Creativity, Liturgy

Rev Gav

Worship with Thanksgiving

Welcome

Dear friends, let us set aside our time together.

Creator God,
you know us completely,
and hold our hopes,
dreams, and deepest longings.
We are here to worship you,
to pray for the needs of the world,
and to learn from your Word.
Fill us with your Holy Spirit
and open our hearts to your love.
Amen

Meeting God

We all think things, say things, and do things
that we know hurt God and hurt those we love.
We also forget and fail to live the way we should
and disrespect the world around us.
Let us spend a moment in quiet
to recognise our own mistakes and failures
and resolve to recenter our lives around God
before we pray the Lord’s Prayer together.

A moment of silence is kept.

Loving God, who abides in heaven,
you are the Father and Mother of us all.
May your holiness be declared,
your justice be observed,
your will be embraced,
and your sovereignty be established
on earth as in heaven.

With the bread we need for today
feed us

In the hurts we absorb from one another
forgive us

In times of temptation and testing
strengthen us

From trials too great to endure
spare us

And from the grip of all that is evil
free us.

For the kin-dom, the power,
and the glory are yours
now and for ever
Amen

Dear Friends,
may you know that you are
forgiven, loved, and more precious
than you can possibly imagine.
God welcomes you and accepts you just as you are.
May you be filled with God’s
life-giving joy and peace, now and forever.
Amen.

Bible Reading

A Bible reading is read.

This is the word of the Lord
Thanks be to God.

Talk

A talk is given.

Discussion

Thoughts and reflections on the talk.

Prayers

Prayers for the world
for the wider Church,
for the ministry of Fab Church,
for those in need,
and for ourselves.

Thanksgiving

Holy God, as we share in communion together
May your joy and peace fill our hearts

You welcome us to your table
To eat and drink with you

We come before you just as we are
Bruised but made in your image

And as we share in this gift of Christ
We give you thanks and praise.

Holy God,
We thank you for this food and drink
and set it apart that it may it be to us
the body and blood of your precious Son.

On the night you were betrayed you took the bread
After giving thanks you broke it and said
This is my body broken for you
and as you eat it remember me

On the night you were betrayed you held the cup
After giving thanks lifted it up
This is my blood poured out for you
and as you drink it remember me

So we thank you for the wine and for the bread
for we see the life you gave and the blood you shed
And we remember your wondrous love
you gave your body you shed your blood

As we eat and drink
we do so with faith and thanksgiving
remembering that Christ gave himself
that we might have life in all its fullness
Apart but together
we are made one through Christ
Amen

Let us eat our food and drink.

Final Prayer and Blessing

Holy God,
we thank you for giving yourself to us
and for feeding our hearts today.
Send us out in the power of your Spirit
that we may be Jesus to all we meet
and bringers of your love to all.
Amen

And may the blessing of almighty God
be with us and all those we love
now and forever
Amen