Worship Guide
May 28, 2023
Pentecost Sunday
Creating Disciples of Jesus who Transform the World
ENTRANCE WITH PRAISE
Greetings:
Minister: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you!
People: And also with you!
Special Music: “Come As You Are” Charles
Centering Words:
Created by one God, blessed and sustained by one Spirit, all are welcome here.
*Call to Worship:
Leader: Coming from different places,
People: we gather as one church, one community of faith.
Leader: Bringing different gifts,
People: we come to offer ourselves as we are.
Leader: Blessed by one Spirit,
People: we bring our unity of gratitude and praise.
Leader: Let us pray
ALL: Holy Spirit, blow through our gathering as you blew through that Pentecost gathering so many centuries ago. Breathe in us your new creation, that we may be renewed and revived to be your people once more. Speak through our differences and our diversity, and bind us together in unity and love. Amen.
Hymn: “As the Deer”
As the deer pants for the water,
so my soul longs after you.
You alone are my heart's desire,
and I long to worship you.
You alone are my strength, my shield;
to you alone may my spirit yield.
You alone are my heart's desire,
and I long to worship you.
As the deer pants for the water,
so my soul longs after you.
You alone are my heart's desire,
and I long to worship you.
You alone are my strength, my shield;
to you alone may my spirit yield.
You alone are my heart's desire,
and I long to worship you.
PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD
Words of Assurance
All who call upon the name of God are saved.
By calling on God and confessing our sins, the Holy Spirit re-creates us anew and saves us by Christ’s grace.
Thanks be to God! Amen.
*Gospel Reading: John 20:19-23
19 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”
Leader: This is the Word of God, for the People of God
People: Thanks be to God!
WORD AND RESPONSE
Time with Young Friends: “Jesus Loves Me”
Children’s Message: “The Holy Spirit Comes”
Hymn: “Spirit Song”
Oh let the Son of God enfold you
with his Spirit and his love.
Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.
Oh let him have the things that hold you,
and his Spirit like a dove
will descend upon your life and make you whole.
Jesus, oh Jesus
come and fill your lambs.
Jesus, oh Jesus
come and fill your lambs.
Oh come and sing the song of gladness
as your hearts are filled with joy.
Lift your hands in sweet surrender to his name.
Oh give him all your tears and sadness;
give him all your years of pain,
and you'll enter into life in Jesus' name
Jesus, oh Jesus
come and fill your lambs.
Jesus, oh Jesus
come and fill your lambs.
Sermon: “He Breathed on Them” Acts 2:1-4
1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
Hymn: “Breathe on Me, Breath of God”
Breathe on me, breath of God,
fill me with life anew,
that I may love what thou dost love,
and do what thou wouldst do.
Breathe on me, breath of God,
until my heart is pure,
until with thee I will one will,
to do and to endure.
Breathe on me, breath of God,
till I am wholly thine,
till all this earthly part of me
glows with thy fire divine.
Breathe on me, breath of God,
so shall I never die,
but live with thee the perfect life
of thine eternity
RESPONSE TO THE WORD
Psalter: Psalm 104:24-34
24 O Lord, how manifold are your works!
In wisdom you have made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
25 Yonder is the sea, great and wide,
creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great.
26 There go the ships,
and Leviathan whom you formed to play in it.
27 These all look to you,
to give them their food in due season.
28 When you give to them, they gather it;
when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.
29 When you hid your face, they are dismayed;
when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
30 when you send forth your spirit, they are created;
and you renew the face of the ground.
31 May the glory of the Lord endure for ever,
may the Lord rejoice in his works,
32 who looks on the earth and it trembles,
who touches the mountains and they smoke!
33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praises to my God while I have beings.
34 May my meditation be pleasing to the Lord in whom I rejoice.
Gloria Patri
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.
Prayers of the People: Joys and concerns:
Silent Prayer, Pastoral Prayer
SENDING FORTH
Hymn: “My Life Flows On”
My life flows on in endless song;
above earth’s lamentation
I hear the clear though far off hymn
that hails a new creation.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
while to that Rock I'm clinging.
Since love is Lord of heaven and earth,
how can I keep from singing?
Through all the tumult and the strife,
I hear that music ringing.
It finds an echo in my soul.
How can I keep from singing?
No storm can shake my inmost calm
while to that Rock I'm clinging.
Since love is Lord of heaven and earth,
how can I keep from singing?
What though my joys and comforts die?
I know my Savior liveth.
What though the darkness gather round?
Songs in the night He giveth.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
while to that Rock I'm clinging.
Since love is Lord of heaven and earth,
how can I keep from singing?
The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
a fountain ever springing!
All things are mine since I am his!
How can I keep from singing?
No storm can shake my inmost calm
while to that Rock I'm clinging.
Since love is Lord of heaven and earth,
how can I keep from singing?
Benediction
