WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Knowing Christ…..Making Christ Known

March 29, 2020 9:45 A.M. Traditional Live-Stream Worship

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GATHERING THOUGHT

“Ezekiel is using a striking image of dry bones being clothed again with muscle and flesh, and enlivened again by the power of God’s breath, to rekindle belief in the power of God to restore a nation, a whole people, that has been utterly destroyed, that seems incapable from a human point of view of any ongoing life.”

W. Eugene March, Presbyterian Outlook Study Helps

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5th Sunday of Lent March 29, 2020 9:45 A.M. PRELUDE

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VOCAL INTROIT

CALL TO WORSHIP

Leader: We have been in the wilderness –

People: Discerning and working, seeking and dreaming.

Leader: We have been in the wilderness –

People: Grieving and wondering, praying and hoping.

Leader: We have been in the wilderness –

People: Longing and running, creating and waiting.

Leader: We have been in the wilderness, but we have not been

alone; for God walks with us, every step of the way.

People: So let us worship the God of our darkest nights and

our brightest days. Let us worship God!

HYMN #39 Great Is Thy Faithfulness

UNISON PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Holy God, without Your breath we are nothing more than dry

bones. Without Your word, we are merely dust. Yet far too

often we think OUR breath is our own, and OUR word is our

truth. We display arrogance and divisiveness, and dismiss those

who think differently, forgetting You may use THEM to teach us

new things. Forgive us. Remind us we are the work of Your

hands, and the very source of our life is in You. Renew us in the

joy of being knit together by Your love, so we might dwell in that

joy each day…....(time to offer silent prayers of confession).

ASSURANCE OF PARDON

Pastor: Friends, believe the good news of the gospel.

People: In Jesus Christ we are forgiven.

APOSTLES’ CREED

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth,

and in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord, who was conceived by

the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius

Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; He descended into hell;

the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into

heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;

from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I

believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic church, the

communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of

the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

MOMENT FOR CHILDREN

PASSING THE PEACE

MINUTE FOR MISSION K-pod Project

PASTORAL PRAYER AND THE LORD’S PRAYER

……….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, and 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, and the power

and the glory forever, Amen.

OFFERING

DOXOLOGY

Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him all

creatures here below. Praise Him above ye heavenly hosts.

Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.

UNISON PRAYER OF DEDICATION (from Feasting on the Word)

Holy God, Giver of life, we thank You for raising us up and

joining us together as one people – Your people – flesh and bone

in the body of Christ. As You have delivered us from death, use

us and our gifts to proclaim the Good News of new life in Jesus

Christ our Lord. AMEN. (please be seated)

SCRIPTURE LESSON Ezekiel 37: 1-14

The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the

spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was

full of bones. He led me all around them; there were very many

lying in the valley, and they were very dry. He said to me, “Mortal,

can these bones live?” I answered, “O Lord GOD, you know.” Then

he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry

bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the Lord GOD to

these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. I

will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and

cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and

you shall know that I am the LORD.” So I prophesied as I had been

commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a

rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. I looked,

and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and

skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. Then he

said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to

the breath: Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O

breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.” I

prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them,

and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude. Then he

said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel.

They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut

off completely.’ Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says

the Lord GOD: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up

from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the

land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I

open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my

people. I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I

will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the

LORD, have spoken and will act,” says the LORD.

Pastor: The Word of the Lord.

People: Thanks be to God.

MEDITATION “Can These Bones Live?” Don Lincoln

HYMN #286 Breathe on Me, Breath of God

BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE

Thank you for worshipping with us today.

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