, primed with “Hosanna” in their hearts and Jesus asked to borrow a donkey.

On the Thursday that followed, Jesus rented or was given John Mark’s mother’s Upper Room to celebrate the Passover with the disciples.

On the afternoon of the resurrection, Jesus was invited into a house in Emmaus and used the bread of that hospitality to break and bless.

Lend Christ your table, your bread, your cup and your heart, for, as the disciples told the person who loaned the donkey, “The Lord has need of it.”

Prayer of Consecration

One: We are one bread, one body, one cup of blessing. Though we are many throughout the earth and this church community is scattered, we are one in Christ. In your many kitchens, and living rooms, rest your hands lightly upon these elements which we set aside today to be a sacrament. Let us ask God’s blessing upon them.

All: Gentle Redeemer, there is no lockdown on your blessing

and no quarantine on grace.

Send your Spirit of life and love,

power and blessing

upon every table where your child shelters in place,

that this Bread may be broken and gathered in love

and this Cup poured out to give hope to all.

Risen Christ, live in us, that we may live in you.

Breathe in us, that we may breathe in you.

Words of Remembering

One: We remember that Paul the apostle wrote letters to congregations throughout places we now call Greece, Turkey and Macedonia, and they were the first “remote” worship resources. Our online service has a long heritage. The Communion words sent to the church at Corinth were these:

For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you,

the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed

took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks,

he broke it and said,

“This is my body that is 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.

Sharing of the Elements

One: Let us in our many places receive the gift of God, the Bread of Heaven.

All: We are one in Christ in the bread we share.

One: Let us eat.

One: Let us in our many places receive the gift of God, the Cup of Blessing.

All: We are one in Christ in the cup we share.

One: Let us drink.

One: Let us pray as our Risen Savior taught us in the gospel of Luke:

All: Father, hallowed be your name.

Your kingdom come.

Give us each day our daily bread.

And forgive us our sins,

for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us.

And do not bring us to the time of trial.”

(Luke 11:2-4)

Prayer of Thanksgiving

One: Let us pray in thanksgiving for this meal of grace, rejoicing that, by the very

method of our worship, we have embodied the truth that Christ’s love is not limited by buildings made with human hands, nor contained in human ceremonies, but blows as free as the Spirit in all places.

All: Spirit of Christ, you have blessed our tables and our lives.

May the eating of this Bread give us courage to speak faith and act love,

not only in church sanctuaries, but in your precious world,

and may the drinking of this Cup renew our hope

even in the midst of pandemic.

Wrap your hopeful presence around all

whose bodies, spirits and hearts need healing,

and let us become your compassion and safe refuge. Amen

✠ CELEBRATIONS & A SPECIAL BLESSING

Now is the time for you to enter your reason for being blessed into the comment section so that we may share in your life’s journey.

One: May the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you now, and forever more.

All: Thanks be to God!

✠ BENEDICTION

One: Know that God loves you.

God has always loved you.

God will never stop loving you.

Love is the answer.

Let us love one another as we walk together through these difficult days & know that amid neighbor helping neighbor, we will find the holy & healing presence of our Lord Jesus Christ.

All: Thanks be to God!

✠ Sending Song: Shout to the Lord with Charlie Hawks, Melinda Iroabuchi, & Voices of Vision

My Jesus, my Savior

Lord, there is none like You

All of my days

I want to praise

The wonders of Your mighty love

My comfort, my shelter

Tower of refuge and strength

Let every breath, all that I am

Never cease to worship You

Shout to the Lord, all the earth, let us sing

Power and majesty, praise to the King

Mountains bow down and the seas will roar

At the sound of Your name

I sing for joy at the work of Your hands

Forever I'll love You, forever I'll stand

Nothing compares to the promise I have in You

(My Jesus) To my Savior (my Savior)

Oh, Lord there is nothing like You

All of my days

I want to praise

The wonders of Your mighty love

You're my comfort (my comfort), and my shelter, yes (my shelter)

You're my tower of refuge and strength

Let every breath, and all that I am

Never cease to worship You

Shout to the Lord, all the earth, let us sing

Power and majesty, praise to the King

Mountains bow down and the seas will roar

At the sound of Your name

I sing for joy at the work of Your hands

Forever I'll love You, forever I'll stand

Nothing compares to the promise I have in...

Shout to the Lord, all the earth, let us sing, yeah

Power and majesty, praise to the King

Mountains bow down (mountains bow down and the seas will roar)

At the sound of Your name

I sing for joy at the work of Your hands

Forever I'll love You, forever I'll stand

Nothing compares to the promise I have in You

(Nothing compares to the promise I have in You...)

Oh, nothing compares to the promise I have in You

Thank you for joining us in worship today.

Go to holytrinitymemphis.org to learn more about our faith community.

[i] Online Communion for Palm Sunday was written by the Rev. Maren C. Tirabassi.