DOWNLOAD INCLUDES:

• 31 pg PDF Words for Worship document. Liturgy is inspired by our Words for the Beginning Advent theme and weekly sub-themes and scriptures. For each Sunday in Advent, Christmas Eve, and Epiphany Sunday, we provide:

  • Call to Worship

  • Candle Lighting Liturgy for the Advent Wreath (Advent 1-4 and Christmas Eve only)

  • Call to Confession

  • Prayer of Confession

  • Words of Forgiveness

  • Prayer for Illumination

  • Affirmation of Faith

  • Prayer of the People

  The Words for Worship document also includes the following liturgy that is general to the series:

  • Invitation to the Table

  • Great Prayer of Thanksgiving

  • Prayer After Communion

  • Benediction

EXCERPT:

Great Prayer of Thanksgiving for the series

Loving God,
We come to this Table today longing for a new beginning.

In a world that so often feels like it’s ending,
we crave the hope of a new beginning.
We long to heal from the endings and crash landings of our hurting world and start again,
rooted in your good news.

So week by week, bit by bit, we return to your Word.
Week by week, bit by bit, we return to each other.
Week by week, and bit by bit, we repeat the truths that we so often need to hear, trusting that
by your grace, it is never too late to start again.

So in this spirit of beginnings, we come to your Table.
Once more we ask that you would meet us here.
Pour out your Spirit on this ordinary meal, that in this bread and cup we may glimpse a new day…

CREDIT INFO:

Liturgy by Rev. Sarah Speed | A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.org