Opening Prayer
Lord, our lives our short. We fill our days with the tasks that are
necessary to live, making the days and seasons fly by. Sometimes it even seems like only yesterday
when we were small children, young adults, in the middle of life raising our
own small children, or seeing them become parents themselves. In this short life, we need to find time to
pause and recognize how glorious and awesome you are. We should do this daily, and we pause today
from the busy-ness of life to see that. May this time of prayer and worship reveal
your glory to us, your children. In
Jesus Name, Amen.
Lord God of heavenly forces, mighty one of Israel:
We pray to you tonight for all who have not turned their hearts to you. While they may suffer the same trials and tribulations that all who walk this earth for a few short decades do, they do not have the hope of a future in your kingdom. Because of this, the pain of grief, illness, death, poverty, homelessness, addiction, abuse, discrimination, trauma, violence, and so many other things may feel all the more disheartening. But when we have the hope of a future in your kingdom, we recognize that this suffering is just for a short time as compared to eternity. Yet, we pray for relief of this suffering for all who go through it whether they know you or not. We pray that the people of this church could help aid those who go through these difficult times providing for those who are in need. We pray that you would lead us and guide us in this. We lift it up to you knowing full well that your Holy Spirit carries these prayers to you and that Jesus Christ has known these sufferings on our behalf. In His Holy Name, by His prayer we offer it up with a voice in unison: Our Father… Amen.
Communion
Christ our Lord invites all to his table who love him,
who earnestly repent of their
sin
and seek to live in peace with one
another.
Therefore, let us confess our sin before God and one another.
Let us pray…
Jesus Christ our Savior:
We know that we are an evil generation.
Every generation has committed sins and this one is no exception. While the sins that may be most common, or
most focused on by the church-going people, the fact that people sin in every
conceivable way has not changed, and it will not change until you have returned
and defeated Satan once and for all. We
pray for the hastening of the Day of the Lord, but until then, we pray our
repentance and begging for forgiveness for our contribution, both individually
and corporately, to the claiming by our generation of owning the title of “evil
generation.” We pray now for these sins
in the silence of our hearts.
AMEN
Hear the Good News:
Since One greater than Solomon and Jonah has risen up
Since this One has been a prophet, a king, and a priest to us
We know that this Great and Mighty One, Jesus Christ, has already completed
the act of grace that grants us righteousness in God’s eyes.
In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.
Glory to God. Amen.
We give you thanks to you, our God because
it is always a good, right, and joyful thing,
to give thanks to you,
Father Almighty, creator of heaven and
earth.
Every generation from Adam& Eve, their children Cain & Abel,
To Noah’s generation
To Abraham’s generation
To Moses’s generation
To the generations of the Judges
To the generations of the kings
To the generations of the exiles
To the generations of the post-exilic period
To the generation of Christ’s day
To the generations of the Church
And even to the generations today have been evil generations
But you have sent your Son to redeem the world
And we now celebrate the season of Advent looking forward to His return
So that he can take
all of your people on earth and in
heaven to your heavenly courts where
will sing praises to your name and join
the unending hymn:
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the
highest.
Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ,
We look forward to his return
and the founding of His city here on earth
Through his baptism of suffering, death, and resurrection
delivered from slavery to sin and
death,
through the new covenant made by water
and the Spirit
With its promise of His return
On the night
in which he gave himself up for us, he took bread,
gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said:
"Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you.
Do this in remembrance of me."
When the supper was over he took the cup,
gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said:
"Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant,
poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ,
we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving
as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us,
as we proclaim the mystery of faith.
Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.
Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here,
and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ,
that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood.
By your Spirit make us one with Christ,
one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world,
until Christ
comes in final victory, and we feast at his heavenly banquet.
Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy Church,
all honor and glory is yours, almighty Father (God), now and for ever.
Amen.
This is the
body of Christ broken for you. Take and
eat. AMEN
This is the
blood of Christ shed for you. Take and
drink. AMEN.
Benediction
all that is impure has been refined by than
hand of God
all that is impure has been given grace
through the love of Jesus
all that is impure will remain cleansed by
the leading of the Spirit
let yourself continue to be purified by
their wondrous love
amen.
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