Worship Guide - Trinity Sunday, Year A

Worship with 1 Click

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NOTE: If you'd like to try watching all of this Sunday's worship service in a series of linked videos, one after the other (with text included), you can begin by clicking this link. Just press the button that says "PLAY ALL" and sit back and relax. Otherwise, proceed as normal through the sections.
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It's important to note that the text video sections are each approximately 30 seconds long, which may or may not be enough time to read, so please be ready to pause the video at these times until you're finished reading (the space bar in most cases will pause and restart your video). ​

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Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. –2 Corinthians 13:11
If you rush to the end of this blessing, you can too easily give into that chronic and short-sighted original sin of the privileged: live in peace and the God of love and peace will be with you. 

Peace is not an absence of conflict. It comes by way of justice. And as long as justice is denied, peace will be delayed. “Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another…” The apostle charts the way to peace here. It is filled with active verbs, with activity. It does not stand still. So let us together, in agreement, listening to this Word, move forward through worship.

Messenger of Peace – Barbara Pearson, Manchester, England

​How might you rightly engage today? Perhaps you’ll sense the need to resist being a passive “consumer” of worship. Engage your body as you remember the bodies of our black and brown siblings. Stand up for portions. Walk. Sing. Slow down. Listen. Taste and see. Commit. Then act. “The moving walkway of discrimination, prejudice and bigotry favors the racist and standing still places one in this jurisdiction of hatred.” So says Jason Campbell in a recent opinion piece. Faith is not passive. It moves. It acts. It amends. Set your space for worship. May the impatient God of love and peace be with you as you enter in.

Connections with Andrea

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Prelude

If you have prayers you would like to share, please do so here. Parents, this is a great way to encourage your children's prayers as well. These will be shared by email to our St Andrew prayer list so that we pray for what you hold by name. This information is not shared online in a searchable form.

Gathering Song

Holiness, Word, Power,
you reveal yourself
as one God in three persons,
a mighty, creative, life-generating dancer
who invites your creation to join you.
Catch us up in your love
and lead us into your world
to call others to follow you
with singing and rejoicing. Amen.

Opening Hymn

“Teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you” So says Jesus to his disciples (Matthew 28:10). Who can take even a cursory look at our world today and imagine we have done anything of the sort?

But let’s be clear. It is a deep look that is required—inside our own human hearts, and more importantly, a deep and unflinching look at the systems of injustice that pervade our American story and through inaction preserve the supremacy of white bodies at the expense of those black and 

brown images of God struggling to breathe. It is much easier to find scapegoats for our wilderness wanderings than it is to look in the mirror. But look, we must at our own complacency and inaction, and repent of it, for…
“In the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation's summers of riots are caused by our nation's winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again.”– Martin Luther King, Jr., Stanford University, 1967, “The Other America”
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And, knowing repentance leads to the very heart of God where there is forgiveness, hear this good news: “Remember,” Jesus said, “I am with you always to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20b).
​Now, bless someone else. Send a text to a couple of people. Make a call. Who comes to mind for you? Wish them well. More than that, wish them the peace that comes with justice. Then click below.

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Listen

Sing into our ears,
O Spirit, the holy word of life.
Tell us who we are and to whom we belong
so that we may live with gratitude for all that you have done.
Amen.

Genesis 1:1-2:4a † Psalm 8 † 2 Corinthians 13:11-12 † Matthew 28:16-20​

Psalm Response

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Reflection

A printed version of the sermon is available here.

Song of Response

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Give Thanks

If you haven’t already, set the elements—some bread, some juice or wine—in the room where you worship electronically in these days with our faith community. Bring them with joy, giving thanks for God’s provision.

​If a joy or a concern has come to mind, please share it with the assembly here so you do not carry it alone. These will be shared by email to our St Andrew prayer list so that we pray for what you hold by name. This information is emailed to a curated group, not shared or posted online in a searchable form.

As we respond to God's grace and new life, consider those ways you can express gratitude, thanksgiving and blessing. And remember that we continue to keep our financial commitments to our mission partners and staff. Thank you for remembering to send in your financial pledges and offerings!

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Sending Song

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Blessing and Charge

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