Pointe of Grace Lutheran Church 5425 Harbour Pointe Blvd, Mukilteo, WA 98275 425 - 263 - 8730 www.pointeofgrace.org Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist Sunday, February 2, 2020 9:30 a.m.
A few notes of welcome.... All are welcome! We ’ re glad to be together in God ’ s service today. • Ask a host/usher if you need help with anything. • Hearing assistance devices are available at the sound booth. • Our freewill offering supports the general operating budget or may be designated for special projects. • All are invited to receive Jesus in the bread and wine of communion. There is both a common cup and intinction available. If you do not wish to partake in communion today, we hope you will come forward for a blessing with your hands crossed/or folded. • If you wish, a prayer minister will pray with you during communion time. • Most songs are in the “ ELW ” - the red hymnal book—which you ’ ve been handed as you entered today. The page numbers or hymn number are listed by the songs. • To help follow along and participate in worship today, there are arrows indicating when to stand as you are able. • Readings and responses are in light print and/or bold print. The assembly ’ s parts are in bold face type. • The “ Welcome ” form is a place for everyone to share their presence in worship. Let us know you were here and share any feedback/suggestions or prayer requests. These forms are collected later in the service during the freewill Offering. • The Children ’ s “ Pray - Ground ” is a quiet space for toddlers/infants and parents to sit together as a needed break from worship seats. We ask parents to sit and be present at all times with their children in this space. Thank you Presentation of Our Lord February 2, 2020 9:30 a.m. + Pointe of Grace Cross + Connie Lewis designed the open cross to hold a cruciform that reflects the crucifixion of Good Friday. The top of the cross is open to remind us that Christ rose and the story didn ’ t end with his death. The Cruciform is placed in the wooden cross on Good Friday and removed before Easter morning. Other times of the year, there will be a dove in its center to remind us the Holy Spirit is always present and guiding us.
We begin worship with + Gathering + the “ Gathering. ” A time of welcome, song, and greeting. It ’ s our Words of Welcome way of turning towards God in worship, opening our hearts and ears to hear the Word, and to prepare ourselves to Confession and Forgiveness partake in the Meal. All may make the sign of the cross, the sign marked at baptism, as the presiding minister begins. Blessed be the holy Trinity, ☩ one God, Please turn to the center of the sanctuary where who creates us and forms us, the baptismal font is who redeems us and calls us, located to start the who unites us and sends us. Amen. Confession and Forgiveness. Gathered in God ’ s presence, let us confess our sin. (Silence is kept for reflection.) Mighty and loving God, we confess that we are captive to sin and cannot free ourselves. We seek our own way. We divide the body of Christ. In your mercy, cleanse us and heal us. Let the words of our mouths, the thoughts of our hearts, and everything that we do be filled with faith, hope, and love. Amen. Hear the voice of Jesus: “ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me to proclaim release to the captives. ” In the name of ☩ Jesus Christ, I proclaim to you that your sins are forgiven and you are released. The joy of the Lord is your strength, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit are yours forever. Amen. Gathering Hymn Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing ELW 807 You may bow as a sign of reverence as the cross processes forward The assembly turns to follow the cross as it processes through the through the assembly. assembly. You may bow as the cross passes to reverence the mystery of Christ with us. Page 1
Apostolic Greeting The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And also with you. Prayer of the Day Almighty and ever - living God, your only - begotten Son was presented this day in the temple. May we be presented to you with clean and pure hearts by the same Jesus Christ, our great high priest, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. The assembly is seated after the prayer. + Word + First Reading Malachi 3:1 - 4 A reading from the prophet Malachi 1 See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the This reading concludes Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of a larger section (2:17 — 3:5) the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of in which the prophet hosts. 2 But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when speaks of the coming of he appears? the God of justice. For he is like a refiner ’ s fire and like fullers ’ soap; 3 he will sit as a refiner Malachi looks for that day when the wondrous and purifier of silver, and he will purify the descendants of Levi and refine power of God will purify them like gold and silver, until they present offerings to the Lord in the priestly descendants righteousness. 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to of Levi who minister in the temple at Jerusalem. the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years. The reading concludes: Holy Wisdom, Holy Word. Thanks be to God. Psalm 84 1 How dear to me is your dwelling, O Lord of hosts! 2 My soul has a desire and longing for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God. 3 Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young, by the side of your altars, O Lord of hosts, my How dear to me is your king and my God. dwelling, 4 Happy are they who dwell in your house! O Lord . (Ps. 84:1) They will always be praising you. 5 Happy are the people whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on the pilgrims ’ way. Page 2
6 Those who go through the balsam valley will find it a place of springs, for the early rains have covered it with pools of water. 7 They will climb from height to height, and the God of gods will be seen in Zion. 8 Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. 9 Behold our defender, O God; and look upon the face of your anointed. 10 For one day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. 11 For the Lord God is both sun and shield, bestowing grace and glory; no good thing will the Lord withhold from those who walk with integrity. 12 O Lord of hosts, happy are they who put their trust in you! Second Reading Hebrews 2:14 - 18 Jesus shared human A reading from the a letter to the Hebrews nature fully so that his death might be for all 14 Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, [Jesus] himself humans a liberation from slavery to death ’ s likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might destroy power. Here the writer the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and free those uses the image of who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death. 16 For it is priestly service in the clear that he did not come to help angels, but the descendants of Abra- temple as a way of describing the life and ham. 17 Therefore he had to become like his brothers and sisters in every saving death of the Lord respect, so that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in the ser- Jesus. He is the high vice of God, to make a sacrifice of atonement for the sins of the peo- priest who offers his life ple. 18 Because he himself was tested by what he suffered, he is able to on behalf of his brothers and sisters. help those who are being tested. The reading concludes: Holy Wisdom, Holy Word. Thanks be to God. Gospel Acclamation ELW page 151 The assembly stands to welcome the Gospel. Page 3
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