Agape Meal @ 10am 20 June 2021 - Our Vision: To be a loving and growing community - St John's Egham

Agape Meal @ 10am
            20 June 2021

                 Our Vision:
      To be a loving and growing community
 released and empowered to join in God's work
of proclaiming and demonstrating the good news
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               to Egham and beyond

If you are joining us at home, please have bread and Wine/Juice
ready for our Agape Meal

Organ Music

Welcome

We Worship Him Together
Our Father everlasting
The all creating One
God Almighty
Through Your Holy Spirit
Conceiving Christ the Son
Jesus our Saviour

I believe in God our Father
I believe in Christ the Son
I believe in the Holy Spirit
Our God is three in One
I believe in the resurrection
That we will rise again
For I believe in the Name of Jesus

Our judge and our defender
Suffered and crucified
Forgiveness is in You
Descended into darkness
You rose in glorious life
Forever seated high

I believe in You
I believe You rose again
I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord
I believe in life eternal
I believe in the virgin birth
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I believe in the saints'communion
And in Your holy Church

I believe in the resurrection
When Jesus comes again
For I believe in the Name of Jesus
Ben Fielding and Matt Crocker ©2014 Hillsong Publishing

Song
Father of kindness You have poured out grace
You brought me out of darkness
You have filled me with peace
Giver of mercy You're my help in time of need
Lord I can't help but sing

Faithful You are
Faithful forever You will be
Faithful You are
All Your promises are Yes and Amen
All Your promises are Yes and Amen

Beautiful Savior You have brought me near
You pulled me from the ashes
You have broken ev'ry curse
Blessed Redeemer You have set this captive free
Lord I can't help but sing

I will rest in Your promises
My confidence is Your faithfulness

All Your promises are Yes and Amen
All Your promises are Yes and Amen
Chris McClarney, Nate Moore and Toby Brown © 2016 Thankyou Music

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Reading: Romans 8.1-17 Geoff Martin
This is the word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

Sermon: The Gospel and Freedom Esther Prior

Our Pandemic Story - Video

Intercessions: Sally Thompson
These words may be used
Lord, in your mercy
Hear our prayer.

Merciful Father
Accept these prayers
For the sake of your son,
Our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen

Followed by the Lord’s Prayer
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come, your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours
now and forever. Amen.

The Peace

For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons,
neither the present nor the future,
nor any powers, neither height nor depth,
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nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us
from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
                                                         Romans 8.38-39
The peace and love of the Lord be always with you.
And also with you.

If you are able to – send someone a quick message of peace or
determine to do so after the Service

We Remember Jesus...
The Lord is right where you are
His Spirit is with us.

Lord Jesus, your first miracle was turning water into wine
at a wedding feast:

Give us the gift of seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Lord Jesus, you took one boy’s simple lunch
and made a feast for thousands:
Give us the imagination to see that, in your hands,
what we have to offer is enough.

Lord Jesus, you ate and drank with the marginalised
and the outcast:
Give us the courage to both give to them
and receive from them.
Lord Jesus, beneath the looming shadow of the cross,
you shared a last meal with friends:
Help us to face our own mortality,
growing kinder and more able to savour life.

Lord Jesus, you ate with your disciples
to show the truth of your resurrection:
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Help us not to despise the physical things of life
because you made them blessed.

Lord Jesus, the Emmaus disciples knew you not in words,
but in your breaking of bread:
Help us to know you when we meet you,
even if you don’t do what we expect.

Lord Jesus, you cooked breakfast for your friends
before calling them again to follow you:
We remember that you call us friends
because we do what you command us.
Lord Jesus, you were broken for us like bread:
We remember you each time we eat,
each time we are full and each time we feel broken.

Lord Jesus, you were poured out for us like wine,
We remember you each time we drink,
each time we celebrate and each time we feel dry.

Lord Jesus, you promise us a place
at the banquet in heaven, with you forever.
As we eat, as we drink, as we love you and one another,
We remember all you have done and all you have promised, with
thanksgiving. Amen.

Organ Music
(I invite you to share in an Agape Meal in your homes and as you do,
take a moment to reflect on what you are remembering/what stood
out to you in particular, then either now or later you could share this
with someone else so you can encourage each other?)

In the stillness we invite the Holy Spirit to fill us anew

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Closing Prayers and Blessing

Closing Hymn:
At the name of Jesus,
Every knee shall bow,
Every tongue confess Him
King of glory now;
'Tis the Father's pleasure
We should call Him Lord,
Who from the beginning
Was the mighty Word.

Humbled for a season,
To receive a name
From the lips of sinners
Unto whom He came;
Faithfully He bore it
Spotless to the last,
Brought it back victorious,
When from death He passed.

Bore it up triumphant
With its human light,
Through all ranks of creatures
To the central height,
To the throne of Godhead,
To the Father's breast,
Filled it with the glory
Of that perfect rest.

In your hearts enthrone Him;
There let Him subdue
All that is not holy,
All that is not true;

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Crown Him as your Captain
In temptation's hour,
Let His will enfold you
In its light and power.

Brothers, this Lord Jesus
Shall return again,
With His Father's glory,
With His angel-train;
For all wreaths of empire
Meet upon His brow,
And our hearts confess Him
King of glory now.
© Words Public Domain Music 1960 Josef Weinberger Ltd

Dismissal
Go to your community (virtual or physical)
and tell them how much the Lord has done for you
and how he has had mercy on you.
By the Spirit’s power, we will.
                                                        (cf. Mark 5.19)
Organ Music

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