Welcome To Providence Presbyterian Church

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Welcome ToProvidence Presbyterian Church

• September 1, 2013

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Welcome Announcements
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Hymn

• Gather Us In
• SF 2236

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Prayer of Confession

• Merciful God, forgive us for we exalt ourselves
  and mock the humble. We choose to believe we are
  self-sufficient rather than trust in your
  strength.
• Open us to your spirit, that we might serve all
  people without regard to the outcome, devoting
  ourselves

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• to your honor alone. We pray in Jesuss name,
  Amen.

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Song of Confession

• Bind Us Together
• SF 2226

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Anthem

• Come Into My Heart, Lord Jesus
• Priscilla Agyemang, Soloist

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Joys and Concerns of the Church
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Old Testament Lesson
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Psalm 81 1, 10-16

• Sing aloud to God our strength shout for joy to
  the God of Jacob. I am the Lord your God, who
  brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open
  your mouth wide and I will fill it. But my
  people did not listen to my voice Israel would
  not submit to me.

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• So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to
  follow their own counsels. O that my people
  would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my
  ways! Then I would quickly subdue their enemies,
  and turn my hand against their foes. Those who
  hate the Lord would cringe before him, and their
  doom

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• would last forever. I would feed you with the
  finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock
  I would satisfy you.

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New Testament Lesson
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Luke 14 1, 7-14

• On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house
  of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the
  sabbath, they were watching him closely. When he
  noticed how the guests chose the places of honor,
  he told them a parable. When you are invited by

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• someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at
  the place of honor, in case someone more
  distinguished than you has been invited by your
  host and the host who invited both of you may
  come and say to you, Give this person your
  place, and then in disgrace you would start to
  take the lowest

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• place. But when you are invited go and sit down
  at the lowest place, so that when your host
  comes, he may say to you, Friend, move up
  higher then you will be honored in the presence
  of all who sit at the table with you. For all
  who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those
  who humble themselves will

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• be exalted. He said also to the one who had
  invited him, When you give a luncheon or a
  dinner, do not invite your friends or your
  brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in
  case they may invite you in return, you would be
  repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the
  poor, the crippled, the lame,

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• and the blind. And you will be blessed, because
  they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at
  the resurrection of the righteous.

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• Leader This is the word of the Lord.
• People Thanks be to God!

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Hymn

• As We Gather at Your Table
• SF 2268

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Affirmation of Faith

• In life and death we belong to God. Through the
  grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God,
  and the communion of the Holy Spirit, we trust in
  the one triune God, the Holy One of Israel, whom
  alone we worship and serve. We trust in Jesus
  Christ,

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• fully human, fully God. Jesus proclaimed the
  reign of God preaching good news to the poor and
  release to the captives, teaching by word and
  deed and blessing the children, healing the sick
  and binding up the brokenhearted, eating with
  outcasts, forgiving sinners, and calling all to
  repent and believe the gospel.

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The Giving of our Tithes and Offerings
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The Offertory

• Offertory
• Alice Cooper, Flute

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Doxology

• Praise God, from whom all blessings flow
• Praise God, all creatures here below
• Praise God, above, ye heavenly host
• Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
• Amen.

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Great Thanksgiving

• May God be with you. And also with you
• Lift up your hearts. We lift them up to God
• Let us give thanks to God.
• It is right to give our thanks and praise.

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Communion Song

• For Every Born

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• For every born, a place at the table,
• For everyone born, clean water and bread,
• A shelter, a space, a safe place for growing,
• For everyone born, a star over head.

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• And God will delight when we are creators of
• justice and joy, compassion and peace
• Yes, God will delight when we are creators of
  justice, justice and joy!

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• For women and man, a place at the table,
• Revising the roles, deciding the share,
• With wisdom and grace dividing the power,
• For women and man, a system thats fair.

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• And God will delight when we are creators of
• justice and joy, compassion and peace
• Yes, God will delight when we are creators of
  justice, justice and joy!

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• For young and for old, a place at the table,
• A voice to be heard, a part in the song,
• The hands of a child in hands that are wrinkled,
• For young and for old, the right to belong.

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• And God will delight when we are creators of
• justice and joy, compassion and peace
• Yes, God will delight when we are creators of
  justice, justice and joy!

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• For just and un-just, a place at the table,
• A buser, a bused, with need to forgive,
• In anger, in hurt, a mindset of mercy,
• For just and un-just, a new way to live.

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• And God will delight when we are creators of
• justice and joy, compassion and peace
• Yes, God will delight when we are creators of
  justice, justice and joy!

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• For everyone born, a place at the table,
• To live without fear, and simply to be,
• To work, to speak out, to witness and worship,
• For everyone born, the right to be free.

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• And God will delight when we are creators of
• justice and joy, compassion and peace
• Yes, God will delight when we are creators of
  justice, justice and joy!

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Prayer of Thanksgiving

• For these gifts of your table, O God. For the
  opportunity to learn and to grow in your Spirit
  to
• be enlivened by faith our whole lives long, to be
  nurtured by communion with you and one another,
  we praise your holy name. Send us forth in your

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• spirit to love and serve and learn your ways and
  to bring them to a world in need of hope and joy.
  In Christ we pray. Amen.

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Hymn

• We Are Called
• SF 2172

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