Morning Service Sunday 31 August 2025

Welcome and Intimations

Responsive Call to Worship

Personal Welcome

Prayers of Adoration, Confession and Supplication and The Lords 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 198 Let Us Build a House

1. 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.
   

2. 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.
   

3. 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.
   

4. 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.
   

5. 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.
   

1994, GIA Publications, Inc.

1. Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
2. Luke 14:1, 7-14

CH4 481  Jesus Is the Name We Honour

1. Jesus is the name we honour;
   Jesus is the name we praise.
   Majestic name above all other names,
   the highest Heaven and Earth proclaim
   that Jesus is our God.
   

   We will glorify, we will lift him high,
   we will give him honour and praise,
   we will glorify, we will lift him high,
   we will give him honour and praise.
   

2. Jesus is the name we worship;
   Jesus is the name we trust.
   He is the King above all other kings,
   let all creation stand and sing
   that Jesus is our God.
   

   We will glorify, we will lift him high,
   we will give him honour and praise,
   we will glorify, we will lift him high,
   we will give him honour and praise.
   

3. Jesus is the Father’s splendour;
   Jesus is the Father’s joy.
   He will return to reign in majesty,
   and every eye at last will see
   that Jesus is our God.
   

   We will glorify, we will lift him high,
   we will give him honour and praise,
   we will glorify, we will lift him high,
   we will give him honour and praise.
   

1991, Thankyou Music

Sermon – Humility in Welcome

CH4 694 Brother, Sister, Let Me Serve You

1. Brother, sister, let me serve you,
   let me be as Christ to you;
   pray that I may have the grace to
   let you be my servant too.
   

2. We are pilgrims on a journey,
   and companions on the road;
   we are here to help each other
   walk the mile and bear the load.
   

3. I will hold the Christ-light for you
   In the night-time of your fear;
   I will hold my hand out to you,
   speak the peace you long to hear.
   

4. I will weep when you are weeping;
   when you laugh I’ll laugh with you;
   I will share your joy and sorrow
   till we’ve seen this journey through.
   

5. When we sing to God in heaven
   we shall find such harmony,
   born of all we’ve known together
   of Christ’s love and agony.
   

6. Brother, sister, let me serve you,
   let me be as Christ to you;
   pray that I may have the grace to
   let you be my servant too.
   

1977 Universal Music

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 739 The Church’s One Foundation

1. The Church's one foundation
   is Jesus Christ her Lord:
   she is his new creation
   by water and the word;
   from heaven he came and sought her
   to be his holy bride;
   with his own blood he bought her,
   and for her life he died.
   

2. Called forth from every nation,
   yet one o'er all the earth,
   her charter of salvation:
   one Lord, one faith, one birth.
   One holy name she blesses,
   and shares one holy food,
   as to one hope she presses,
   with every grace endued.
   

3. In toil and tribulation,
   and tumult of her war
   she waits the consummation
   of peace for evermore,
   till with the vision glorious
   her longing eyes are blest,
   and the great Church victorious
   shall be the Church at rest.
   

4. Yet she on earth has union
   with God, the Three in one,
   and mystical communion
   with those whose rest is won.
   O happy ones and holy!
   Lord, give us grace that we,
   like them, the meek and lowly,
   on high may dwell with thee.
   

Blessing