Welcome & Announcements

Prelude        "As the Deer”    Grace Ringers

Call to Worship:
Our God is a shepherding God.
Our God knows us by name.
Our God will never stop searching for us.  So if you feel lost,
then know that God is seeking you.
If you feel found,
then know that God will never leave.
This is the promise of scripture.
This is the promise of God’s love.
Let us worship our with-us God.

**Hymn       #187  "Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us"

**Call to Confession

**Prayer of Confession
If God is a painter, let us be the brush.  If God is a musician, let us be the song.  If God is an architect, let us be the tools.  Let us be the hands.  Let us be the builders.  But if God is a shepherd, who never stops seeking, let us be willing to be found, no matter how lost we feel.  Our God is never far away.  Forgive us for forgetting this good news. Amen.

**Words of Forgiveness
So hear and believe the good news of the gospel:  No matter how far we wander, we can never wander from the bounds of God’s grace.  We are loved.  We are forgiven.  We are not alone.  Thanks be to God!  Amen.

**Affirmation of Faith
We believe in Jesus Christ, who said to ordinary people, “Follow me,” and with his love, changed the world.  We believe in the Holy Spirit who tethers us to all of creation, nudging us toward deeper and more intentional faith.  And we believe in the Creator who brings the sun over the horizon each morning, allowing every day to be a new beginning.  So with this new day, with Jesus’ invitation ringing in our ears, and the Holy Spirit’s tethering love, we realign our hopes with our words, our dreams with our prayers, our intentions with our actions.  Jesus, we believe.  Guide our feet. Amen.

Anthem (10:15)     "Grace"     Grace Notes Choir

Time with Young Disciples (10:15)

Scripture     Luke 15: 1-7

Message

Prayers of the People with 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.

**Hymn     "Lost and Found”   TUNE: BEACH SPRING        by Anna Strickland

**Benediction

**Choral Reflection     from “When Our Minds Are Set and Certain” by Hannah C. Brown
When our minds are set and certain grant us grace that intercedes.  When our hearts are hard with habit ease us into gentle deeds. When our ways are planned and patterned, guide us out of rote routine. Come reform our fixed intentions; teach us in the in between.

Postlude

**congregation standing in body or spirit
congregational responses in bold

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“Everything in Between: Meeting God in the Midst of Extremes” worship series by A Sanctified Art
worship liturgy written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed | A Sanctified Art | sanctifiedart.org