Gathering Music
“Hananim”
Greeting
Patricia Hennigan
Welcome to chapel! We are glad you’ve come to worship and pray with us. During the service, we ask that you keep yourself muted so that everyone can hear our worship leaders. You are welcome to turn your camera on or leave it off. If you’d like to follow along you can find the order of worship at http://www.drewchapel.com. We invite you to greet one another in the chat.
Come, let us worship God together.
Opening Song
Led by Brendan Fox
Reading
1 Corinthians 1:18-25 NRSV
For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
Meditation
Reading: Rev. Carol Lakota Eastin
Rev. Dr. Althea Spencer-Miller
Musical Response
Communion Liturgy
Rev. Dr. Althea Spencer-Miller
Musical Response
“May You Be Filled”
Mark Miller
Prayer
Holy God, we come before you thankful that you love us as we are. We are creatures of your hand; we are a community formed by your spirit. You are the potter; we are the clay. With your sure and loving hands, shape us, through the grace of Jesus the Christ. Amen.
Blessing
Rev. Dr. Althea Spencer Miller
Sending
Mark Miller
Worship Notes:
Prayer: from Ruth C. Duck and Maren C. Tirabassi, eds. Touch Holiness: Resources for Worship, Updated. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2007. Loc. 1081.
Communion Liturgy: adapted from Beacon Church, Philadelphia http://www.thewordatbeacon.org
