Christ Church, Denton with St George’s Church Dane Bank Denton

Family Worship Service at Home

John 14.15-21 Jesus speaks about love and the Holy Spirit.

Sunday 17th May 2020.

The Welcome. The Lord is risen.. He is risen indeed alleluia!

Hymn

Call to Worship

We have come together as the family of God, in our Father’s presence:

All - To offer him praise and thanksgivingTo hear and receive his holy wordTo bring before him the needs of the world. To ask his forgiveness of our sins, and to seek his grace, that through his son Jesus Christ we may give ourselves to his service

Loving Lord, fill us with your life-giving, joy-giving, peace-giving presence, that we may praise you now with our lips, and all the day long with our lives, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Saying Sorry to God – Confession

Let us return to the Lord our God and say to him:

All - Father we have sinned against heaven and before you and are not worthy to be called your children.We turn to you again. Have mercy on us, bring us back to yourself as those who once were dead but now have life through Christ our Lord. Amen

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours, now and forever. Amen

Time to Praise

Let us give thanks to the God of our Lord Jesus Christ:

All - Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing.

Before the world was made, God chose us in Christ:

All - That we might be holy and blameless before him.

Let us praise God for the glory of his grace:

All - For the free gift he gave us in his dear Son. To Father, Son and Holy Spirit, give praise and dominion, honour and might for ever and ever. Amen

Time to Listen to a reading from the Bible

1 Peter 3:13-22

Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good? But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated, but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defence to anyone who demands from you an account of the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil. For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight people, were saved through water. And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.

This is the word of the Lord. All. Thanks be to God.

John 14:15-21‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you for ever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you.

‘I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.’

This is the Gospel of the Lord. All. Praise to you O Christ.

Talk/Activities

Act of Faith:

Do you believe and trust in God the Father who made the world?

All - I believe and trust in him

Do you believe and trust in his Son, Jesus Christ who redeemed mankind?

All - I believe and trust in him

Do you believe and trust in his Holy Spirit who gives life to the people of God?

All - I believe and trust in himThis is our faith, we believe and trust in one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit

Time to pray

Notices and final Hymn

Blessing

The Dismissal Go in the peace of Christ. Alleluia, alleluia. All   Thanks be to God. Alleluia, alleluia.

Please join us after the service for chat on Zoom, we thank you for joining us this morning and look

forward to being Church at home again next Sunday.

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