Welcome and Call to Worship
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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.
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There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy
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There’s a wideness in God’s mercy,
like the wideness of the sea.
There’s a kindness in God’s justice,
which is more than liberty.
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There is welcome for the sinner,
and more graces for the good.
There is mercy with the Savior,
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But we make God’s love too narrow
by false limits of our own,
and we magnify its strictness
with a zeal God will not own.
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For the love of God is broader
than the measures of the mind,
and the heart of the Eternal
is most wonderfully kind.
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If our love were but more simple,
we should rest upon God’s word,
and our lives would be illumined
by the presence of our Lord.
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- I Corinthians 8:1-13
Meditation
Special Music
Offering
Prayer of Intercession
Intimations
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Let Us Build a House
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Let us build a house where love can dwell
and all can safely live,
a place where saints and children tell
how hearts learn to forgive;
built of hopes and dreams and visions,
rock of faith and vault of grace;
here the love of Christ shall end divisions:
All are welcome,
all are welcome,
all are welcome in this place.
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Let us build a house where prophets speak,
and words are strong and true,
where all God's children dare to seek
to dream God's reign anew.
Here the cross shall stand as witness and as symbol of God's grace;
here as one we claim the faith of Jesus:All are welcome,
all are welcome,
all are welcome in this place.
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Let us build a house where love is found in water, wine and wheat:
a banquet hall on holy ground,
where peace and justice meet.
Here the love of God, through Jesus,
is revealed in time and space,
as we share in Christ the feast that frees us:All are welcome,
all are welcome,
all are welcome in this place.
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Let us build a house where hands will reach
beyond the wood and stone
to heal and strengthen, serve and teach,
and live the Word they've known.
Here the outcast and the stranger bear the image of God's face;
let us bring an end to fear and danger:All are welcome,
all are welcome,
all are welcome in this place.
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Let us build a house where all are named,
their songs and visions heard
and loved and treasured, taught and claimed as words within the Word.
Built of tears and cries and laughter,
prayers of faith and songs of grace,
let this house proclaim from floor to rafter:All are welcome,
all are welcome,
all are welcome in this place.
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Blessing