Order, Words, & Voices
02.04.24, Seeing Needs, Mark 5:21-43
Order
Pre Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close
Songs Amazing Love Billy/Team
Thank You Lord
Reading and Prayer Petty
Songs Goodness of God Billy/Team
Sanctuary
Passage Mark 4:35-40 Renee
Message Seeing Needs Rick
Music Sanctuary Billy/Team
Community/Benediction Rick
Closing Peace Rick
Music The Goodness of God (Chorus) Billy/Team
Post Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close
Music (slides) Billy/Team
Amazing Love Song # 2456623
Verse
I’m forgiven
Because You were forsaken
I’m accepted
You were condemned
I’m alive and well
Your Spirit is within me
Because You died
And rose again
Chorus
Amazing love
How can it be
That You my King
Would die for me
Amazing love
I know it’s true
It’s my joy to honor You
In all I do I honor You
Ending
You are my King
You are my King
Jesus You are my King
Jesus You are my King
Thank You Lord Song # 577439
Verse
For all that You’ve done
I will thank You
For all that You’re going to do
For all that You’ve promised
And all that You are
Is all that has carried me through
Jesus I thank You
Pre-Chorus
And I thank You thank You Lord
(And I thank You thank You Lord)
Thank You thank You Lord
(Thank You thank You)
Chorus
Thank You for loving
and setting me free
Thank You for giving Your life
just for me
How I thank You Jesus I thank You
Gratefully thank You thank You
Participatory Response (Slides) Petty
Leader: God calls us to the risk of stepping out of the ordinary
Response: God calls us to push through the crowd to truth and healing
Leader: God calls us to truth
Response: God calls us to Jesus
Leader: God calls us to advocate for ourselves
Response: God calls us to advocate for others
Leader: God calls us to truth
Response: God calls us to Jesus
Leader: God calls us to not be trapped in the acceptable
Response: God calls us to not be caged by the judgements of others
Leader: God calls us to truth
Response: God calls us to Jesus
Leader: Join us in the prayer of Jesus,
[Slide] Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.
[Slide] Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.
[Slide] Give us this day our daily bread.
[Slide] Forgive us our trespasses, while we forgive those who trespass against us.
[Slide] And, lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
[Slide] For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Music (slides) Billy/Team
Goodness Of God Song # 7117726
Verse 1
I love You Lord
Oh Your mercy never fails me
All my days
I’ve been held in Your hands
From the moment that I wake up
Until I lay my head
I will sing of the goodness of God
Chorus
All my life You have been faithful
All my life You have been so so good
With every breath that I am able
I will sing of the goodness of God
Verse 2
I love Your voice
You have led me through the fire
In darkest night
You are close like no other
I’ve known You as a father
I’ve known You as a friend
I have lived in the goodness of God
Chorus
All my life You have been faithful
All my life You have been so so good
With every breath that I am able
I will sing of the goodness of God
Sanctuary Song 24140
Chorus
Lord prepare me
To be a sanctuary
Pure and holy
Tried and true
With thanksgiving
I’ll be a living
Sanctuary for You
Passage (Slides) Rennee
One of the leaders of the synagogue named Jairus, came to Jesus and fell at Jesus’ feet repeatedly pleading, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.” So Jesus went with Jairus.
On their way a large crowd followed and pressed against Jesus. There was a woman in the crowd who had been suffering from hemorrhaging for twelve years.
The woman had endured much, and spent all that she had on medical care while only getting worse. She had heard about Jesus and thought that she would just touch his cloak unnoticed and be healed.
After pushing her way through the crowd and touching Jesus’ cloak her hemorrhaging stopped immediately, and she was healed.
Jesus was instantly aware that power had gone forth from him and turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my cloak?” His disciples said to him, “You can see the crowd pressing in on you; how can you say, ‘Who touched me?’”
As Jesus looked at the crowd, the woman in fear and trembling fell down before Jesus and told him the whole truth. Jesus said to her, “Your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed.”
Then people from Jairus’ house came and said to him, “Your daughter is dead.” Jesus overheard and said to the synagogue leader, “Do not be afraid; only believe.”
Mark 5:22-36
Message Rick
Miracles
- Around 40 miracle acts performed by Jesus (depends on definition and boundaries of defined acts).
- Over 20 acts of healing
- Around 3 acts of rising from death
- 1-2 acts of releasing from evil spirits
Difficulty in preaching from healing and raising from death passages
- This passage is a victorious confrontation with greatest enemy of humanity/eternity
Intercalation
- Explanation
- In today’s passage
Today’s passage
- Jairus – Holy Advocate for daughter
- Unnamed woman – Holy Advocate for self
- Jesus – Holy Advocate for all (Sees needs, automatic compassion and mercy)
[Screen Share]
What do we do with these healing and rising stories?
- [Slide] Jesus is Our Advocate. Focus on Jesus the actions of Jesus but rather what those actions teach us, that Jesus is our advocate, Jesus is a reflection of God – God is Compassion, Mercy, Love.
- [Slide] We are called to be Advocate for others and ourself. God calls us to be an advocate for ourselves and for others. God calls us to see the needs of others. Holy Work – more so than fire and brimstone.
- [Slide] We are called to trust the work of God in the midst of our advocacy. God calls us to trust God’s response to our and the needs of others.
Called to Holy and Risky Work
- [Slide] James Langford, bipartisan immigration work, refugees/immigrants need advocate
- [Slide] Alistair Begg, scorned pastor, advocate – your grandchild needs you – child needed an advocate
- [Slide] Dr. Margaret Heagarty, Advocate, Children’s Health Harlem Hospital – children harmed by AIDS and crack cocaine epidemics of 80s. Children needed an advocate – Heagarty’s advocacy was contagious even in time of danger/risk
[Slide] We are called to Holy Work
We are called to see the needs of others, we are called to a Holy Work on earth.
How we embrace and accept, how we comfort, how we vote, how we work/live
[End Screen Share]
Pray
Music (Slides) Billy/Team
Sanctuary Song 24140
Chorus
Lord prepare me
To be a sanctuary
Pure and holy
Tried and true
With thanksgiving
I’ll be a living
Sanctuary for You
Community (Slides) Rick
- [Slide] Next Sunday, 02.11, Mark 8:27 – 9:13, Struggling with Expectations
- [Slide] ‘In-Between’ Bible Study, Tuesday, Feb 13 at Nielsen’s
- [Slide] Lent, what will you do to prepare?
Closing Benediction (Slides) Rick
As we leave this place, may we do so with an ever increasing knowledge of the the length and breadth and height and depth of God’s grace and mercy while knowing that a full comprehension is beyond our understanding.
May we live in a state of gratefulness knowing that God hears the needs that we voice as well as those we carry in silence. May our lives be lived in a state of trust standing on the readiness and willingness of our God who hears, sees, and acts.
May we lay aside our own expectations while we watch for God’s works and as we settle into God’s embrace. May we take take the hand of God as we venture onto his path, and follow his lead as we hang on to God’s ways.
May God’s sight to see our needs be reflected through our lives in our world. May we take notice of the needs we see, hear, and feel. May we respect the pain of heartbreak, the misery of physical pain, the grief of loss, and the weight of caring for loved ones.
As we go, may we go in the arms of God.
Closing Peace (Slides) Rick
[Slide] Leader: May the peace of the Lord go with you.
[Slide] Response: And also with you.
[Slide] Leader: Go in the peace of the Lord.
Music [Slides] Lynn/Team
Goodness Of God (2 times)
All my life You have been faithful
All my life You have been so so good
With every breath that I am able
I will sing of the goodness of God
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