Chapel Online

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If you are unable to join us at that time the recording of Chapel will be available on Moodle.

Welcome and Announcements

Introduction

Call to Worship | Based on Ephesians 4:1-6 (NIV)

Live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
God of the gospel, give us courage to respond to your call
wholeheartedly.

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one
another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit
through the bond of peace.
Spirit of unity, give us energy for the work of community.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope
when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and
Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Father of all, give us vision to see our oneness in Christ.

But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.
Gracious Messiah, give us grace to see and to offer our gifts.

Lead a life worthy of the calling you have received.
Lord, we cannot do this alone; we dare not try this alone. So we
gather as your people.

A Community of Worship and Prayer

Ephesians 5:18-20 (NIV)
18Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be
filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another with psalms, hymns,
and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to
the Lord, 20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything,
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Reflections

Thomas Bergen and Josh (Seunghoon) Song

Alleluia

© 1972 Jerry Sinclair

A Community of Holistic Wellbeing

Ephesians 3:16-19 (NIV)
16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with
power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may
dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being
rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all
the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and
deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses
knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the
fullness of God.

Reflections

Diane and Stinton and Daniel Melvill Jones

Wait For The Lord

© 1991 Jacques Berthier

Wait for the Lord
Whose day is near
Wait for the Lord
Be strong, take heart

A Global Community

Ephesians 2:19-22 (NIV)
19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but
fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his
household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In
him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy
temple in the Lord. 22And in him you too are being built together to
become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

Reflections

Alex Macdonald and Sandra Park

All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name

Text: Edward Perronet | Tune (Coronation): Oliver Holden

All hail the pow’r of Jesus’ name
Let angels prostrate fall
Bring forth the royal diadem
And crown him Lord of all
Bring forth the royal diadem
And crown him Lord of all

Ye chosen seed of Israel’s race
Ye ransomed from the fall
Hail him who saves you by his grace
And crown him Lord of all
Hail him who saves you by his grace
And crown him Lord of all

Let every kindred, every tribe
Responsive to the call
To him all majesty ascribe
And crown him Lord of all
To him all majesty ascribe
And crown him Lord of all

O that with yonder sacred throng
We at his feet may fall
We’ll join the everlasting song
And crown him Lord of all
We’ll join the everlasting song
And crown him Lord of all

A Community of Hospitality and Connection

Ephesians 4:15-16 (NIV)
15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in
every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is,
Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by
every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

Reflections

Claire Perini and Shannon Williamson

The Lord Our God Is Good

© 2021 Words and Music by Paul Zach, Wendell Kimbrough, Jessica Fox, Liz Vice, and Orlando Palmer

   The Lord our God is good
   The Lord our God is good
   Full of kindness and compassion
   Merciful and just
   The Lord our God is good

Who else knows our deepest pain
Bears it as his own
Finds us in our naked shame,
Clothes and brings us home

Who takes his inheritance
And gives it all away
Welcomes guests to feast with him
Who never can repay

Prayers of the People

“A Liturgy for the Labors of Community” by Douglas McKelvey from Every Moment Holy, Volume 1

Benediction

Ephesians 3:20-21 (NIV)
20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we
ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all
generations, for ever and ever! Amen.