THE WORSHIP OF GOD October 9, 2016 v 10:45 a.m. Traditions v Sanctuary

THE WORSHIP OF GOD October 9, 2016 v 10:45 a.m. Traditions v Sanctuary

THE WORSHIP OF GOD October 9, 2016 v 10:45 a.m. Sanctuary PRELUDE Let Us Ever Walk with Jesus Paul Manz Kraig Windschitl, Organ El Shaddai (God Almighty) Joyful Noise Handbell Choir Michael Card, John Thompson arr. Susan E. Geschke CHIMING OF THE HOUR INTROIT Flourish Doug Wagner Joyful Noise Handbell Choir PRAYER OF INVOCATION Hilary Flynn +PROCESSIONAL HYMN All Creatures of our God and King Blue #64 All creatures of our God and King, Lift up your voice with us and sing: Alleluia! Alleluia! Thou burning sun with golden beam, Thou silver moon with softer gleam, Thou rushing wind that art so strong, Ye clouds that sail in heaven along, O praise him! Alleluia! Thou rising morn, in praise rejoice, Ye lights of evening find a voice. Thou flowing water pour and clear, Make music for your Lord to hear, Alleluia! Alleluia! Thou fire so masterful and bright, That gives to us both warmth and light, Let all things their creator bless, And worship God in humbleness, O praise him, Alleluia! Praise, praise the Father, praise the Son, Praise, Praise the Spirit, three in one. + RESPONSIVE PRAYER & LORD S PRAYER Jodie Nyberg Leader: Gracious God, we are all members of Your family of love, living into the families we were given. Let us bring our lives, our relationships and our whole selves to prayer. Leader: Quiet our anger a little, gentle our desperation, soften our fears, and diffuse our disappointment. Leader: Amplify in us the impulse to love, the power to share and the courage to care. Leader: Wipe away the tears from our eyes and ease our bodies and our souls. Reconcile us to ourselves, and then to our families, and the people around us.

Leader: Reshape us in Your wholeness, that we will be inspired to hope with endurance, to love with persistence, and to heal the wounds of strife and indifference where they threaten to divide and destroy us. All: Come, touch us with Your love, that we may touch others with our caring. Leader: Let us join now, as the body of Christ, in the prayer Jesus taught us to pray together, saying: All: 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. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen. + GLORIA PATRI Glory be to the Father 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. + PASSING OF THE PEACE John Ross MOMENT FOR MINISTRY--STEPPING STONES CALL TO OUR CHILDREN COMMUNITY MOMENTS Paul Hyde Jodie Nyberg John Ross HYMN OF DEVOTION Spirit of the Living God Red #281 Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me; Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me; Melt me, mold me, fill me, use me. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me; 1935 Birdsong Music, admin EMI Christian Music Publishing. All rights reserved. Used with permission CCLI 50567 OFFERTORY Witness (Who ll Be a Witness?) Spiritual Chancel Choir arr. Damon Dandridge soloists - Katrina Middeldorp & Mary Ohm,Sopranos; Jacob Watson, Tenor + DOXOLOGY Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise God all creatures here below; Praise God above, ye heavenly host; Creator, Christ and Holy Ghost. Amen. + DEDICATION OF GIFTS Lindy Purdy Leader: Let us give thanks. All: O God of all generosity, help us to realize the blessing we have been given, in being able to give. Accept our lives as well as our gifts. Let the spirit in which we give them be Your spirit. Let the use that is made of them be your use. Amen.

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE Hilary Flynn SCRIPTURE Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 (NRSV) Mark Reed Leader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church. Word, Inc. All: Thanks be to God! ANTHEM Gloria (Mass in g minor) Ralph Vaughan Williams Chancel Choir Ensemble Sung in Latin. Translation: Glory to God in the highest. And on earth peace to all those of good will. We praise you. We bless you. We worship you. We glorify you. We give thanks to you according to your great glory. Lord God, Heavenly King, God the Father almighty. Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son. Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father. You who take away the sin of the world, have mercy on us. You who take away the sin of the world, receive our prayer. You who sit at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For you alone are holy. You alone are the Lord. You alone are the most high, Jesus Christ. With the Holy Spirit in the glory of God the Father. Amen. SERMON Family Portrait -- Unique Families John Ross + CLOSING HYMN God Made from One Flesh all the Families of Earth Thomas Troeger (sung to Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise) (Choir) God made from one flesh all the families of earth, the circles of nurture that raise us from birth, Companions who join us to work through each stage, Of childhood and youth and adulthood and age. We turn to you, God with our thanks and our tears, For all of the families we ve known through the years, The intimate networks on whom we depend Of parents and partners and children and friends. We learn through our families how closeness and trust Increase when our actions are loving and just. Yet families have also distorted their roles, Mistreating their members and bruising their souls. (Choir) Now give to each family in conflict and storm A sense of your wisdom and grace that transform Sharp anger to insight which strengthens the heart And makes clear the place where rebuilding can start. (continued)

Then widen that wisdom and grace to include The races and viewpoints our families exclude Till peace in each home bears and nurtures the bud Of peace shared by all you have made from one blood. Text 1994 Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Used with permission CCLI 50578 + BENEDICTION John Ross Leader: For what does the Lord require of us? All: To do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with our God. (Micah 6:8) POSTLUDE Toccata on All Creatures of Our God and King Diane Bish Kraig Windschitl, Organ The End of Worship, the Beginning of Service v + Please rise in body or in spirit We are Called to Care for one another. Following the Benediction, a member of our Clergy Team will remain at the front of the Sanctuary to receive your joys and concerns. v WORSHIP LEADERS Preacher Rev. Dr. John F. Ross Liturgist Rev. S. Lindy Purdy Seminary Intern Hilary Flynn Music Thomas Paulson, Kraig Windshitl, Chancel Choir Ensemble - Paige Armstrong, Sarah Zuber, Mackenzie Lyon, Mary Ohm, John DePaolis, Jacob Watson, Alex Gerleman, Katerina Middeldorp, Carolyn Susor, Christopher Paulson, Zach Lyon, Douglas Muller Deacon Dawn Price Chancel Guild Sandy Werts Ushers Jake Beard & Peggy Douglas Ushers The Jeff Colyer Team

MUSIC TODAY (Thomas Paulson) We sometimes talk about the influence of popular culture on music in the church as if it were a relatively recent event. We harken back to the good old days when we only had one hymnal, and everybody knew the familiar hymns. But that is a myth as much as the 1950s were a time of idyllic family values. Popular music has influenced music in worship for at least 700 hundred years! In fact one of the skills that made Johann Sebastian Bach successful in his most important church position was his ability to negotiate a path between the Orthodoxy and Pietism, which was the 18th century version of the worship wars we have been experiencing in the last 30 years or so. Who ll be a Witness, sung by Chancel Choir, is a perfect example of the influence of popular music on the church. Witness is a spiritual. Spirituals were born out of the oppression of slavery, an aural musical tradition, and were sung in black churches since Africans were first brought over to the US in slave ships. The slave church used spirituals to teach Bible stories and the great truths of Jesus. But spirituals were considered much too pedestrian for many mainline white churches until the 1950s and 1960s. They began to show up in worship in white churches then as a result of the civil rights protests taking place throughout the country. Finally white church members began to understand the power of the spiritual and embrace it as great music of Christian faith. We also have been embracing spiritual offshoots: gospel, rock and roll, and contemporary Christian. Sometimes for good, sometimes for bad, popular culture influence on church music has been going on for hundreds of year, and is part of our faithful Christian struggle to be in the world, but not of the world.