June 27, 2009 Gathering

NOTE: Next week The Pub Church will meet at Jaclyn, Jesse and Xochitl's place for a BBQ!

Email if you need directions :-) thepubchurch(at)gmail(dot)com

MUSICAL PRELUDE

by Andrew Prete

WELCOME

Welcome to The Pub Church! As a church in a pub, the Spirit is with us. In this space feel free to move about, order drinks/food, doodle, and express ideas openly!

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. All we bring is welcome; our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space.

OPENING READING

Meister Eckhart, Thirteenth Century

What good is it to me if Mary gave birth to Jesus 1400 years ago if I do not also give birth to him in my time and in my culture?

TELLING OUR STORY

PEACE – TOAST

In this place we creatively express;

Some of us are focused, some are a mess!

We participate during the sermon

And people do connect, we are learnin’

Greet all with a handshake, toast or a wave

At all times feel free to yell, rant or rave

Fake not friends, we can arrive as we are.

Cheers! Here’s to sacred space in a bar!

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

CONVERSATIONAL SERMON

Mark 3:13-19

Then he goes up on the mountain and summons those he wanted, and they came to him. He formed a group of twelve to be his companions, and to be sent out to speak, and to have authority to drive out demons.

And to Simon he gave the nickname Rock, and to James, the son of Zebedee, and to John, his brother, he also gave a nickname, Boanerges, which means “Thunder Brothers”; and Andrew and Philip and Bartholomew and Matthew and Thomas and James, the son of Alphaeus; and Thaddeus and Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot, who, in the end, turned him in.

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· What is Jesus up to so far?

· Preparing a revolution?

· What is up with the demon focus?

· A reading from Archbishop Oscar Romero, from Voice of the Voiceless, p. 71.

SHARING OF RESOURCES

COMMUNION

THE INVITATION

One: God is with us.

All: Yes she is.

FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

BENEDICTION

“The time is up!

God’s way is closing in. “

Go now in peace, with Spirit - to break the silences, to resist the tyrannies,

and to drink in the Spirit!

MUSICAL POSTLUDE

June 20th Gathering

MUSICAL PRELUDE

WELCOME

Welcome to The Pub Church! As a church in a pub, the Spirit is with us. In this space feel free to move about, order drinks/food, doodle, and express ideas openly!

We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. All we bring is welcome; our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space.

OPENING READING

Adapted with words from Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider, p.41

What are the words you do not yet have?

What do you need to say?

What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own,

until you will sicken and die from them,

still in silence?

Jesus said, “The time is up! God’s way is closing in. Change your ways and

put your trust in the good news!”

Today is an invitation to Say our words!

Resist the tyrannies, change our ways,

and do our work!

TELLING OUR STORY

PEACE – TOAST

In this place we creatively express;

Some of us are focused, some are a mess!

We participate during the sermon

And people do connect, we are learnin’

Greet all with a handshake, toast or a wave

At all times feel free to yell, rant or rave

Fake not friends, we can arrive as we are.

Cheers! Here’s to sacred space in a bar!

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

CONVERSATIONAL SERMON

Mark 3:7-15

Then Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a huge crowd from Galilee followed. When they heard what he was doing, a huge crowd from Judea, and from around Tyre and Sidon, collected around him. And he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him on account of the crowd, so they would not mob him. (After all, he had healed so many, that all who had diseases were pushing forward t touch him.) The unclean spirits also, wherever they faced him, would fall down before him and shout out, “You son of God, you!”

But he always warned them not to tell who he was.

Then he goes up on the mountain and summons those he wanted, and they came to him. He formed a group of twelve to be his companions, and to be sent out to speak, and to have authority to drive out demons.

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· Any initial thoughts on today’s reading.

· Danger in the crowds?

· Preparing a revolution?

· Warned them not to tell – why?

SHARING OF RESOURCES

COMMUNION

THE INVITATION

One: God is with us.

All: Yes she is.

FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

BENEDICTION

“The time is up!

God’s way is closing in.

Change your ways and

put your trust in the good news!”

Go, Say your words! Break the Silence,

Resist the tyrannies, Change your ways,

Do your work and Drink in the Spirit!

MUSICAL POSTLUDE