John 7:1-24
Call: Adapted from Ps 147 & 2 Peter 1:2 (Responsive Reading)
Leader: Our help is in the name of our God, who made heaven and earth.
All: Amen.
Leader: Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving.
Make music upon the harp.
How good it is to celebrate God’s presence
and sing praise throughout each day!
All: How good it is to sing praise and give honor to our God!
Leader: Our God rebuilds the people of earth.
The wandering ones are gathered together,
the brokenhearted are healed, the hungry are fed,
the prisoners are freed, the blind are given sight,
the lonely are befriended.
All: How good it is to sing praise and give honor to our God!
Leader: All of nature sings aloud the goodness of God— clouds, rain, grass, creatures great and small. Our God creates and sustains our world
with his ever-growing, never-ending love.
All: How good it is to sing praise and give honor to our God!
Leader: Grace and peace be yours in abundance
through the knowledge of God and of Christ Jesus, our Lord.
All: Amen.
Scripture: John 1:1-5, 14, 18 (ESV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.