8.2.2020

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OPENING SONG | The Part Where You Let Go

PRAYER OF THE DAY
God of the child.
God of the children.
God of the child-like.
You too, were a child getting lost from your parents, curious about the world, and hopeful about the ability for it to change,
for us to change.
Meet us here today;
Break open our hearts of stone to reveal the child-like joy instilled within us, your image bearers.  May your Holy Spirit comfort us, empower us, challenge us, and equip us to step away from the peanut gallery, stand up from our couches of apathy, and show up with our loaves and fish, ready to participate in your kingdom here on earth. Amen.

WORDS OF FORGIVENESS
God, we mess up. Over and over again, we hurt. We cause others to hurt. We ignore your presence in the stranger. We fail to love as we are loved. Forgive us, God. Meet us in our imperfection. 
::Take a deep breath::
God’s grace is one we do not deserve, but one that frees us to live as disciples of love, passing on that grace to others. In the name of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we are forgiven. Let us go and forgive others. Amen.

SONGS OF THE DAY
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
Gloria Patri

HOLY INTERRUPTION

SCRIPTURE READING | John 6:1-13
After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near. When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?” He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, “Six months’ wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.” One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so many people?” Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” Now there was a great deal of grass in the place; so they sat down, about five thousand in all. Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted. When they were satisfied, he told his disciples, “Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost.” So they gathered them up, and from the fragments of the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten, they filled twelve baskets. 

The word of God for the people of God.
Thanks be to God.

SERMON + RESPONSE | You Say

PRAYERS FOR ALL PEOPLE + THE 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

AFFIRMATION OF FAITH | The Apostle’s Creed      
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.

A BLESSING AS YOU GO