| Pentecost Sunday – May 31, 2020

What a beautiful sunny morning for us all on this Pentecost Sunday!

We have again a complete online audio service and a pre-recorded video service.

If you’d like to follow the service, the order of service is below with lyrics and responsives.

For parents with young children, there is a PDF file to help children stay engaged during the message.

 
MORNINGSIDE-HIGH PARK
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Warmly welcomes everyone to this online audio worship service!
Pentecost Sunday, May 31, 2020

WE GATHER IN GOD’S PRESENCE

Prelude, Welcome & Announcements 

Responsive Call to Worship
One: Breathe upon us, Holy Spirit,
All: and inspire our thoughts and actions.
One: Stir in our hearts, Holy Spirit,
All: and fill us with energy to spread joy in the world.
One: Strengthen us, Holy Spirit,
All: and move us to bring hope to those in despair.
One: Breathe in us, Holy Spirit,
All: as we worship and witness to God’s coming reign.

Opening Hymn – On this assembled Host
On this assembled host, in this accepted hour,
O Spirit, as at Pentecost, descend in grace and power.

We meet with one accord in our appointed place,
And wait the promise of our Lord, the Spirit of all grace.

Like mighty rushing wind upon the waves beneath,
Move with one impulse every mind; one soul, one spirit breathe.

The young, the old inspire with wisdom from above,
And give us heart and tongues of fire to pray and praise and love.

Spirit of light, explore and chase our gloom away,
Your splendour shining more and more unto God’s perfect day.
Words by James Montgomery
Music by Genevan Psalter, William Henry Monk

Prayers of Adoration, Confession & Lord’s Prayer
Let us pray…
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,
for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory,
for ever and ever, Amen.

Words of Assurance & Peace of Christ
Beloved, let us hear and believe the good news…

One: May the peace of the Lord be always with you.
All: And also with you.

WE HEAR GOD’S WORD

Children’s Message with Tori

Hymn – Breathe on me breath of God
Breathe on me, breath of God; fill me with life a new,
That I may love what thou dost love and do what thou wouldst do.

Breathe on me, breath of God, until my heart is pure,
Until with Thee I will one will to do and to endure.

Breathe on me, breath of God, ‘til I am wholly Thine,
Until this earthly part of me glows with Thy fire divine.

Breathe on me, breath of God, so shall I never die,
But live with Thee the perfect life of thine eternally.
Words by Edwin Hatch
Music by Robert Jackson

Scripture Reading – 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 (GNT)

…and no one can confess “Jesus is Lord,” without being guided by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them. 5 There are different ways of serving, but the same Lord is served. 6 There are different abilities to perform service, but the same God gives ability to all for their particular service. 7 The Spirit’s presence is shown in some way in each person for the good of all. 8 The Spirit gives one person a message full of wisdom, while to another person the same Spirit gives a message full of knowledge. 9 One and the same Spirit gives faith to one person, while to another person he gives the power to heal. 10 The Spirit gives one person the power to work miracles; to another, the gift of speaking God’s message; and to yet another, the ability to tell the difference between gifts that come from the Spirit and those that do not. To one person he gives the ability to speak in strange tongues, and to another he gives the ability to explain what is said. 11 But it is one and the same Spirit who does all this; as he wishes, he gives a different gift to each person.
12 Christ is like a single body, which has many parts; it is still one body, even though it is made up of different parts. 13 In the same way, all of us, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether slaves or free, have been baptized into the one body by the same Spirit, and we have all been given the one Spirit to drink.One: The Word of the Lord.
  All: Thanks be to God.

Message – Building up community in these hard times…

WE RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD
Hymn – I am the church! You are the church!
Refrain: I am the church! You are the church!
We are the church together!
All who follow Jesus, all around the world!
Yes, we’re the church together!

Verse 1: The church is not a building; the church is not a steeple;
The church not a resting place; the church is a people.

Refrain: I am the church! You are the church!
We are the church together!
All who follow Jesus, all around the world!
Yes, we’re the church together!

Verse 2: We’re many kinds of people, with many kinds of faces,
All colours and all ages, too, from all times, and places.

Refrain: I am the church! You are the church!
We are the church together!
All who follow Jesus, all around the world!
Yes, we’re the church together!

Verse 3: Sometimes the church is marching; sometimes it’s
bravely burning;
Sometimes it’s riding, sometimes hiding; always it’s learning.

Refrain: I am the church! You are the church!
We are the church together!
All who follow Jesus, all around the world!
Yes, we’re the church together!

Verse 4: And when the people gather, there’s singing and there’s
praying;
There’s laughing and there’s crying sometimes, all of it saying;

Refrain: I am the church! You are the church!
We are the church together!
All who follow Jesus, all around the world!
Yes, we’re the church together!

Verse 5: At Pentecost some people received the Holy Spirit
And told the Good News through the world to all who would hear
it.

Refrain: I am the church! You are the church!
We are the church together!
All who follow Jesus, all around the world!
Yes, we’re the church together!
Words and Music by Richard Avery, Donalf Marsh

The Invitation to Offering

Offertory – “Holy Spirit, living breath of God”
by Stuart Townend and Keith Getty

The Invitation to Communion

The Apostle’s Creed
We believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.

We believe in Jesus Christ,
God’s only son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died and was buried;

he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come again to judge the living
and the dead.

We believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.

Hymn before Communion – Come Holy Spirit
Come Holy Spirit, fall afresh on me
Fill me with Your power
Satisfy my needs
Only You can make my whole
Give me strength to make me grow
Come Holy Spirit, fall afresh on me
(Repeat from the top)
Words and Music by Malcolm Fletcher

Holy Communion

WE GO INTO THE WORLD TO SERVE
Hymn – Filled with the Spirit’s power
Filled with the Spirit’s power, with one accord
The infant church confessed its risen Lord.
O Holy Spirit, in the church today
No less Your power of fellowship display.Now with the mind of Christ set us on fire,
That unity may be our great desire.
Give joy and peace; give faith to hear Your call,
And readiness in each to work for all.

Widen our love, good Spirit, to embrace
In Your strong care all those of every race.
Like wink and fire with life among us move,
Til we are known as Christ’s and Christians prove.
Words by J.R. Peacey
Music by Henry Lawes

Benediction   

Choral Amen                       
Sing amen. Amen, we praise your name, O God.
Sing amen. Amen, we praise your name, O God.
Sing amen. Amen, amen, amen, amen,
amen, we praise your name, O God.

Postlude