Murray Presbyterian Church

November 8, 2009 –10:00 am

         

Please prepare your hearts for worship

PRELUDE

                             

CONGREGATIONAL LIFE AND NURTURE

          Welcome Visitors/Announcements

          The Ritual of Friendship (Red Book)

          Prayer Request Cards

          Sharing Joys and Concerns

TOLLING OF THE CHURCH BELL

 

PREPARING OUR HEARTS FOR WORSHIP

CALL TO WORSHIP (Responsively):

LEADER: Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.

CONGREGATION: His love is everlasting.

LEADER: Come, let us praise God joyfully.

CONGREGATION: Let us come to him with thanksgiving.

LEADER: For the good world; for things great and small, beautiful and awesome; for seen and unseen splendors.

CONGREGATION: We thank and praise you, God our Father, for all your goodness to us.

 

Passing the Peace of Christ

 

PRAISE HYMN: “There Is No Other Name”

 

PRAYER OF CONFESSION (Unison): O God of mercy: you sent Jesus Christ to save the lost.  Judge us with love and lift the burden of our sins.  We have failed in love, and have turned away from your truth.  Have mercy, O God, and forgive our sin, for the sake of Jesus your Son, our Savior.  Amen

 

A TIME OF SILENT CONFESSION

          ASSURANCE OF PARDON

          GLORY TO THE FATHER

(Gloria Patri, Hymnal #579)

 

HEARING THE WORD

SPECIAL MUSIC:  WOW! Children’s Choir

 

YOUTH MESSAGE

 

SERMON:  “Proclaiming Christ to the World”

                             Mr. Wayne Naro, Missions speaker

 

RESPONDING TO THE WORD

HYMN:  #229 “ Lift High the Cross”

 

PASTORAL PRAYER

  THE OFFERING   

  Offertory

  Doxology (Hymnal #592)

  Prayer of Thanksgiving

 

HYMN: #635 “He Leadeth Me, O Blessed Thought”

 

BENEDICTION

CONGREGATIONAL BENEDICTION

(Inside hymnal covers)

POSTLUDE