Order of Sunday Services
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Mortals and Immortals
Prelude
Hymn 600
Who was that man in Galilee,
Healing and teaching beside the sea?
What was the power that made him strong?
How can we learn to sing his song?
He told us,
I am the light of the world,
I am the light of the world,
So follow me and shine out
For I am the light of the world!
Why are we here, and who are we?
What is his purpose for you and me?
Our little light seems small and dim
Next to the blaze that comes from him!
He told us,
You are the salt of the earth,
You are the light of the world.
So follow me and shine out
For you are the light of the world!
Christ is the light with which we shine,
Lit from within by this love divine.
Step out with courage, dare to go,
Give from the heart the love you know.
He told us,
We are the salt of the earth,
We are the light of the world.
We follow him and shine out
For Christ is the light of the world!
Christian Science Hymnal, No. 600, Words: Fenella Bennetts and Robert Witney. Music: Andrew Brewis. Used by permission.
Scriptural Selection
Acts 9:1-18
Silent Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation
Our Father which art in heaven,
Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Adorable One.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present.
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Enable us to know, — as in heaven, so on earth, — God is omnipotent, supreme.
Give us this day our daily bread;
Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections;
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And Love is reflected in love;
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;
And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth us from sin, disease, and death.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.
For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All.
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 16-17
Hymn 496
Holy Spirit, Light divine,
Shine upon this heart of mine;
Kindle every high desire;
Cleanse my thought in Your pure fire.
Holy Spirit, Light divine,
Shine upon this heart of mine.
Shine upon this heart of mine,
Holy Spirit, Light divine.
Holy Spirit, Peace divine,
Still this restless heart of mine;
Speak to calm the tossing sea,
Stayed in Your tranquillity.
Holy Spirit, Peace divine,
Still this restless heart of mine.
Still this restless heart of mine,
Holy Spirit, Peace divine.
Holy Spirit, all divine,
Dwell within this heart of mine;
Bid my troubled thoughts be still;
With Your peace my spirit fill.
Holy Spirit, all divine,
Dwell within this heart of mine.
Dwell within this heart of mine,
Holy Spirit, all divine.
Christian Science Hymnal, No. 496, Words: Andrew Reed and Samuel Longfellow. Music: Laura Lapointe and Stephen LaPointe. Used by permission.
Notices
Solo
Lisa Huffaker, Soloist
"Teach me to walk in the light"
Explanatory Note
Subject of the Lesson-Sermon
Mortals and Immortals
Golden Text
Isaiah 2:5 come
. . . come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
Responsive Reading
Ephesians 4:7 unto, 13, 17, 18, 20–24; 5:1, 8
. . . unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
But ye have not so learned Christ;
If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Lesson-Sermon
Collection
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Hymn 592
REFRAIN 1
We are walking in the light of God,
We are walking in the light of God.
We are walking in the light of God,
We are walking in the light of God.
We are walking, we are walking, ooh
We are walking in the light of God.
We are walking, we are walking, ooh
We are walking in the light of God.
We are all God’s children, expressions of one Mind,
Living in the radiance of Spirit all divine.
Every heart and nation is answering the call
To a true salvation knowing God is All-in-all.
REFRAIN 2
We are praying in the light of God,
We are praying in the light of God.
We are praying in the light of God,
We are praying in the light of God.
We are praying, we are praying, ooh
We are praying in the light of God.
We are praying, we are praying, ooh
We are praying in the light of God.
As we turn our faces, up to the light of Life,
Harmony replaces all pain and fear and strife.
See the heavenly harvest so bountifully poured,
As we raise our voices being all of one accord!
REFRAIN 3
We are singing in the light of God,
We are singing in the light of God.
We are singing in the light of God,
We are singing in the light of God.
We are walking, we are praying, ooh
We are singing in the light of God.
We are walking, we are praying, ooh
We are singing in the light of God.
Christian Science Hymnal, No. 592, Words: Zulu. Music: South African Melody. Used by permission.
The scientific statement of being and its correlative scripture
There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 468:9-15)
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
(I John 3:1–3)
Benediction
I Peter 2:9
Postlude
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