Liturgy Email: ______Name:______added to our email listserve and place it in the prayer box back. Are you new to our church? If so, thanks for coming! We hope felt at home here. Please fill out your information below be A SONG FOR COMMUNION Take My Life by Scott Underwood SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST July 16, 2017 THE LORD’S PRAYER We join our voices in solidarity with our brothers and sisters who have prayed this prayer throughout space and time. Liturgy
Emcee: Timothy Horng Our Father in heaven, Musicians: Don Phan-Huy (lead), Alex Kim (guitar), Irene Hou (cello), Vincent Kwok (piano), David Liu (cajon), Hallowed be your name. Hung-Hsin Yen (bass) Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Call to Worship Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Take some time to to make yourself present to the God who makes himself present to us. You are free to Lead us not into temptation, sing or simply sit and allow the music to help you center yourself on God. but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, Great In All the Earth by Gordan Cochran, Jon Neufeld, Tim Neufeld
forever and ever. Amen.
PARTAKING IN THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST Welcome Throughout the summer we will be going through Paul’s Letter to the Colossians SONG OF RESPONSE passage by passage. The central message of this letter has to do with the sufficiency of Let this song be a response to what God has spoken to you this morning. Christ. Paul is writing to remind the Colossians that all that God has for them is found in
Jesus and Jesus alone. There isn’t some gimmick out there waiting to be uncovered or For the Life of the World by Glenn Packiam, Jon Egan some secret they need to be told or some experience they need to have that will give them what already is theirs in Christ. While we live in a time some 2,000 years removed
How Great Is Our God from the writing of this letter, we find the same pull to look elsewhere for that which by Chris Tomlin, Ed Cash, Jesse Reeves has already been given to us in Christ.
Benediction Praise through Song A benediction is a “good word.” As you go back out into the world, may you How Can It Be receive God’s good word of blessing on you. by Jason Ingram, Jeff Johnson, Paul Mabury
May the Lord Jesus Christ give you a heart to love him, My Savior's Love Endures (Magnificat) A will to choose him, by David Heller, Jennie Lee Riddle, JJ Heller An understanding to know him, The strength to follow him. And may the Spirit enable you to know ever more deeply the eternal love God has for you. Offering Amen. The discipline of offering helps loosen our grip on that which has the power to possess us, inviting us into the weekly practice of generosity, gratitude, and simplicity.
Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 If you are a guest, please do not feel obliged to give.
Checks can be made payable to Kaleidoscope Church or by texting “give” to (760) 978-6977. Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. A SONG OF OFFERING Our God Alone by David Gungor, John Arndt
A PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
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SILENCE Greeting Take a moment to pause in silence and tend to God’s still small voice. LEADER: The peace of Christ be with you. PEOPLE: And also with you. For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from him.
Take a few minutes to greet one another in the peace of the Lord. PSALM 62.5
Confession please place in prayer box the back of room.
Announcements In the hands of grace, confession becomes for us a gift to help realign ourselves with TOWN HALL MEETING: SUNDAY, JULY 30th AFTER SERVICE God’s good intentions for us. As we come up on our one year anniversary, we will be holding a town hall meeting after service on Sunday, July 30. We’ll take some time to discuss where we are as a church - what A PRAYER OF CONFESSION we are thankful for and what we could do better. Take some time in the coming weeks to (in unison) collect your thoughts so that we discern together where God is leading us as we head into Most merciful God, our second year as Christ Kaleidoscope. we confess that we have sinned against you 1-YEAR ANNIVERSARY RETREAT: LABOR DAY WEEKEND (SAVE THE DATE) in thought, word, and deed, As our one year anniversary approaches, we thought it would be good to take some time to by what we have done, spend a weekend together as a church in gratitude for God’s work among us. We have and by what we have left undone. reserved Labor Day weekend at The Irvine Ranch Outdoor Education Center. We’ll be doing We have not loved you with our whole heart; some fun team building activities along with ziplining, archery, and hiking. Visit the church we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. website to sign-up.
[PAUSE FOR REFLECTION] CAMBODIA MISSIONS
Our church members have gone to Cambodia every December for the past three years, to We are truly sorry and we earnestly repent. partner with Mercy Ministry Foundation in the work that God is doing in Poipet, Cambodia. This year, we plan to take a team there during the last two weeks of December. Please For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, contact Joseph Chen ([email protected]) if you are interested or would like more details! have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways,
to the glory of your Name. Amen. Hearing God’s Word Book of Common Prayer As we come to God’s Word, may our hearts be fertile ground to receive what God has to say to us.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION (in unison) Hear the good news: O Lord, This saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, You have given us your Word for a light to shine upon our path; that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. (1 Tim. 1:15) grant us so to meditate on that Word and to follow its teaching, He himself bore our sins in his body, on the cross, that we may find in it the light that shines more and more that we might be dead to sin and alive to all that is good. Name until the perfect day; By his wounds we are healed. (1 Peter 2:24) through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Jerome, 347-420)
: ______Genesis 1:26-2:4 (Read by Joseph Chen) Eucharist READER: The Word of the Lord. The term Eucharist literally means “grateful.” In gathering around the bread and the ALL: Thanks be to God. cup, we celebrate together a meal of thanksgiving.
Colossians 1:15-20 (Read by Vincent Kwok) WORDS OF INSTITUTION [1 Corinthians 11.23-26] READER: The Word of the Lord. ALL: Thanks be to God. PRAYER FOR THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT
SERMON INVITATION TO THE TABLE He is the Image of the Invisible God We now invite those who believe in Christ to come and receive the body of our Lord Ken Hsu Jesus Christ which he gave for you, and his blood which he shed for you.
Bread Server: Michelle Chung / Cup Server: Andrew Tai 2 3