Worship I 4/19/20

Even though we aren’t gathering in person today, we invite you to join your SSUMC community by reading through this worship guide. Together, we’ll say the same prayers, read the same scripture, and reflect on where God is calling us in this Easter season. We worship a God who always brings life out of death. May we pray and worship without ceasing. This is the day the Lord has made: Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

The Worship of God
Sandy Springs UMC
April 19, 2020 | 2nd Sunday of Easter

Following his resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples. Thomas didn’t believe until he saw, heard, and touched Jesus. Our own faith-lives are filled with questions, learning, and needed relationships. How can our faith flourish alongside Thomas’s, especially when we have questions and doubts?

Call to Worship

Sing a new song!
A springtime shout-out to new life!
Sing praise to our joyful Easter God
Whose power brings new life out of death!
Immerse  doubt and despair in the fountain of new birth
Our visions and hopes are refreshed, made new!
For God has taken ordinary things
And made them extraordinary. Sing a New Song!

Opening Song

Children's Moment

Continue sharing the peace of Christ with others from a responsible distance with this long-distance hug craft.

Pastoral Prayer & Lord’s Prayer

And now let us pray together the prayer that Jesus taught us, saying: 

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, Amen.

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Scripture: John 20:19-31

When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.’ When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’

But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, ‘We have seen the Lord.’ But he said to them, ‘Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.’

A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ Then he said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.’ Thomas answered him, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.’

Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.

This is the Word of God, for us, the people of God: Thanks be to God! 

Reflection

Apostle’s Creed

Offering

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Offertory Song

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Benediction

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