July 7, 2019, Rev. Katie Callaway, Preaching
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THE WORSHIP OF GOD
July 7, 2019 Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Eleven O’clock
WE PRAISE GOD
Westminster Chimes
Chiming of the Hour ........................................................................................... Markala Lawrence
†Organ Prelude - “Draw Nigh and Take the Body of the Lord” .................................Richard Warner
Rev. James Richardson
Choral Introit No. 504 - “Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether” ......................................... Harold Friedell
Draw us in the Spirit’s tether, for when humbly in your name
Two or three are met together, you are in the midst of them;
Alleluia! Alleluia! Touch we now your garment’s hem.
(The text is by Percy Dearmer.)
Welcome and Call to Worship .......................................................................... Rev. John Callaway
Invocation ..........................................................................................................Rev. Katie Callaway
†*Hymn No. 461 - “God Is Here!”...................................................................................abbot’s leigh
*Affirmation of Faith
We are not alone. We live in God’s world and we worship the One who has created
and is creating, who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh, to reconcile and
make new, who works in us and others through the Spirit.
We are relational beings, called to be with and for one another. In gathering
around the table, we are communing with our Triune God and we are communing
with one another.
We are called to be the Church: to celebrate God’s presence, to live with respect in
Creation, to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus,
crucified and risen, to remember the life, ministry, and love of the One we follow.
In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us. We are not alone. Thanks be
to God.
*Gloria Patri No. 579
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be,
World without end. Amen. Amen.
WE PROCLAIM GOD’SWORD
First Lesson - II Kings 5:1-14 ......................................................................Molly Wright, lay reader
Second Lesson - Psalm 65:1-9
Solo - “Consider the Lilies”........................................................................................Bob Burroughs
Bill Gardner, Tenor
Consider the lilies, how stately they grow!
They toil not, they spin not, no seed do they sow;
Yet they bloom all the summer, so shining and tall,
The Father who loves them takes thought of them all.
Consider the ravens: who gives them their food?
Who shelters their nest in the storm-beaten wood?
Who guides the young sparrow? Who watches its fall?
Their Father in heaven takes heed for them all.
Our Father in heaven, thy children on earth,
Than lilies or ravens, thou holdest more worth:
O guide us and guard us, be near when we call,
Uphold us, enfold us, we thank thee for all.
(The text is by Alice Williams Brotherton.)
Third Lesson - Luke 10:1-11, 16-20
Sermon - “Entering Town” ................................................................................Rev. Katie Callaway
WE RESPOND TO THEWORD
*Hymn No. 507 - “I Come with Joy” ...........................................................................dove of peace
Call to Prayer
Silent Prayers
Pastoral Prayer
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 sins, as we forgive those who sin against us; and lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom and the power and
the glory, forever and ever. Amen.
Offertory Sentence
Receiving of Tithes and Offerings
Offertory - “Let Us Break Bread Together” .................................................................... Dale Wood
*Presentation and Doxology No. 591 .......................................................................old hundredth
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Christ, all people here below;
Praise Holy Spirit evermore;
Praise Triune God, whom we adore. Amen.
*Offertory Prayer
Approach to the Table - “Bread of the World” .................................................... David H. Williams
Bread of the world, in mercy broken, wine of the soul in mercy shed,
By whom the words of life were spoken, and in whose death our sins are dead:
Look on the heart by sorrow broken, look on the tears by sinners shed;
And be thy feast to us the token that by thy grace our souls are fed.
(The text is by Bishop Benjamin Heber.)
Celebration of Holy Communion
*Invitation to Christian Discipleship
WE GO INTO THEWORLD
*Hymn No. 508 - “For the Bread Which You Have Broken” ................................................kingdom
Events in the Life of the Church
Pastoral Benediction
Choral Response No. 504 - “All Our Meals and All Our Living”.................................Harold Friedell
All our meals and all our living make as sacraments of you
That by caring, helping, giving, we may be disciples true
Alleluia! Alleluia! We will serve with faith anew.
(The text is by Percy Dearmer.)
Organ Postlude - “Lord Jesus Christ, Thou Living Bread” .....................................Johann Pachelbel
*The congregation stands with the choir.
†The ushers will seat those waiting.
The congregation is invited to greet the ministers
in the narthex or be seated for the postlude.
The sanctuary flowers are given to the glory of God
and in memory of Leonard and Lucille Hallman and Charles and Jane Davis
by their children, Charles and Lynne Davis.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SAVANNAH
Katie Callaway, Co-Pastor -- katie@fbc-sav.org
John Callaway, Co-Pastor -- john@fbc-sav.org
James Richardson, Organist Emeritus -- james@fbc-sav.org
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