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Round Hill
Community Church
ORDER OF SERVICE
June 26, 2016
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
PRELUDE
Concerto in F Major
Andante
Handel
WORDS OF WELCOME
INTROIT
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader:
Welcome to a time of wonder
All:
and music that calls us home.
Leader:
Welcome to hear God’s words that inspire and challenge
All:
and to reminders that we are offered holy hospitality Leader:
hospitality that teaches us how to open our lives to others
All:
leading us to fully live open hearts, open minds, open doors.
*The congregation is invited to stand
*HYMN
Praise the Lord! Ye Heavens, Adore Him
*OPENING PRAYER
Hospitable God, you invite us to a banquet
where the last may be first,
and the humble and the mighty trade places.
Let us share your abundance with no fear of scarcity;
let us greet strangers as angels you have sent!
Send your Spirit now
so that we may find a place at your table
and welcome others with radical hospitality. Amen.
*THE LORD’S PRAYER
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,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
forever and ever. Amen.
*GLORIA PATRI
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning,
is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
SUMMER HYMN SING
Children may now leave for Church School.
ANTHEM
Draw Us In Thy Spirits’ Tether
SCRIPTURE LESSON
Friedell
A selection of verses from Luke 14
Verses 12 - 14: He said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give
a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your
relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you
would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled,
the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay
you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Verse 15 – 24: One of the dinner guests, on hearing this, said to him, “Blessed
is anyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!” Then Jesus said to him,
“Someone gave a great dinner and invited many. At the time for the dinner he
sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come; for everything is
ready now.’ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I
have bought a piece of land, and I must go out and see it; please accept my
regrets.’ Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try
them out; please accept my regrets.’ Another said, ‘I have just been married,
and therefore I cannot come.’ So the slave returned and reported this to his
master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his slave, ‘Go
out at once into the streets and lanes of the town and bring in the poor, the
crippled, the blind, and the lame.’ And the slave said, ‘Sir, what you ordered
has been done, and there is still room.’ Then the master said to the slave, ‘Go
out into the roads and lanes, and compel people to come in, so that my house
may be filled. For I tell you, none of those who were invited will taste my
dinner.’”
SERMON
The Kingdom of God is like… a Banquet
The Rev. Dan Haugh
OFFERING
Invitation
Anthem
Come With Rejoicing
Leaf
*Doxology Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him,
all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host:
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
*Hymn
My Country ‘Tis of Thee (verse 4)
Our fathers’ God, to thee, author of liberty, to thee we sing; long may our
land be bright with freedom’s holy light; protect us by
thy might, Great God, our King.
PASTORAL PRAYER
*Hymn No. 386
We Come As Guests Invited
CHURCH PRAYER
Our Heavenly Father, shed forth thy blessed spirit upon all our
lives. Make each one of us an instrument in thy hands for good.
Purify our hearts, strengthen our minds and bodies, fill us with
Christian love. Let no pride, no self-conceit, no rivalry, no ill-will
ever spring up among us. Make us earnest and true, wise and
prudent, giving no just cause for offense and may thy holy peace
rest upon us this day and every day throughout the coming week,
sweetening our trials, cheering us in our work, and keeping us
faithful to the end, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
BENEDICTION
CHORAL RESPONSE
POSTLUDE
Hornpipe
Handel
ROUND HILL COMMUNITY CHURCH CREED
I believe in God, the one universal Father of all mankind, revealed
supremely in Jesus Christ, our Lord, and present with us to guide,
comfort and inspire in the Holy Spirit. I believe in the Kingdom of God;
and in the mission of the Christian Church to proclaim the Gospel to all
the world, exalting the worship of the Lord our God, and laboring for
the progress of knowledge, the promotion of righteousness, the reign of
peace, and the realization of human brotherhood. United in Christian
love, we pray and labor for the coming of the Kingdom, the triumph of
righteousness and the life everlasting. Amen.
ROUND HILL COMMUNITY CHURCH MISSON STATEMENT
We, the members of the Round Hill Community Church, a selfgoverning, non-denominational body, seek to foster a community of
faith where people of all ages and backgrounds pursue spiritual growth;
where God is worshipped in Word and praised in music; where friends
are made and hurts are healed. We seek to be a community where
individuals commit their time and resources to education, fellowship,
and to helping those in need among our Church family and in the
broader world. We are a church where faith, hope, justice and love are
valued, and above all, Jesus is Lord.
CHURCH NEWS
Thank you to Jill Cassill and Ted Thaxter for ushering this morning.
Thank you to Janet Huley for serving as our lay liturgist this morning.
Thank you to Carolyn Gilbert and Jean Jacullo for hosting coffee hour this
week. Please join them in the parlor following the service.
Please keep in mind that the office is now operating on Summer Hours and
will close at noon on Fridays through Labor Day.
Outreach
Update! Neighbor to Neighbor has identified a pressing need for their food
pantry right now and we have been asked to collect donations of packable
lunch items, such as individual fruit cups, juice pouches/boxes, nonperishable milk boxes, small packs of raisins, granola bars, etc. Please leave
donations in the food wagon located in the Narthex.
Also, keep an eye out for a list of upcoming Service Saturdays at
Neighbor to Neighbor this fall! Thank you!
Mark your calendar for Beach Day 2016 which will be on Wednesday, July
27 (rain date July 28). Sign-up sheet is in the Parlor; we’ll be grilling this year
and are also looking for donations of side salads. If you have any questions,
please see the Rev. Dan Haugh or Caroline Lazzara, Outreach Committee
Chair.
Fellowship
The Meditation Group will be taking a hiatus during the warmer months and
will resume their sessions on September 1st.
For its last exhibit of the season, Les Beaux Arts Gallery is exhibiting
“Common Ground” by Richard Levine, painter of the American
landscape. The show runs through Friday, July 8.
REFLECTIONS
Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can
enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change
people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring
men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by
dividing lines.
Henri J.M. Nouwen,
Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
Christians and Jews hold in common one theological basis for hospitality:
Creation. Creation is the ultimate expression of God's hospitality to His
creatures. In the words of one rabbi, everything God created is a
"manifestation of His kindness. [The] world is one big hospitality inn." As
Church historian Amy Oden has put it, "God offers hospitality to all
humanity... by establishing a home…for all." To invite people into our homes
is to respond with gratitude to the God who made a home for us... And so the
invitation that we as Christians extend to one another is not simply an
invitation into our homes or to our tables; what we ask of other people it that
hey enter into our lives.
Lauren F. Winner, Mudhouse Sabbath
Senior Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Edward G. Horstmann
Associate Pastor: The Rev. Dan Haugh
Minister Emeritus: The Rev. Dr. Ralph Ahlberg
Minister of Music: Christopher Kabala
Round Hill Community Church
395 Round Hill Road, Greenwich, CT 06831
203.869.1091
roundhillcommunitychurch.org