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Order of Service Nov 10, 2024@11am Eastern

Second Presbyterian Church Oil City, Pennsylvania
November 10, 2024 25th Sunday After Pentecost

Prelude Tech Crew
Welcome and Announcements

Call to Worship (Based on Psalm 146)
L/ Praise the Lord O my soul, as long as I live; sing praises from the heart of my being.
P/ Do not trust in rulers or governments, do not trust in any humans but trust in God alone.
L/ Hope is in the Lord, the one who made the heavens and the earth. Our hope is in the Lord who is faithful and just.
P/ The Lord cares for the oppressed. The Lord seeks the blind and lame. The Lord frees the captive and feeds the hungry. The way of the wicked brings death but the Lord leads us in Life.
L/ The Lord our God reigns in all generations. Praise the name of the Lord.

Hymn of Praise # 43 Great is Thy Faithfulness

Prayer of Confession
L/ Let us pause and think on our relationship with God and each other, confessing our sins to God.
<silent confession and reflection>
P/ Lord Jesus, we confess that we too easily loose hope. We are so focused on our own needs and desires that we think it evil if we need to change. We confess that we covet and we obsess on our own comforts. WE confess that we think of ourselves before we think of anyone else. Open our eyes to your truth. Teach us to see the least ones as our responsibility. Teach us to be the hands and feet you send into the world. Teach us to count our wealth in your kingdom and in the bonds of community instead of in things and money and position.
L/ Hear these words of scripture: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified freely by God’s grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” (Romans 3: 23-24) I declare we are forgiven and remade by the grace of God and the blood of Jesus, filled by the Spirit with New Life!

Special Music Pam Keverline

Passing of the Peace

Children’s Chat Tammy Botts

Reading Scripture
Prayer for Illumination
Old Testament: Micah 7: 2-7
New Testament: Mark 12: 38-44
Sermon “Do You Live as the Covenant Community?”
Rev. Dr. Tim Harmon

Affirmation of Faith (Confession of 1967, PCUSA Book of Confessions, 9.46)

All/ The reconciliation of man through Jesus Christ makes it plain that enslaving poverty in a world of abundance is an intolerable violation of God’s good creation. Because Jesus identified himself with the needy and exploited, the cause of the world’s poor is the cause of Christ’s disciples. The church cannot condone poverty, whether it is te product of unjust social structures, exploitation of the defenseless, lack of national resources, absence of technological understanding, or rapid expansions of populations. The church calls every person to use their abilities, their possessions, and the fruits of technology as gifts entrusted to them by God for the maintenance of their family and the advancement of the common welfare. It encourages those forces in human society that raise hopes for better conditions and provide them with opportunity for decent living. A church that is indifferent to poverty or evades responsibility in economic affairs or is open to one social class only or expects gratitude for its benevolence makes a mockery of reconciliation and offers no acceptable worship to God.


Rite of Stewardship

L/ Hear this word of scripture: “The earth is the Lord’s, and all that is in it, the world and those who live upon it.” (Psalm 24:1) Let us return to God that which God has given us that we might live in Covenant and become stewards of the resources and talents for the common welfare.

We Offer Our Tithes of Time, Talent, and Resources
Special Music Pam Keverline
Praise God From Whom All Blessing Flows

All// Heaven and earth are yours O Lord. We give you of your own provision. (1 Chronicles 29:14) Open our hearts to be a community that cares for all and thus shows Your love in practical ways.

Elder or Deacon/ Blessed are you O God, maker of all things. Through your goodness you have blessed us with these gifts: ourselves, our time, and our possessions. Use us and what we have here gathered in feeding the world, showing your love, and supporting each other in our common ministry in your kingdom. Help us to follow the example of your Son Jesus who gave all of himself for our salvation. Amen.

Prayers of the People
Lord’s Prayer (using debts)

Prayer of Thanksgiving (from our Reformed Heritage)
L/ Write your blessed name, O Lord, upon my heart and remain indelibly engraven so that no prosperity, no adversity shall ever move me from your love. Be in me a strong tower of defense, a comforter in tribulation, a deliverer in distress, a very present help in trouble and a guide to heaven through all the dangers and temptations of life. (Thomas a Kempis, 1455, priest and devotional writer)

Benediction
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