Order of Service for Sun Oct 30, 2022 Peacemaking 2
Worship Leader: Dennis Giesbrecht
Speaker: Marcus Shantz
Music: Bob Loewen/ Carmen Wiebe
Technical Team: Jon Brandt/ Stephanie Hanna
Ushers: Kathryn Gray/ Rachel Schmidt
Coffee Hour Hosts: David and Sherry Nelligan
Intro Songs (VT 34): We Praise You, O God, Our Redeemer
(VT 437): The Lord Is My Light
Welcome & Announcements
Call to worship
Hymn (VT 549): Be Thou My Vision
Scripture: Isaiah 1:11-18 (New International Version)
Kingdom Report re Conrad Grebel (Marcus Shantz)
Hymn of the month (VT 44): We Long to Know Her
Giving with Gratitude
Children’s Time (Audrey)
Scripture: Luke 19:1-10 (Zacchaeus story).
Hymn (VT 540): Will you come and follow me
Sermon: “To seek out the lost”
Hymn (VT #156): There’s a wideness in God’s mercy
Congregational Prayer
Hymn (VT 737): Breathe on Me, Breath of God
Benediction (VT 1046)
Scriptures this week
Isaiah 1:11-18
11
“The multitude of your sacrifices—
what are they to me?” says the Lord.
“I have more than enough of burnt offerings,
of rams and the fat of fattened animals;
I have no pleasure
in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
12 When you come to appear before me,
who has asked this of you,
this trampling of my courts?
13 Stop bringing meaningless offerings!
Your incense is detestable to me.
New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations—
I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.
14 Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals
I hate with all my being.
They have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,
I hide my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
I am not listening.
Your hands are full of blood!
16 Wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong.
17 Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.[a]
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.
18 “Come now, let us settle the matter,”
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.
Luke 19:1-10
19 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. 3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” 6 So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.”
8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
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