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Kirtland Community of Christ

Corporate Worship Service
13 September 2009

9017 Chillicothe RD
Kirtland Ohio 44094

Lose Your Life for Jesus

(Music playing)
Announcements

We Gather Together and Lift Our Voices Up In Praise

Prelude
Welcome and Call to Worship

Sing praises unto the Lord
  Who is Wonderful—
     Whose glories shine on
        The mountain faces.

Sing praises of joy
  For God, who is magnificent—
    Whose power flashes
       In the stormy seas.

Sing hymns of adoration
  For God, who is merciful—
    Whose love has cleansed
       Even me.

Sing praises with gladness
  For God, who is gentle—
    Whose hand is in
       A newborn’s touch.

Sing praises, O sing Praises!
                  For God is Love—

Theresa Anderson, “Song of Praise,” Prayers and Readings for Worship,
Peter Judd ed., p10, Herald House, Independence, 1987, revised 2002.

*Hymn of Praise and Opening  “God of Grace and God of Laughter”     SP 10 v1
*Prayer of Openness
*Response

As a Family in Christ We Remember Our Joys and Our Concerns
Prayer of Thanksgiving and of Yearning

We Encounter the Struggles of the World and Our Many Stumbles

Lighting of the Candle of Peace
Prayer for Peace and Renewal (Prayer for Peace from Daily Prayer for Peace for 13  Sept )
Hymn of Peace & Contemplation “God of Grace and God of Laughter” SP10 v2 & 3

We Open Ourselves Up to the Holy
Prayer of Encounter, Seeking and Openness     2 Readers
Hymn of Openness to Spirit Fountain of All Revelation HS 298
Time of Reflection (“Lift your Eyes” playing)

We Turn to the Living Word as We Seek to Give Our Lives for Christ and Seek the Peaceable Community We Call Zion

Reading of the Written Word    
Proclamation of the Living Word  
Reflection on the Living word – Time of Quiet Reflection

We Lose our Lives to Christ

As Generous Disciple’s We Give Generously of All That We Are
Hymn of Commitment Take My Life and Let it Be HS 408
Receiving of Local and World Mission Tithes
Hymn of Sending Forth Called By Christ to Love Each Other SP 36

Let Us Go Forth, Engage Our Calling, and Be Open to the Moving of the Spirit

Blessing and Sending Forth 

SP – Sing for Peace, HS – Hymns of the Saints  *You are invited to rise as you are able

The above is a slightly modified version of the order of worship found in the bulletin today at Kirtland Community of Christ in Kirtland Ohio.   A post will follow with the Prayer of Encounter, Seeking, and Openness, and possibly one with the sermon. (I am writing this post Tuesday night, even though it won’t be posted til Sunday morning, and the sermon is still far from a postable form. In other words, yes I am finding ways to focus on things other than the sermon and other needed things)

Peace be with you,