February 24, 2013
Bulletin for February 24, 2013 - 4:00 p.m. Ordination of Bart Smith
By Morningside Staff
Morningside Presbyterian Church, Atlanta
Bulletin for February 24, 2013 - 4:00 p.m. Ordination of Bart Smith. Click below to read more.
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WORSHIP FEBRUARY 24, 2013 - 4:00 p.m.
A SERVICE OF WORD & SACRAMENT
FOR THE ORDINATION OF EDWARD BARTLETT SMITH
AS A TEACHING ELDER IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA)
BY THE PRESBYTERY OF GREATER ATLANTA
PRELUDE Benedicamus Domini Christopher Uehlein
Charles Redmon, guest organist
* CALL TO WORSHIP Baron Mullis
One: There is one Body and one Spirit;
All: There is one hope in God's call to us;
One: One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism;
All: One God and Maker of all.
One: In unity and faith, let us worship God.
* PROCESSIONAL HYMN 487 When Morning Gilds the Skies
WELCOME
CALL TO CONFESSION Glenn Small
PRAYER OF CONFESSION (unison)
Merciful God, whose ways are good and true, we confess that we have not lived as
you call us to live. We have shut our eyes to the evil the world allows. We have sealed
our ears from the cries of the suffering whose pain we abide. We have clung to the
hostility we harbor against one another, hardening our hearts to the power of grace.
Forgive us, Lord. Fill our hearts with your selfless love. Change our lives by your
matchless mercy. This we ask in Jesus’ name, in the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Our prayer continues with moments of silence for personal reflection.
ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
* CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE Glory to God, Whose Goodness Shines on M
* PASSING OF THE PEACE
One: The peace of Christ be with you.
All: And also with you.
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION Peggy Pulver
NEW TESTAMENT LESSON 1 Corinthians 12:4-20
OLD TESTAMENT LESSONS Psalm 139:1-12 & Jeremiah 1:4-10 Christopher Henry
SERMON “The Pursuit of God”
* RESPONSE HYMN 248 You Are Before Me, Lord
* AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (unison) Jim McGown
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 people 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 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
PRESENTATION OF THE OFFERING
OFFERTORY Around You, O Lord Jesus Stephan Gabrielsen
* DOXOLOGY Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow Hymn 592
* PRAYER OF DEDICATION
ORDINATION
STATEMENT OF ORDINATION Dana Hughes
PRESENTATION OF THE CANDIDATE Elizabeth Smith
CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS Dana Hughes
LAYING ON OF HANDS
DECLARATION OF ORDINATION
PRESENTATION OF SYMBOLS Ricky & Suzann Smith
CHARGE TO THE PASTOR Mardee Rightmyer
THE LORD’S SUPPER Bart & Elizabeth Smith
Invitation
* Great Thanksgiving Prayer
One: The Lord be with you.
All: And also with you.
One: Lift up your hearts.
All: We lift them up to the Lord.
One: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
All: It is right to give our thanks and praise.
* Sanctus Hymn 581
…Therefore we join our voices with all the faithful of every time and place, singing:
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
Heaven and earth are fully of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest!
Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest!
* Memorial Acclamation
…Great is the mystery of faith:
Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.
* The Lord’s Prayer
…And now with the confidence of the children of God, we pray as Christ taught us:
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.
Distribution of the Feast Elders of Morningside
Communion Hymn 507 I Come With Joy
* Prayer after Communion
* SENDING HYMN 429 Lord, You Give the Great Commission (verses 1, 2, and 5)
* CHARGE & BENEDICTION Bart Smith
* MUSICAL RESPONSE I Love to Tell the Story (verse 2 & refrain)
I love to tell the story; I love to tell the story,
more wonderful it seems it did so much for me;
than all the golden fancies and that is just the reason
of all our golden dreams. I tell it now to thee.
I love to tell the story,
'twill be my theme in glory,
to tell the old, old story
of Jesus and his love.
POSTLUDE Psalm 19 Benedetto Marcello
Ordaining Commission:
Dana Hughes (moderator) Glenn Small Baron Mullis Jim McGown
Christopher Henry Peggy Pulver Mardee Rightmyer Elizabeth Smith
Bulletin for February 24, 2013 - 4:00 p.m. Ordination of Bart Smith. Click below to read more.
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WORSHIP FEBRUARY 24, 2013 - 4:00 p.m.
A SERVICE OF WORD & SACRAMENT
FOR THE ORDINATION OF EDWARD BARTLETT SMITH
AS A TEACHING ELDER IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA)
BY THE PRESBYTERY OF GREATER ATLANTA
PRELUDE Benedicamus Domini Christopher Uehlein
Charles Redmon, guest organist
* CALL TO WORSHIP Baron Mullis
One: There is one Body and one Spirit;
All: There is one hope in God's call to us;
One: One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism;
All: One God and Maker of all.
One: In unity and faith, let us worship God.
* PROCESSIONAL HYMN 487 When Morning Gilds the Skies
WELCOME
CALL TO CONFESSION Glenn Small
PRAYER OF CONFESSION (unison)
Merciful God, whose ways are good and true, we confess that we have not lived as
you call us to live. We have shut our eyes to the evil the world allows. We have sealed
our ears from the cries of the suffering whose pain we abide. We have clung to the
hostility we harbor against one another, hardening our hearts to the power of grace.
Forgive us, Lord. Fill our hearts with your selfless love. Change our lives by your
matchless mercy. This we ask in Jesus’ name, in the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Our prayer continues with moments of silence for personal reflection.
ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
* CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE Glory to God, Whose Goodness Shines on M
* PASSING OF THE PEACE
One: The peace of Christ be with you.
All: And also with you.
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION Peggy Pulver
NEW TESTAMENT LESSON 1 Corinthians 12:4-20
OLD TESTAMENT LESSONS Psalm 139:1-12 & Jeremiah 1:4-10 Christopher Henry
SERMON “The Pursuit of God”
* RESPONSE HYMN 248 You Are Before Me, Lord
* AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (unison) Jim McGown
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 people 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 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
PRESENTATION OF THE OFFERING
OFFERTORY Around You, O Lord Jesus Stephan Gabrielsen
* DOXOLOGY Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow Hymn 592
* PRAYER OF DEDICATION
ORDINATION
STATEMENT OF ORDINATION Dana Hughes
PRESENTATION OF THE CANDIDATE Elizabeth Smith
CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS Dana Hughes
LAYING ON OF HANDS
DECLARATION OF ORDINATION
PRESENTATION OF SYMBOLS Ricky & Suzann Smith
CHARGE TO THE PASTOR Mardee Rightmyer
THE LORD’S SUPPER Bart & Elizabeth Smith
Invitation
* Great Thanksgiving Prayer
One: The Lord be with you.
All: And also with you.
One: Lift up your hearts.
All: We lift them up to the Lord.
One: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
All: It is right to give our thanks and praise.
* Sanctus Hymn 581
…Therefore we join our voices with all the faithful of every time and place, singing:
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
Heaven and earth are fully of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest!
Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest!
* Memorial Acclamation
…Great is the mystery of faith:
Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.
* The Lord’s Prayer
…And now with the confidence of the children of God, we pray as Christ taught us:
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.
Distribution of the Feast Elders of Morningside
Communion Hymn 507 I Come With Joy
* Prayer after Communion
* SENDING HYMN 429 Lord, You Give the Great Commission (verses 1, 2, and 5)
* CHARGE & BENEDICTION Bart Smith
* MUSICAL RESPONSE I Love to Tell the Story (verse 2 & refrain)
I love to tell the story; I love to tell the story,
more wonderful it seems it did so much for me;
than all the golden fancies and that is just the reason
of all our golden dreams. I tell it now to thee.
I love to tell the story,
'twill be my theme in glory,
to tell the old, old story
of Jesus and his love.
POSTLUDE Psalm 19 Benedetto Marcello
Ordaining Commission:
Dana Hughes (moderator) Glenn Small Baron Mullis Jim McGown
Christopher Henry Peggy Pulver Mardee Rightmyer Elizabeth Smith
