ORDER OF WORSHIP NINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST *HYMN God is Love ABBOT S LEIGH October 4, 2015 10:00 a.m. The beginning of the opening voluntary is a call to silent, personal meditation. Please silence all electronic devices as we prepare our hearts and minds to worship God. OPENING VOLUNTARY Concerto in A minor J. S. Bach (Allegro) (1685-1750) INTROIT Let all the world in every corner sing, my God and King. The heavens are not too high, his praise may thither fly: The earth is not too low, his praises there may grow. The church with psalms must shout, no door can keep them out: But above all the heart must bear the longest part. Let all the world in every corner sing, my God and King. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) CALL TO WORSHIP People: People: I will have pity on them, will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them, says the Lord. I will turn all my mountains into a road, and my highways shall be raised up, says the Lord. Lo, these shall come from far away, and lo, these from the north, and from the west. Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his suffering ones. Let us worship God! ***
PRAYER OF CONFESSION O Savior of our souls, what shall be the measure of our sins but your immeasurable mercy? Our wars blemish the earth. Our sated cities mock the hungry. Our ordered lives hide the chaos that daily threatens to undo us. We come now to your table penitent for ourselves and for the whole world, bringing our darkness for your light and our wounds for your healing. Give us the bread of heaven that nourishes us, bone and breath, for mighty acts of love; and strengthen us with the cup of salvation that runs over and over again with the abundance of your grace toward all people in Jesus Christ, our Lord. *GLORIA PATRI Glory through eternity: Spirit, Son, and blessed Father, God of gracious tenderness, at your feet we sinners gather. All your great and wondrous love we shall through the ages prove. WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS GROSSER GOTT (Hymn 460) SILENT CONFESSION KYRIE ELEISON James MacMillan (b. 1959) *** PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION O sudden and surprising God, generous in mercy, quickener of new life, giver of new love, irreverent, subversive, deep source of yearning, startling comforter, bearer of darkness, unmaker of old paths, bringer of strange joy, abundant, disturbing, healing, unlooked for, tender and piercing: open our hearts and minds to your word, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. OLD TESTAMENT LESSON Job 1:1; 2:1-10 (p. 453) PROMISE OF THE GOSPEL PSALTER Psalm 26:1, 2, 4-8, 12 Richard Farrant (1530-1580) Give judgment for me, O Lord, for I have lived with integrity; I have trusted in the Lord and have not faltered. Test me, O Lord, and try me; examine my heart and my mind. I have not sat with the worthless, nor do I consort with the deceitful. I have hated the company of evildoers; I will not sit down with the wicked. I will wash my hands in innocence, O Lord, that I may go in procession round your altar, Singing aloud a song of thanksgiving and recounting all your wonderful deeds. Lord, I love the house in which you dwell and the place where your glory abides. My foot stands on level ground; in the full assembly I will bless the Lord.
NEW TESTAMENT LESSON Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12 (p. 218) CHURCH SCHOOL ANTHEM We are climbing Jacob s ladder. Every round goes higher, higher. If you love him, why not serve him? We are climbing higher, higher. Followers of the cross. After the anthem, children through fifth grade may process to the Strouse Building to meet for the Gathering. Spiritual, arr. Joseph Cox SERMON Only a Suffering God Can Help Ms. Jarvis It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings. Hebrews 2:10 SACRAMENT OF THE LORD S SUPPER Invitation Peace The peace of Christ be with you all. People: And also with you. Words of Institution The Great Thanksgiving The Lord be with you. People: And with your spirit. Lift up your hearts. People: We lift them up unto the Lord. Let us give thanks unto our Lord God. People: It is meet and right so to do. Sanctus MacMillan *HYMN 515 Now to Your Table Spread LOVE UNKNOWN OFFERING OFFERTORY ANTHEM Morning glory, starlit sky, soaring music, scholar s truth, flight of swallows, autumn leaves, memory s treasure, grace of youth: Barry Rose (b. 1934) Open are the gifts of God, gifts of love to mind and sense; hidden is love s agony, love s endeavor, love s expense. Love that gives, gives ever more, gives with zeal, with eager hands, spares not, keeps not, all outpours, ventures all its all expends. Drained is love in making full, bound in setting others free, poor in making many rich, weak in giving power to be. Therefore he who shows us God helpless hangs upon the tree; and the nails and crown of thorns tell of what God s love must be. Here is God: no monarch he, throned in easy state to reign; here is God, whose arms of love aching, spent, the world sustain. Prayers concluding with 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen. Distribution
Music at Distribution Concerto in A minor Bach (Adagio) *BENEDICTION Anthem at Distribution Welcome Jesu, deep in my soul forever stay, joy and love my heart are filling on this glad Communion day. MacMillan CLOSING VOLUNTARY Concerto in A minor Bach (Allegro) *Congregation standing ***Seating interval Prayer *HYMN O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High DEUS TUORUM MILITUM Your offerings to the Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry Food Cupboard will be received during the singing of this hymn.
LEADING WORSHIP: Cynthia A. Jarvis, Minister; Brian Russo, Director of Youth and Senior Adults; Austin Crenshaw Shelley, Associate Minister for Christian Education; Daniel Spratlan, Director of Music; Ken Lovett, Organist/Associate Director of Music; Karen Bachman, Seminarian; Robert Lord Galloway, Seminarian; Julie Bishop, piano; and Gallery Choir. GREETERS: Elders: Mark F. Bernstein and Matthew Ward; Deacons: Deborah F. Evans and Carolyn Manwaring. USHERS: Michael Baughman, Team #2 Leader; James Burns; Jason Jones; Marcia Jones; Barbara Olson; and Barbara Rubin. FLOWER GUILD: Diane Cornely. TUESDAY COUNTERS: Barbara Rubin and Sylvia Studenmund. DEACON HOSPITALITY HOSTS: Deborah F. Evans and Carolyn Manwaring. COMMUNION SERVERS: Mark F. Bernstein, Emilie H. Carr and Kristin Lawton. Flowers in the chancel are given to the glory of God and in joyous celebration of the marriage of Emma Clare McClafferty and Kevin Patrick Trainer on October 3, 2015 by Anna and Jeffrey McClafferty. MUSIC ATTRIBUTIONS: Hymns, anthems and texts reproduced with permission CCLI. License #: 3140916. OneLicense.net #: License # 717-519, copied with permission.