Order of service 30th July 2023 “Choose love”
Hymn Holy is our God
Welcome – Keith
Choose your team – Keith
Call to worship John 15: 1 – 9
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
Opening prayer – Jonathan
Hymn My God is all I need/My God is so big
Sermon in the sack – Lucas
Hymn Graves into gardens chosen by Paige
What would you choose? – Two doors
Lord’s prayer – Alison
Hymn Here is love as vast as an ocean
Reading John 15: 9 – 19
““As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.” – Gillian
Thought “Choose love”
Hymn He calls me friend
Blessing
“‘“May the Lord bless you
and keep you;
may the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
may the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”’
Grace – Steve
Notices
Sunday morning worship 6th August 2023 @ 11:00 in St Johns in York Rooms
Prayer meeting, 10th August on Zoom @ 10:00
Prayer walk 11th August @ 10:00, meeting outside the old church building