Calls to Worship on Jesus

Calls To Worship

Jesus

Adapted from Genesis 1 and John 1

Leader: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

People: Jesus was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and without Him not one thing came into being.

Leader: What has come into being in Him was life, and the life was the light of all people.

People: And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen His glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.

Leader: From His fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. The law indeed was given through Moses; but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (John 1) Let us praise God.

Adapted from Matthew 12:18-21

Pastor: “Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased.

All: I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.

Pastor: He will not quarrel or cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets; a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;

All: and in his name the Gentiles will hope.”

Submitted by Dustin Ray

Adapted from Luke 4:18-19

Jesus says to us,

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,

Because he has anointed me

To proclaim good news to the poor.

he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners

And recovery of sight for the blind,

To set the oppressed free,

To proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

Submitted by Austin D. Hill

Adapted from Luke 4:18

Leader: As Jesus began his earthly ministry, he said, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.”

People: Through the Holy Spirit, we too have been anointed to be the hands and feet of Jesus.

Leader: May we bring good news to the poor, as ministers of Christ Jesus.

People: Come, Let us Worship the Lord!

Submitted by Stuart Strachan Jr.

Adapted from Luke 24:44-47a

Pastor: Jesus said, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

All: Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

Pastor: And Jesus said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

All: You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you.”

Submitted by Dustin Ray (ESV, adapted for liturgical use)

Responsive Prayer Adapted from John 11

Leader: Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother would not have died. Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.“

People: Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

Leader: Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.“

People: Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?“

Leader: Martha replied, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.” Now what about us? Do we believe this?

All: We believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, our Lord and our Savior?

Leader: Then let us proclaim this with our singing…

(John 11:21-27, WEB, adapted for liturgical use)

Adapted from John 12:12-15

Leader: A great crowd that has come to the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,

People: “Hosanna!”“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”

Leader: “Blessed is the king of Israel!”“Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion. See, your king is coming,seated on a donkey’s colt.”

Adapted from Romans 15:6–7

Christ, the One who was, and is, and is to come,

welcomes you to this place.

As one body, with one voice,

we honor and glorify the giver of wisdom,

counsel, knowledge, and joy.

Amen. So be it.

Kimberly Bracken Long, Feasting on the Word Worship Companion: Liturgies for Year A, Volume 1, Westminster John Knox Press.

Adapted from Philippians 2

Leader: Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who though He was in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited,

People: But emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness.

Leader: And being found in human form, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death-even death on the cross.

People: Therefore God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name,

Leader: So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth; and under the earth,

People: And every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Leader: So let us join in singing our praise.

Adapted from Philippians 3:7-8, 10

But whatever were gains to us

We now consider loss for the sake of Christ.

What is more,

We consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ our Lord, for whose sake we lose all things.

We want to know Christ,

To know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings

Submitted by Austin D. Hill

Adapted from Colossians 2:3; Revelation 5:12,

The Lord Jesus who calls us to worship him today

is the same Jesus who refused the temptation

to worship the evil one.

Rather than receive the glorious kingdoms of this world,

he endured the shame of the cross,

and today is Lord of lords and King of kings.

Now are gathered in him all the treasures

of wisdom and knowledge, glory, and power.

Adapted from Romans 5:6-82 & Corinthians 5:21

Leader: God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

People: You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Submitted by Dustin Ray