SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
- Opening Song: Take, O Take Me as I Am
- Hymn: Lord, You Give the Great Commission (Common Praise #433 – words below)
- Greeting, Land Acknowledgment, Collect of the Day
- First Reading: Ezekiel 2:1-5 (reading in French)
- Psalm 123: Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for his mercy.
- Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 12:2-10
- Hymn: God, The Creator (Common Praise #245 – words below)
- Gospel: Mark 6:1-13
- Sermon: Pat Johnston
- Prayers of the People
- Hymn: Will You Come and Follow Me (Common Praise #430 – words below)
- The Lord’s Prayer
- Doxology & Blessing
- Hymn: Alleluia – Glory to God (Common Praise #457 – words below)
- Dismissal
LORD, YOU GIVE THE GREAT COMMISSION
Lord, you give the great commission:
“Heal the sick, and prach the word.”
Lest the church neglect its mission
And the gospel go unheard,
Help us witness to your purpose
With renewed integrity;
With the Spirit’s gifts empower us
For the work of ministry.
Lord, you call us to you service:
“In my name baptize and teach.”
That the world may trust your promise,
Life abundant meant for each,
Give us all new fervour, draw us
Closer in community;
With the Spirit’s gifts empower us
For the work of ministry.
Lord, you make the common holy:
“This my body, this my blood.”
Let your priests, for earth’s true glory,
Daily lift life heavenward,
Asking that the world around us
Share your children’s liberty;
With the Spirit’s gifts empower us
For the work of ministry.
Lord, you show us love’s true measure:
“Father, what they do, forgive.”
Yet we hoard as private treasure
All that you so freely give.
May your care and mercy lead us
To a just society;
With the Spirit’s gifts empower us
For the work of ministry.
GOD, THE CREATOR
God the Creator, you in love made me
Who once was nothing but now have grown.
I bring the best of all my life offers;
For you I share whatever I own.
O Christ the Saviour, you in love called me
Who once was no one, lost and alone.
I pledge to go wherever you summon,
Making your will and purpose my own.
O God the Spirit, you in love move me
Who once was nowhere and felt unknown.
I know my need of you for companion:
All things can change when not on my own.
And with the people summoned together
To be the church in which faith is sown,
I make my promise to live for Jesus
And let the world know all are his own.
WILL YOU COME AND FOLLOW ME
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?
Will you leave yourself behind if I but call your name?
Will you care for cruel and kind and never be the same?
Will you risk the hostile stare
Should your life attract or scare?
Will you let me answer prayer in you and you in me?
Will you let the blinded see if I but call your name?
Will you set the prisoners free and never be the same?
Will you kiss the leper clean
and do such as this unseen,
And admit to what I mean in you and you in me.
Will you love the “you” you hide if I but call your name?
Will you quell the fear inside and never be the same?
Will you use the faith you’ve found
To reshape the world around,
Through my sight and touch and sound in you and you in me?
Lord, your summons echoes true when you but call my name.
Let me turn and follow you and never be the same.
In your company I’ll go
where your love and footsteps show.
Thus I’ll move and live and grow in you and you in me.
ALLELUIA! GLORY TO GOD
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Glory to God who does wondrous things;
Let all the people God’s praises now sing;
All of creation in splendour shall ring: Alleluia!
See how salvation for all has been won;
Up from the grave our new life has begun;
Life now perfected in Jesus, the Son: Alleluia!
Now in our presence the Lord will appear,
Shine in the faces of all of us here;
Fill us with joy and cast out all our fear: Alleluia!
Call us, good Shepherd; we listen for you,
Wanting to see you in all that we do;
We would the gate of salvation pass through: Alleluia!
Lord, we are open to all that you say,
Ready to listen and follow your way;
You are potter and we are the clay: Alleluia!
If we have love, then we dwell in the Lord;
God will protect us from fire and sword,
Fill us with love and the peace of his word: Alleluia!
