Synod Worship Sat 18 June

For those who have been asking about songs and other sources used for Worship at the recent Presbytery & Synod meeting, here is Saturday's Order of Service

The Otherness of God

Pre-service music

God of Wonders
CCLI song 3118747  ©  2000 New Spring (Admin. by Universal Music Publishing MGB Australia Pty Limited)  Storm Boy Music (Admin. by Crossroad Distributors Pty. Ltd.)  Meaux Mercy (Admin. by Crossroad Distributors Pty. Ltd.)

Here I am to Worship
CCLI song 3266032  ©  2000 Thankyou Music (Admin. by Crossroad Distributors Pty. Ltd.)

Welcome

Call to Worship (from Psalm 8)
Includes lighting of a candle

Otherness

“Worship thrives on wonder. We can admire, appreciate and perhaps even adore someone without our having a sense of wonder. But we cannot worship without wonder. For worship to be worship, it must contain something of the otherness of God…..I've come to love that word—"otherness." It's such a great worship word. Otherness gives us a sense that God is so pure, matchless and unique that no one else and nothing else even comes close. He is altogether glorious—unequalled in splendor and unrivalled in power. He is beyond the grasp of human reason—far above the reach of even the loftiest scientific mind. He is inexhaustible, immeasurable and unfathomable—eternal, immortal and invisible. The highest mountain peaks and the deepest canyon depths are just tiny echoes of His proclaimed greatness. And the blazing stars above, the faintest emblems of the full measure of His glory.”[1]

Song

How Great is our God 
CCLI song  4348399  © worshiptogether.com songs  sixsteps Music  Alletrop Music
Chris Tomlin   Ed Cash  Jesse Reeves

Prayer of Thanksgiving: Psalm 8 Today's New International Version (TNIV)

Song

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty.. 
TiS 111  V1,2,3,5 with added hallelujahs. CCLI song #4345378
© 2004 Word Music, LLC  Rocketwon Music, LLC  Sweater Weather Music (Admin by CopyCare Pacific Pty Ltd)  Catherine Winkworth  Christy Nockels  Joachim Neander  Nathan Nockels

Bible Reading:  Matthew 25,  31 - 40 TNIV

Reflection “The Other and Other-ness” Lyn Leane

Prayers of Intercession Christa Megaw
Including prayer for  our partner church in the Philippines

Song

Mighty to Save
CCLI song 4591782  © 2006 Hillsong Publishing (Admin. by Hillsong Publishing (Australia))  Ben Fielding | Reuben Morgan

Blessing

“Embrace the hope to which God has called us.
Recognise Christ in friend and stranger,
and as Christ has been gracious to you,
so be gracious to those in need.

We go in peace to love and serve the Lord,
........In the name of Christ. Amen.[2]

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[1] Excerpt from Facedown, © 2004 by Matt Redman. Published by Regal Books, www.regalbooks.com

[2] ©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net