A Service of Worship for the Ordination of Andrew Francis Stockstill for September 23, 2012. Click below to read more.

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WORSHIP SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
A Service of Worship for the Ordination of Andrew Francis Stockstill

THE GATHERING Baron Mullis
Leader: The Lord be with you.
People: And also with you.

THE PRELUDE Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty Joachim Neander
Ellen Stockstill, John Fawcett, and Trip Porch

* THE CALL TO WORSHIP
One: This is the day that the Lord has made.
All: Let us rejoice and be glad in it!
One: We come from North and South, East and West to worship God together.
All: We come from near and far, united in our diversity, to praise God in one voice.
One: We are the body of Christ.
All: Though many members with varied gifts, we all drink of one Spirit.
One: We gather in this place to worship and to praise, to encounter our risen Lord in the
hearing of God’s holy Word. We come to be transformed. Come, let us worship
the Living God.

* THE PROCESSIONAL HYMN 371 Lift High the Cross

THE WELCOME

THE CALL TO CONFESSION Stephen Murray

THE PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Holy God, you have called us to be your faithful disciples and participate in your
redemptive work in creation. You have prayed for us to be one, united body. We
confess that we have not followed in your way. We are broken. We are often
amongst those that stand between you and the healing you offer. We are concerned
with building up ourselves at the expense of your good creation. We hurry off to
build our own houses while your house lies in ruins, while your children go hungry
all around us. Forgive us our sinful ways. Stir our spirit, that we may become one,
united in the work of preparing a way for the world to know your mercy, love, and
justice. We confess, we have never seen anything like your abounding grace! Amen.

A MOMENT OF SILENCE (for examination of conscience and personal prayers of confession)

THE ASSURANCE OF PARDON

* THE CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE (Hymn 280)
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found, was blind, but now, I see.

* THE PEACE OF CHRIST

THE MUSICAL OFFERING Breathe on Me, Breath of God Robert Jackson

THE FIRST LESSON Haggai 1:1-15 Jill Tolbert
(page 827 in the pew Bible, OT)

THE SECOND LESSON Mark 2:1-12 Mark Douglas
(page 34 in the pew Bible, NT)

THE SERMON “We Have Never Seen Anything Like This Before!” Mark Douglas

* THE HYMN 276 Great Is Thy Faithfulness

* THE AFFIRMATION OF FAITH Samuel Mwaniki
The life, death, resurrection, and promised coming of Jesus Christ has set the pattern
for the church’s mission. His human life involves the church in the common life of all
people. His service to men and women commits the church to work for every form of
human well-being. His suffering makes the church sensitive to all human suffering so
that it sees the face of Christ in the faces of persons in every kind of need. His crucifixion
discloses to the church God’s judgment on the inhumanity that marks human relations,
and the awful consequences of the church’s own complicity in injustice. In the power of
the risen Christ and the hope of his coming, the church sees the promise of God’s renewal
of human life in society and of God’s victory over all wrong. The church follows
this pattern in the form of its life and in the method of its action. So to live and serve is to
confess Christ as Lord. from The Confession of 1967

THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER

THE PRESENTATION OF THE OFFERING Robert Hay Jr.

THE OFFERTORY Awake, Awake to Love and Work arr. Wilbur Held

* THE DOXOLOGY AND PRAYER OF DEDICATION (Hymn 592)

THE ORDINATION

THE STATEMENT OF ORDINATION Dana Hughes
PRESENTATION OF THE ORDAINED Daniel Smoak
THE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS Dana Hughes
PRAYER OF ORDINATION
THE DECLARATION OF ORDINATION
THE CHARGE TO THE PASTOR Peter Hobbie

* THE HYMN 386 O for a World (verses 1 through 5)

* THE CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

* THE MUSICAL RESPONSE Trees of the Field Stuart Dauermann

* THE POSTLUDE Voluntary on “Ein Feste Burg” arr. Wilbur Held