MUSICAL PRELUDE
by John Gerard
WELCOME
Welcome to The
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 PRAYER
(by Henry Horton, in Life Prayers From Around the World)
Our Mother, who is here with us on earth,
Sacred is thy being. Thy gardens grow.
Thy will be done in our cities
as it is in nature and in all that is yours.
Thanks be this day
for food, and air, and water.
Forgive us when we miss the mark
as we are learning to forgive one another.
And surrender us not unto extinction,
but deliver us from our folly.
For thine is the beauty, and the power,
and all life, from birth to death,
from beginning to end.
So be it, forever. Blessed be.
TELLING OUR STORY
Where do we feel most at home?
How did that become our home?
And can that be cultivated elsewhere?
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 3:20-22, 31-35
Then he goes home, and once again a crowd gathers, so they could not even grab a bite to eat. When his relatives heard about it, they came to get him. (You see, they thought he was out of his mind.) And the scholars who had come down from
Then his mother and his brothers arrive. While still outside, they send in and ask for him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they say to him, “Look, your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside looking for you.”
In response he says to them: “My mother and brothers – who ever are they?” And looking right at those seated around him in a circle, he says, “Here are my mother and my brothers. Whoever does God’s will, that’s my brother and sister and mother!”
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· What is up with Mr. Anti-Relatives?!
· How does this connect with the text right before where he calls 12 to be his companions, “to be sent out to speak and to have authority to drive out demons”?
· What is up with the demon focus - again?
· And what is God’s will anyway?
SHARING OF RESOURCES
COMMUNION
One: God is with us.
All: Yes she is.
FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
BENEDICTION
Great, living God, never fully known,
joyful darkness far beyond our seeing,
closer yet than breathing,
closer yet than home,
Go with us now as we continue in openness and uncertainty, and Drink in The Spirit!
MUSICAL POSTLUDE
