Hope Presbyterian Church – White Lake, WI

www.hopewl.com

GATHERING

1.Prelude “Holy Mountain”

Call to Worship

Greeting (2 Thess. 3:18)

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. And also with you.

Announcements

John 17:18

Jesus prayed: As you have sent me into the world. so I have sent them into the world.

Call to Worship

From the comfort of our homes, with the discomfort of discipleship:
we gather in this place created by God for community.
In our gardens battling weeds, with our neighbors serving needs:
we are enveloped in that gift offered by Christ called grace.
Through the witness of the little known, through the words of a children's song:
we learn the truth passed on to us by the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.

Prayer of the Day

2. Opening Hymn 105 “Holy, Holy, Holy”

Call to Confession
Confession:

You call to us, God of mercy, but we are too busy listening to the whispers of those who would draw us away from you. Rather than follow Jesus as you hope, we are filling in the potholes on sin's streets for a more comfortable journey. You promise to keep watch over us, but we hope you will close your eyes to how we treat others.

Forgive us, Author of life. Forgive our wavering commitment and plant our feet firmly on the paths to the kingdom. Forgive our low expectations of discipleship and give us opportunities to serve your people. Forgive our faltering faith and fill us with the delight and joy we find as your children, sisters and brothers of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

Declaration of Forgiveness

The Peace

Since God has forgiven us in Christ, let us forgive one another.

The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

And also with you.

3. Gloria Patri

THE WORD

Prayer for illumination

Psalm 1 

John 17:6-19

⁶”I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. ⁷Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; ⁸for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. ⁹I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. ¹⁰All mine are yours and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them.

¹¹And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. ¹²While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. ¹⁴I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. ¹⁵I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. ¹⁶They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

¹⁷Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. ¹⁸As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. ¹⁹And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

Sermon

4. Hymn 401 “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”

Affirmation of Faith    Apostles' Creed

Prayers of the People

Offering

Scriptural Sentences: Acts 20:35b

5. Offertory

6. Doxology

Concluding prayer

Loving God, we praise you for blessing and protecting our lives through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord. We offer these gifts as signs of our gratitude and our commitment to live lives shaped by holiness and love. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.

Thanksgiving

Our Father, who art...

SENDING

7. Closing Hymn 11 “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”

Charge and Blessing

8. Song of Hope

Postlude and Blessing Circle