April 30
Paul’s Mission
Year 1 ( 2022 – 2023 )
Text:
Acts 13:1-3; 14:8-18
Summary:
Paul and Barnabas are commissioned and sent out from Antioch. In Lystra, they bring healing to a man who could not walk. The townspeople believe them to be Zeus and Hermes and prepare to make sacrifice. They preach to the crowd of the God who made “heaven and the earth and the seas…”
Prayer of Confession
(Drawn from the closing words in Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians)
Guiding Spirit –
You commissioned your servant Paul
to share your Good News.
He went out to commission others;
and his words still call to us:
“Live in peace with each other.
Comfort the discouraged.
Help the weak. Be patient with everyone.
Make sure no one repays one wrong with another.
Always pursue good for each other, and for everyone else.
Rejoice always. Pray continually.
Give thanks in every situation.
Don’t suppress the Spirit. Listen for the voice of prophets among you,
but examine everything carefully.
Hold fast to what is good. Avoid every kind of evil.”
Forgive us when we forget.
Urge us on where we fall short.
Heal our brokenness.
Grant us your grace and peace,
that, more and more, we may live as imitators of Jesus,
who came not to be served, but to serve.
Congregational Song Suggestions
“Breathe on Me, Breath of God”
GTG 286, OLOFOB 136, VT 737
“Called and Gifted for Christ’s Service”
Text: David Bjorlin
Tune Adapted: Edward Hodges
Available from Unbound at giamusic.com
“Enviados somos de Dios (We Have Been Sent by God)”
GTG 747, VT 771
“God of Great and God of Small”
GTG 19
“God, You Spin the Whirling Planets”
GTG 23
“I Will Follow You”
VT 775
“If My Heart is Ready, Move Me”
Text: Adam M.L. Tice
Tune: Noah McLaren
Available from Unbound at giamusic.com
“In My Life, Lord, Be Glorified”
ELW 744, GTG 468, OLOFOB 32, VT 754
“Let’s Walk Together”
VT 6
“Njoo kwetu, Roho mwema/Gracious Spirit”
ELW 401, GTG 287, VT 367
“Spirit of Life”
VT 368
“Take My Life, and Let It Be”
ELW 685, GTG 697, VT 759
“Take My Life, That I May Be (Toma, oh Dios, mi voluntad)”
ELW 583, VT 760
“There is a Balm in Gilead”
ELW 614, GTG 792, OLOFOB 551, VT 647
“Use Us, God”
VT 811
“Wa wa wa Emimimo/Come, O Holy Spirit, Come”
Nigeria
GTG 283
“We Are One in the Spirit”
GTG 300, SSS 232, VT 387
“Womb of Life and Source of Being”
GTG 3, VT 112
Beyond the Hymnal
“People Loving People”
by Chris Wallin, Lee Miller, Michael Busbee (made popular by Garth Brooks)