Mill Plain UMC
Sunday February 5, 2023
Fasting by Precept and Example
Scripture
Isaiah 58:1-7
Songs
Come Now is the time to worship
Hosanna
Here I am to Worship
We fall down
How great is our God
Desert song
Pass it on
Mill Plain UMC
February 5, 2023
9:30 a.m.
Prelude Come now is the time to worship
Greeting
Focus On Finance
Call to Worship
Worship Assistant: Shout out! Do not hold back!
People: Lift up your voice like a trumpet.
Worship Assistant: What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived
People: God has prepared for those who love God.
Worship Assistant: Shout out! Do not hold back!
Opening Prayer
Our God, we try to do the right things: we come here to worship, in person or on line; we say our prayers and pay our pledges; we read our Bibles and feed on your Word. Yet it seems that too often our hearts are empty and our spirits are dull. The world is filled with violence and destruction. We wonder where you are and what is the use of going through these rituals?
Inspire our worship so that it transforms not only us but our world. Come to us in our prayers and our rituals and in our outreach to the community. Receive our acts of piety that they may lead us to acts of mercy which move us again to acts of mercy.
In your Righteous Name we pray. Amen.
Praise song Hosanna praise is rising
Praise song Here I am to worship
Young Disciples
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Offertory We fall down
Presentation of Offerings
Doxology How great is our God
Scripture
Isaiah 58:1-7
Shout out, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God.
“Why do we fast, but you do not see? Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?” Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day, and oppress all your workers. Look, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to strike with a wicked fist. Such fasting as you do today will not make your voice heard on high. Is such the fast that I choose, a day to humble oneself? Is it to bow down the head like a bulrush, and to lie in sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin?
Sermon: Fasting by Precept and Example
Communion
Great Thanksgiving
Call & Response
The Lord be with you.
AND ALSO WITH YOU.
Lift up your hearts.
WE LIFT THEM UP TO THE LORD.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
IT IS RIGHT TO GIVE OUR THANKS AND PRAISE.
Pastor Sue prays ………….
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY LORD, GOD OF POWER AND MIGHT, HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE FULL OF Y OUR GLORY.
HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST.
BLESSED IS THE ONE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST.
The Lord’s Prayer
Breaking of the bread
Giving of the bread and cup
Prayer after Communion
Gracious God, you come to us in bread and cup. Grant that we may carry your love into the world. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
Praise song Desert Song
Benediction: God guide you continually and satisfy your needs in parched places.
You shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water whose waters never fail.
Go in peace. Amen.
Praise song Pass it On
Postlude
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