OPENING DIALOGUE FOR WORSHIP FULL FORCE IS

Free us, Jesus, from the pursuit of food. Be glad, friends, Jesus has bread and fish to spare. Feed us, Jesus, and fill us with hope. Rejoice, folks, Jesus is in our midst. Contemporary Call to Worship.

Opening Dialogue For Worship Full Force Is

You catch us off guard and expose our weakness.Volume II - Worship. Radiant God, source of light, as you surrounded Jesus with your glory, so you come to us in penetrating brightness. Our request for the light of God to shine in our lives brightly and in full force is heard and will be answered. You are not hiding the hardness of ingratitude, but hoping for the in-breaking of the Spirit.Prayer for Transfiguration Sunday.

To this should be added that experience shows that doing the right thing, in the way I have described, is often the way toward being in the right frame. Therefore, it is not folly for a Christian to assume that there is a residue of gratitude in his heart when he speaks and sings of God's goodness even though he feels little or nothing. And I doubt that I know my bad ones well enough to see the traces of grace. I doubt that I know my good ones well enough to see all the traces of contamination. It is meet and right to worship the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit the Trinity one.Thanksgiving with the Mouth Stirs Up Thankfulness in the HeartMoreover, we should probably ask the despairing saint, 'Do you know your heart so well that you are sure the words of thanks have no trace of gratitude in them?' I, for one, distrust my own assessment of my motives.

Doing it as you can is the way to be able to do it better. You have not the power of your comforts but have you no power of your tongues? Say not that you are unfit for thanks and praises unless you have a praising heart and were the children of God for every man, good and bad, is bound to praise God, and to be thankful for all that he hath received, and to do it as well as he can, rather than leave it undone. If you cannot do it with the joy that you should, yet do it as you can.