For November's Theme of "Turning the World Upside Down"

CALL TO WORSHIP
We have been called, called to be a community of faith,
called by the God who turns the world upside down.
In response to that call we come to sing and pray and listen,
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Come and worship, come and celebrate God’s transforming presence.

OPENING PRAYER
God who has created and is creating,
you have brought us together today.
God who challenges our assumptions of how the world must be with how it could be,
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In this time of prayer and song and listening,
Help us catch the dream, encourage us to help turn the world upside down as we live into your Reign.
We pray in the name of Jesus, who proclaimed a new, transformed world and who taught us to pray saying...
LORD’S PRAYER

COMMISSIONING
With God, in Christ, through the winds of the Holy Spirit the world is turned upside down
The first shall be last, the greatest shall be least.
We go into the world to share a different vision, a different dream.
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As we go to help upend assumptions, to help turn things upside down
we are assured that the Triune God: Parent, Child and Spirit, holds us in love.
Thanks be to God.