Twelfth Week after Pentecost

8.11.2018

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Subtitle

toward JustChurch's intentionally slim operational costs

Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project

directly toward doing good

Celebrate JustChurch's Benevolence!

Overview of Worship

Welcome

Song

Prayer

Offering

Eucharist

Prayer for Illumination

Readings

Sermon

Song

Creed

Prayers

Peace

Blessing

Song

Dismissal

Meditation Bowl

Three times throughout the service, when the bowl rings, you are invited to find expansiveness

through silence.

Let Us Go Now to the Banquet

Prayer

Kyrie

First Kings

Word of God; Word of life

Thanks be to God.

Psalm 34

I will bless the Lord at all times; the praise of God shall ever be in my mouth.

I will glory in the Lord;

let the lowly hear and rejoice.
Proclaim with me the greatness of the Lord; let us exalt God’s name together.
I sought the Lord, who answered me
and delivered me from all my terrors.
Look upon the Lord and be radiant, and let not your faces be ashamed.
I called in my affliction, and the Lord heard me
and saved me from all my troubles.
The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear the Lord and delivers them.
Taste and see that the Lord is good;
happy are they who take refuge in God!

John 6

First Kings

Psalm 34

John

Were there words or phrases that touched you?

Word of God; Word of Life.

Thanks be to God.

We Complete the Sermon Together

1. Have there been times in your life when you have felt like Elijah under the broom tree?

2. What/who gave you strength for your journey?

Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927, ca. 1927, oil and pencil on canvas.

Woman Reading by Juan Gris

I Am the Bread of Life

Prayers of Intercession

For the Church throughout the World
- Lord in your mercy, Hear our prayer.
For all of God's creation
- Lord in your mercy, Hear our prayer.
For the nations/world
- Lord in your mercy, Hear our prayer.
For those in need
- Lord in your mercy, Hear our prayer.
For this community
- Lord in your mercy, Hear our prayer.

Amen

The Peace of Christ be with you always. And also with you.

operates the

institutionally-light JustChurch

This week:

Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project

directly toward doing good

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

Lift up your hearts.

We lift them to the Lord.

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial
and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours,
now and forever. Amen.

Lord's

Prayer

These are the gifts of God for you--the people of God.

Come, the banquet is ready.

Prayer

Go, My Children, With My Blessing

Go in peace

to know Jesus and

to do Justice.

Acknowledgements

Reprinted with permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #23534 and OneLicense.net License #A-703442.
Eucharistic Welcome, Liturgical texts; St. John's Lutheran Church; Atlanta, GA
Eucharistic Prayer, Liturgical texts; St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church; San Francisco, CA
Used with permission: http://www.bread.org/sites/default/files/downloads/bfw15_hc_guide_web.pdf
Eucharistic prayer adapted with permission from: Communion Liturgy for International Association of Women Ministers, Matanzas Seminary, Cuba https://www.globalministries.org/communion_liturgy_for_international_association_of_women_ministers_matanzas_seminary_cuba

Worship leads to the world.

Meet a new friend.
Greet someone who differs from you.
Deepen a connection.
Help finish the wine and bread.
Enter the world, belly and spirit nourished, to boldly do justice in the name of Jesus.

Every Saturday @5 @MERGE: Worship
In August: Group discernment regarding JustActions
Starting in the fall (check out the "gathering" webpage of JustChurch.com):
- Pints of Grace
- Breathing Space
- Ancient Spiritual Practices
- Justice Seminar