Sunday November 8, 2026
Message: Rev. Derek White
Liturgist: Dave Nock
†CALL TO WORSHIP:
One: We come from different places, carrying different stories.
All: Yet God’s grace gathers us together.
One: Christ calls us beyond the names and labels that divide us.
All: He calls us to love one another as He has loved us.
One: The Spirit is at work among us, making all things new.
All: Let us worship God and discover what we may become together!
†OPENING HYMN: # 376 “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”
CALL TO CONFESSION
PRAYER OF CONFESSION: Gracious and loving God, you have welcomed us in love, yet wee confess that we have not always welcomed others. We have judged people by appearances, allowed our differences to become divisions, and sometimes failed to recognize Your image in those around us. We have been quick to speak and slow to listen, eager to be right and reluctant to forgive. Forgive us, Lord. Open our hearts to one another. Rewew us through Your Spirit, and teach us to love as Jesus has loved us. Make us a people whose lives reflect Your grace, whose relationships bear the fruit of Your Spirit, and whose love reaches beyond these walls into the world. Lord, hear now our silent prayers of confession.
SILENT PRAYER OF CONFESSION: We pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.
ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS:
All: Thanks be to God! Amen.
†PASSING OF THE PEACE:
One: Having received God’s grace and forgiveness, let us now share the peace of Christ with one another. The peace of Christ be with you!
All: And also with you!
One: Let us greet one another with signs of Christ’s peace.
†CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE: # 579 “Gloria Patri”
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION: Gracious God, as we hear Your word proclaimed, open our minds to understand and our hearts to receive what You would teach us. Through Your spirit, help us look beyond the differences that divide us and recognize Your presence in one another. May these Scriptures not simply inform what we believe, but transform how we live and love together. Through Jesus Christ, the Living Word, we pray. Amen.
GOSPEL READING: John 13: 31-35
EPISTLE READING: Galatians 6: 15-17
One: This is the word of God for the people of God.
All: Thanks be to God.
TIME FOR ALL GOD’S CHILDREN
MESSAGE: “Marked by Love: A New Way of Being Human” Rev. Derek White
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH: All: In Jesus Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself. We confess that Jesus Christ is God with us, the eternal Son of the Father, who became human and lived among us to fulfill the work of reconciliation. We believe that the risen Christ is present in the church by the power of the Holy Spirit to continue and complete his mission. This work of God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is the foundation of all we say about God, ourselves, and the world.
SPECIAL MUSIC
STEWARDSHIP MOMENT
CALL FOR GOD’S TITHES AND OUR OFFERING
†PASTORAL PRAYER AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
CLOSING HYMN: “They’ll Know We Are Christians”
†BENEDICTION
†CHORAL DISMISSAL WITH BLESSING: “You Are the Vine”
One: We come from different places, carrying different stories.
All: Yet God’s grace gathers us together.
One: Christ calls us beyond the names and labels that divide us.
All: He calls us to love one another as He has loved us.
One: The Spirit is at work among us, making all things new.
All: Let us worship God and discover what we may become together!
†OPENING HYMN: # 376 “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”
CALL TO CONFESSION
PRAYER OF CONFESSION: Gracious and loving God, you have welcomed us in love, yet wee confess that we have not always welcomed others. We have judged people by appearances, allowed our differences to become divisions, and sometimes failed to recognize Your image in those around us. We have been quick to speak and slow to listen, eager to be right and reluctant to forgive. Forgive us, Lord. Open our hearts to one another. Rewew us through Your Spirit, and teach us to love as Jesus has loved us. Make us a people whose lives reflect Your grace, whose relationships bear the fruit of Your Spirit, and whose love reaches beyond these walls into the world. Lord, hear now our silent prayers of confession.
SILENT PRAYER OF CONFESSION: We pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.
ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS:
All: Thanks be to God! Amen.
†PASSING OF THE PEACE:
One: Having received God’s grace and forgiveness, let us now share the peace of Christ with one another. The peace of Christ be with you!
All: And also with you!
One: Let us greet one another with signs of Christ’s peace.
†CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE: # 579 “Gloria Patri”
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION: Gracious God, as we hear Your word proclaimed, open our minds to understand and our hearts to receive what You would teach us. Through Your spirit, help us look beyond the differences that divide us and recognize Your presence in one another. May these Scriptures not simply inform what we believe, but transform how we live and love together. Through Jesus Christ, the Living Word, we pray. Amen.
GOSPEL READING: John 13: 31-35
EPISTLE READING: Galatians 6: 15-17
One: This is the word of God for the people of God.
All: Thanks be to God.
TIME FOR ALL GOD’S CHILDREN
MESSAGE: “Marked by Love: A New Way of Being Human” Rev. Derek White
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH: All: In Jesus Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself. We confess that Jesus Christ is God with us, the eternal Son of the Father, who became human and lived among us to fulfill the work of reconciliation. We believe that the risen Christ is present in the church by the power of the Holy Spirit to continue and complete his mission. This work of God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is the foundation of all we say about God, ourselves, and the world.
SPECIAL MUSIC
STEWARDSHIP MOMENT
CALL FOR GOD’S TITHES AND OUR OFFERING
†PASTORAL PRAYER AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
CLOSING HYMN: “They’ll Know We Are Christians”
†BENEDICTION
†CHORAL DISMISSAL WITH BLESSING: “You Are the Vine”