This is part of the worship series,
"Rooted and Established in Love”
Introduction
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4—World Communion Sunday
Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8—All Saints /Reformation Sunday
Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12—Christ the King Sunday
Week Five: The Witness Tree
Scripture: Isaiah 55
Faith Practice: Witness/Evangelism
Gathering
Call to Worship
“This Is My Father’s World” Babcock
Our World Belongs to God
As followers of Jesus Christ,
living in this world—
which some seek to control,
and others view with despair—
we declare with joy and trust:
Our world belongs to God!
From the beginning,
through all the crises of our times,
until the kingdom fully comes,
God keeps covenant forever:
Our world belongs to God!
God is King: Let the earth be glad!
Christ is victor: his rule has begun!
The Spirit is at work: creation is renewed!
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
Jesus ascended in triumph,
raising our humanity to the heavenly throne.
All authority, glory, and sovereign power
are given to him.
There he hears our prayers
and pleads our cause before the Father.
Blessed are all
who take refuge in him.
Our hope for a new creation is not tied
to what humans can do,
for we believe that one day
every challenge to God’s rule will be crushed.
His kingdom will fully come,
and the Lord will rule.
Come, Lord Jesus, come.
—Our World Belongs to God, para. 1, 2, 27, 55 © 2008, Christian Reformed Church in North America, Grand Rapids MI. www.crcna.org. Used by permission.
Song
“Rejoice, the Lord Is King” Wesley
Choral Anthem
“The Trees of the Field / Come to Me” arr. Larson
Word
Scripture
Isaiah 55
Message
The Witness Tree
Response
Sending
Revised Common Lectionary
Year A: Season after Pentecost—Proper 10 (15)
Year C: Lent—Third Sunday in Lent
Year C: Epiphany—Eighth Sunday after the Epiphany
Year C: Season after Pentecost—Proper 3 (8)
