The Celebration of the Gospel
The Celebration of the Gospel
May 10, 2020 – The Fifth Sunday of Easter
“In my Mother’s house there are many rooms.”
—John 14.2
_____________We are Received as the Beloved of God _______
PRELUDE
GREETING
OPENING PRAYER
Loving God, you who have given us birth,
you who have provided for us a home in Creation,
you who hold us in your lap and walk with us all our days:
as a loving mother tends her children so you love and tend us,
and we thank you. We praise you. We worship you.
May your Spirit guide our worship, and your love guide our lives. Amen.
SONG – Fairest Lord Jesus (UM Hymnal # 189)
_____________We are Transformed by the Word of Christ _______
CHILDREN’S TIME –
GOSPEL – John 14.1-12
Jesus said, “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Abba’s house there are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.
“You know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to Abba God except through me. If you know me, you will know Abba God also. From now on you do know God and have seen God.”
Philip said to him, “Rabbi, show us God, and we will be satisfied.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen God. How can you say, ‘Show us God? Do you not believe that I am in God and God is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but God who dwells in me works through me. Believe me that I am in God and God is in me; but if you do not, then believe me because of the works themselves.”
Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to God.
+
PSALTER – Psalm 131
O God, my mind is not on lofty things,
my eyes are not raised too high;
I do not occupy myself with things
too great and too marvelous for me.
But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with its mother;
my soul is like a weaned child,
satisfied and resting.
O people, hope in the Holy One
from this time on and forevermore.
+
SERMON – Mother God
SONG – Children of the Heavenly Mother (UM Hymnal # 141, altered)
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
SHARING THE PEACE OF CHRIST
_____________We are Sent in the Power of the Holy Spirit _______
SONG –
BLESSING AND SENDING
RESPONSE
May the grace and peace of Christ be with you, my friends.
Go and share the love of God, love that never ends.
POSTLUDE