Centering Practice
Deep breath of gratitude
- Hold hands with your neighbors
- Pray for person on your left, then on your right
- Pray for our church family, this school, our region
Call to Worship/Creed
In life and in death we belong to God.
Through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the love of God,
and the communion of the Holy Spirit,
we trust in the one triune God,
the Holy One of Israel,
whom alone we worship and serve.
With believers in every time and place,
we rejoice that nothing in life or in death
can separate us from the love of God
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Worship Songs
The Love of the Father
Lift up your voices and lift up your praise
Join with the heavens
declaring the wonders
Of His faithfulness forever
Sing of the victory, the hope of the world
The Savior has risen
The Spirit has come to
Bring us into love forever
We are the people of God
With the freedom of hope in our hearts
How great is the love of the Father
Lifted from darkness and into the light
The sons and the daughters are loved at a price
Our God has made us His forever
This is the song of the redeemed
The ransomed and the free
Given life at such a price
This is love, this is love
And when the Father calls us home
And we see Him on the throne
Hear the voices sing as one
This is love, this is love
Meet Us
Hear us, Lord
When we call to You
Meet us in this place
We’ve gathered here
because we love You
Meet us in this place
Oh… how we long to be with You
You… are our joy and our crown
And we… take delight in Your presence
Oh, how we love You
Oh, how we love… You
Blessing of the Backpacks
Sending our students, teachers, and leaders back to school with love & prayer
Offering
Announcements
- Thanks for worshiping with us today! We hope you experience meaningful connection with God and others in our community. If you’re visiting for the first time today, we invite you to use our QR code to fill out a visitors card so we can get to know you better
- Women’s Bible Study: This fall, Pastor Jeya will lead a special Bible study over Zoom. Please talk to PJ if you’re interested
- Church Without Walls: Coming up next Sunday, September 3rd
- “AMA” with your pastors: Sunday, September 10th
Passing of the Peace
Family Song
Light of the World
Blessing of the Children
Go in peace and go in joy;
Filled with wonder for this day.
Go in faith and go in love;
God will guide you on your way!
Scripture Reading
1 Corinthians 12:12-27
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Together: Thanks be to God.
Spiritual Practice: Deeper Conversations
Essentials: Covenants
- Where’s your favorite place in San Diego (and why)?
- What do you do to feel connected to God?
- How do you best connect with others? How do you form connections with people who are really different from you?
- How do you help others feel beloved?
- What causes you to lose hope?
- What fills you with hope?
Worship Song
Simplicity
I come in simplicity
Longing for purity
To worship You
In spirit and truth
Only You
Lord strip it all away
‘Til only You remain
I’m coming back
To my first love
Only You
You’re the reason I sing
The reason I sing
Yes my heart will sing
How I love You
And forever I’ll sing
Forever I’ll sing
Yes my heart will sing
How I love You
I come with my broken song
To You the Perfect One
To worship You
In spirit and truth
Only You
Only You
Give me a childlike heart
Lead me to where You are
Cause I’m coming back
To my first love
Only You
How I love You
How I love You
How I love You
My first love
I love You, Lord
And I lift my voice
To worship You, oh my soul rejoice
Take joy, my King
in what You hear
May it be a sweet, sweet sound
in Your ear
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