Sunday | September 19, 2021 9:00 am (In-Person) and 10:30 am (In-Person & LiveStream)
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Sunday | September 19, 2021
9:00 am (In-Person) and 10:30 am (In-Person & LiveStream)
500 McKennans Church Wilmington, DE pc pc
Page 1COVID Friendly Reminders As We Resume In-Person Worship
We’re excited that the pandemic is ebbing and the country is re-opening as more and more people
are being vaccinated; but, in concern for the safety and comfort level of all who come into the church,
we are still maintaining basic COVID safety guidelines.
•Worshipers must REMAIN AT LEAST 3 FEET FROM THOSE WHO DO NOT LIVE IN
THEIR OWN HOUSEHOLD, regardless of vaccination status.
•AT OUR 9:00 AM “COVID SENSITIVE WORSHIP SERVICE”:
•AT OUR 10:30 AM “HYBRID WORSHIP SERVICE”:
•Balcony seating will be closed except to the media production team.
•At the conclusion of services, please leave the sanctuary promptly. Fellowship is
encouraged outside the building near the doors of Founders Hall.
•Do not attend if you or a member of your family have COVID symptoms or if you
have been in contact with someone with symptoms. And, IF YOU OR SOMEONE IN
YOUR FAMILY SHOULD TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19 AFTER ATTENDING
WORSHIP, PLEASE CONTACT THE CHURCH IMMEDIATELY so that we can contact
everyone who attended worship that day.
Thank you for joining us this morning! Welcome back!
The flowers displayed in the chancel today are given to the Glory of God.
Attributions: The graphic on the front cover is a 2019 photograph by Andreas Franz Borchert of the
lower panel of a stained glass window by Alfred Ernest Child in the east aisle of Loughrea St. Brendan's
Cathedral (County Galway, Ireland), depicting the headling of the demon-possessed boy with a quote
of the father in the lower left corner: “credo, domine: adjuva incredulitatem meam” (Mark 9:24). This
work was created in 1934 in the An Túr Gloine workshop in Dublin. A signature “A. E. Child 1934” in
mirror writing is to be seen in the upper right corner. https://commons.wikimedia.org.
Page 2Calling the mm to Worship
CHIMING OF THE HOUR
SHARING OF OUR LIVES
Leader: The Lord be with you.
People: And also with you.
PREPARATION FOR WORSHIP
As the day’s light breaks the darkness of the night,
as the first movements of the morning pierce the night’s stillness,
so a new waking to life dawns within me,
so a fresh beginning opens.
In the early light of this day,
in the first actions of the morning,
let me be awake to life.
In my soul and in my seeing
let me be alive to the gift of this new day,
let me be fully alive.
—From Sounds of the Eternal by J. Philip Newell
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: Our help is in the name of the Lord who made heaven and earth.
People: O come, let us worship and bow down;
Leader: let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
People: For the Lord is our God;
Leader: and we are the people of God’s pasture,
People: and the sheep of God’s hand.
Leader: Come, let us praise the Lord.
People: The Lord’s name be praised.
HYMN* (see next page)
* Please stand if you are able. The congregation is invited to read aloud text in bold print. Page 3Page 4
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
People: Our souls are thirsty, and we try first this solution and then that.
We buy the self help books. We listen to the talk shows.
We avoid the only thing that truly satisfies.
We avoid you, O Lord God,
who is the living water that will nourish the deep places of our lives.
Forgive our wandering. Forgive us for ignoring your gifts. Forgive our doubt.
Leader: Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
PASSING OF THE PEACE
Proclaiming the Word
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE READING
When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and some scribes
arguing with them. When the whole crowd saw him, they were immediately overcome
with awe, and they ran forward to greet him. He asked them, “What are you arguing
about with them?” Someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought you my
son; he has a spirit that makes him unable to speak; and whenever it seizes him, it dashes
him down; and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I asked your
disciples to cast it out, but they could not do so.” He answered them, “You faithless
generation, how much longer must I be among you? How much longer must I put up
with you? Bring him to me.” And they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw
him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about,
foaming at the mouth. Jesus asked the father, “How long has this been happening to
him?” And he said, “From childhood. It has often cast him into the fire and into the
water, to destroy him; but if you are able to do anything, have pity on us and help us.”
Jesus said to him, “If you are able!—All things can be done for the one who believes.”
Immediately the father of the child cried out, “I believe; help my unbelief!” When Jesus
saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You
spirit that keeps this boy from speaking and hearing, I command you, come out of him,
and never enter him again!” After crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and
the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.” But Jesus took him by
the hand and lifted him up, and he was able to stand. When he had entered the house,
his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” He said to them, “This
kind can come out only through prayer.”
Page 5SERMON The Rev. Neta Lindsay Pringle
Responding to the Word
HYMN* vss. 1,2,3 (see next page)
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
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
debts as we forgive our debtors and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
INVITATION TO GENEROSITY
MUSICAL OFFERING Gaul
PRAYER OF DEDICATION
HYMN* vss. 1,2,3,5 (see page 8; soloist sings vs. 4)
BENEDICTION
WORSHIP LEADERSHIP
Transitional Pastor: The Rev. Neta Lindsay Pringle
Associate Pastor: The Rev. Eric Koenig-Reinke
Director of Music: Jeffrey Miller
Music Ministry: Christine Shaw
Usher Captain: Chip Gruber
Media Production:
S.Armstrong, K.Barton, D.Howarth, J.Schubel, P.Worrell, A.Leonhard Page 6Page 7
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