Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Second Sunday of Easter
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Angela Caporale, violin
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Our hearts are glad, and our souls rejoice; our bodies dwell secure.
People: You show us the path of life in your presence there is fullness of joy, in your right hand are pleasures evermore.
Leader: Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!
People: Alleluia! Praise the Lord!
--Blair Gilmore Meeks
OPENING HYMN* No. 408 The Gift of Love ALL
OPENING PRAYER
We pray, as a company of those who love you, that we may be given whatever it takes to run with patience the race that is set before us. Make us the kind of Christians that invite rather than hinder faith:
disciplined and informed;
generous and compassionate;
venturesome and joyful.
After the manner of our Savior, keep us at the side of those who need us. Thicken the ties that unite us with all who love you, by whatever name or sign.
Use us where and as you will.
until the fever of life is over,
and our work is done,
and we rest in you.
All of this we pray in faith and with thanksgiving, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
--Ernest T. Campbell
CALL TO CONFESSION
Let us confess our sins to God.
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE “A Radical Vision” Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: Lord of the Dance
Words: Sydney Carter; Music: Trad. Shaker Hymn, arr. John Ferguson
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
I danced in the morning when the world was begun,
And I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun,
And I came down from heaven and I danced on the earth;
At Bethlehem I had my birth.
Dance then wherever you may be;
I am the Lord of the dance, said he,
And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be.
And I’ll lead you all in the dance said he.
I danced for the scribe and the Pharisee,
But they wouldn’t dance, and they wouldn’t follow me;
I danced for the fishermen, for James and John;
They came with me and the dance went on.
I danced on a Friday when the sky turned black,
It’s hard to dance with the devil on your back,
They buried my body and they thought I’d gone.
But! I am the dance and I still go on.
They cut me down and I lept up high:
I am the life that’ll never, never die;
I’ll live in you if you’ll live in me.
I am the Lord of the dance said he.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY (can be found printed on the back page of The Faith We Sing)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Lana Cartlidge Potts
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 451 Be Thou My Vision ALL
BENEDICTION/POSTLUDE: Angela Caporale, violin
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