Morning Service Sunday 23 January 2022

Welcome and Intimations

Prayer and 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 trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory
for ever and ever.
Amen.

CH4 656 I Come with Joy, a Child of God (vss. 1-3)

1. I come with joy, a child of God,
   forgiven, loved, and free,
   the life of Jesus to recall,
   in love laid down for me,
   in love laid down for me
   

2. I come with Christians far and near
   to find, as all are fed,
   the new community of love
   in Christ's communion bread,
   in Christ’s communion bread.
   

3. As Christ breaks bread and bids us share,
   each proud division ends.
   The love that made us makes us one,
   and strangers now are friends,
   and strangers now are friends.
   

© Brian Wren

1. Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10
2. I Corinthians 12:12-31a

Children’s Message

CH4 172 Sing for God’s Glory

1. Sing for God’s glory that colours the dawn of creation,
   Racing across the sky, trailing bright clouds of elation;
   Sun of delight succeeds the velvet of night,
   Warming the earth’s exultation
   

2. Sing for God’s power that shatters the chains that would bind us, Searing the darkness of fear and despair that could blind us;
   Touching our shame with love that will not lay blame,
   Reaching out gently to find us.
   

3. Sing for God’s justice disturbing each easy illusion,
   Tearing down tyrants and putting our pride to confusion;
   Lifeblood of right, resisting evil and slight,
   Offering freedom’s transfusion.
   

4. Sing for God’s saints who have travelled faith’s journey before us,
   Who in our weariness give us their hope to restore us;
   In them we see the new creation to be,
   Spirit of love made flesh for us.
   

© Kathy Galloway

Meditation

CH4 275 Come Now, O Prince of Peace

1. Come now, O Prince of peace, make us one body.
   Come, O Lord Jesus, reconcile your people.
   

2. Come now, O God of love, make us one body.
   Come, O Lord Jesus, reconcile your people.
   

3. Come now and set us free, O God, our Savior.
   Come, O Lord Jesus, reconcile all nations.
   

4. Come, Hope of unity, make us one body.
   Come, O Lord Jesus, reconcile all nations.
   

COMMUNION

1. Invitation

2. The Story

3. Hymn CH 19 Ye Gates, Lift Up Your Heads on High

   1. Ye gates lift up your heads on high;
      ye doors that last for aye,
      be lifted up, that so the King
      of glory enter may.
      But who of glory is the King?
      The mighty Lord is this;
      even that same Lord that great in might
      and strong in battle is.
      

   2. Ye gates, lift up your heads; ye doors,
      doors that do last for aye,
      be lifted up, that so the King
      of glory enter may.
      But who is he that is the King,
      the King of glory? who is this?
      The Lord of hosts, and none but he,
      the King of glory is.
      

      Alleluia! alleluia!
      alleluia! alleluia! alleluia!
      Amen, amen, amen.
      

4. Thanksgiving

5. Breaking of Bread

6. Sharing of the Elements

7. Prayer after Communion

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 656 I Come with Joy, a Child of God (vss. 4-5)

1. The spirit of the risen Christ,
   unseen, but ever near,
   is in such friendship better known:
   alive and among us here,
   alive and among us here.
   

2. Together met, together bound,
   by all that God has done,
   we'll go with joy, to give the world,
   the love that makes us one,
   the love that makes us one.
   

© Brian Wren

Blessing