Zoom Worship 22nd November
Order of worship Sunday 22nd November 2020
Worship video – Taizé: ‘The Kingdom of God’
Welcome and lighting of a candle by Mary Willis
Shared call to worship – Psalm 95:1-7a
Opening prayer and The Lord’s Prayer
NT Bible reading Matthew 25:31-46 read by Denise Avent
Hymn: MP 266 – I cannot tell
Reflection
Prayers for the world
Hymn: MP 424 – Lo! He comes
Blessing
Worship video – Hallelujah mob flash
(the scene is an American shopping Mall open restaurant.)
MP 266
I cannot tell why He, whom angels worship,
should set His love upon the sons of men,
or why, as Shepherd, He should seek the wanderers,
to bring them back, they know not how or when.
But this I know, that He was born of Mary,
when Bethlehem’s manger was His only home,
and that He lived at Nazareth and laboured,
and so the Saviour, Saviour of the world, is come.
I cannot tell how silently He suffered,
as with His peace He graced this place of tears,
or how His heart upon the cross was broken,
the crown of pain to three and thirty years.
But this I know, He heals the broken-hearted,
and stays our sin, and calms our lurking fear,
and lifts the burden from the heavy-laden,
for yet the Saviour, Saviour of the world, is here.
I cannot tell how He will win the nations,
how He will claim His earthly heritage,
how satisfy the needs and aspirations
of east and west, of sinner and of sage.
But this I know, all flesh shall see His glory,
and He shall reap the harvest He has sown,
and some glad day His sun shall shine in splendour
when He the Saviour, Saviour of the world, is known.
I cannot tell how all the lands shall worship,
when, at His bidding, every storm is stilled,
or who can say how great the jubilation
when all the hearts of men with love are filled.
But this I know, the skies will thrill with rapture,
and myriad, myriad human voices sing,
and earth to heaven, and heaven to earth, will answer:
At last the Saviour, Saviour of the world, is King!
MP 424
Lo! He comes, with clouds descending,
once for favoured sinners slain:
thousand thousand saints attending
swell the triumph of His train;
hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!
God appears on earth to reign.
Every eye shall now behold Him
robed in dreadful majesty;
those who set at nought and sold Him,
pierced, and nailed Him to the tree,
deeply wailing . . .
shall the true Messiah see.