Formed in the Spirit

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A Poetic Response

Let the breath of your Spirit stir our souls with new resolve

to be your sons and daughters.

Let it sweep from our lives lost days, dusty dreams, leftover love.

Let the breath of your Spirit come gently - refreshing our insights for your

church and people.

Let it waft new hope and assurance into hearts made heavy

by unrest and uncertainty.

Let it enlighten and encourage your servants -

blessing them with courage, strength, and a lightness of spirit.

And when worry and weariness invade - grace them

with solitude and retreat,

breathing your renewal upon them.

-Danny Belrose

Opening Music: Spirit of the Living God

Invocation

Prayer for Peace

At the 2019 World Conference, on the 25th anniversary of the Community of Christ Temple, a Peace Pillar was added to the World Plaza as part of the celebration. This limestone sculpture has around 100 different words for peace engraved in its surface. Look at the photo and the list of many languages represented on the peace pillar. These words came from all the places in the world where Community of Christ has a presence.

Light the Peace Candle

Several months after the World Conference, the Peace Pillar was vandalized and broken into several pieces. There were wide-ranging discussions about what to do and finally, rather than replacing the Peace Pillar, it was repaired. It stands as a symbol that peace is not perfect and demonstrates in a very real way how we continue to form a vision of Peace on Earth even when things are disrupted.

Prayer

Creator, Redeemer, and Presence,

Bless us with the kind of peace that goes beyond the surface. When we are broken, send your Spirit to form us into wounded healers and peacemakers.

We are grateful for a sense of your peace that transcends perfectionism so it can become real in our lives, even when we feel torn into pieces. Teach us, O God of pruning hooks and ploughshares, how peace is possible. Teach us your ways of peace. Amen.

Special Music: Oceans

Sermon

Preparation and Serving of the Lord’s Supper

Offertory

Benediction

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