7TH SUNDAY OF EASTER 06-01-2025 10:00AM “Hybrid” Worship

7TH SUNDAY OF EASTER
06-01-2025 10:00AM “Hybrid” Worship

+ WE ANNOUNCE THE VICTORY +

OPENING SONG: “So Glad I’m Here” Tan #304
OPENING RITE FOR EASTER 7:
L The Spirit and the bride cry out –
C “COME, LORD JESUS!”
L Let everyone who hears call forth –
C “COME, LORD JESUS!”
L To all those who are thirsty –
C “COME, LORD JESUS!”
L To all those who eagerly wish or desperately pray for the gift of the water of life –
C “COME, LORD JESUS!”
L May he whole church on earth and all of creation plead –
C “COME, LORD JESUS, COME QUICKLY! HALLELUJAH!”
L Brothers and sisters, death, despair, and the devil don’t have the last word!
C We are Easter people, always rising!
SONG OF PRAISE: “Lord, I lift your name on high, Lord, I love to sing your praises.
I’m so glad you’re in my life, I’m so glad you came to save us.
You came from heaven to earth to show the way;
from the earth to the cross, my debt to pay;
from the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky; Lord, I lift your name on high!”

THE PRAYER OF THE DAY (together) :
Gracious God, we want to know you, worship you, and serve you.
Unite us as your people to have love, speak love, show love, and offer love to others through Jesus Christ.
Amen.

+ WE PROCLAIM GOD’S SAVING WORD +

FIRST READING: ACTS 16:16-34
[Christian witness in good times and bad.]
SECOND READING: REVELATION 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21
[Christian hope centered in Christ’s sacrificial death and his resurrection victory.]
GOSPEL VERSE: “Oh, how He loves you and me. Oh, how He loves you and me.
He gave His life, what more can He give?
OH, HOW HE LOVES YOU; OH, HOW HE LOVES ME;

OH, HOW HE LOVES YOU AND ME!

Jesus to Calv’ry did go, His love for this world to show.
What He did there brought hope from despair…”
GOSPEL READING: JOHN 17:20-26
[Christian unity that links God and Jesus and all believers through love!]
SONG SELECTION: ALL SAINTS CHOIR
THE SERMON: Pastor Gwen or Pastor Neil
SONG RESPONSE: “Standin’ in the Need of Prayer” Tan #441
THE PRAYERS… We pray that all people might be transformed by the GOOD NEWS of Easter!

AN AFFIRMATION OF OUR FAITH:
I trust in God who has made me his own. I know that God loves me. To God I am as precious as his own
Son, Jesus Christ, who lived and died in obedience to his Father’s will. Jesus suffered our pain, and
through his suffering and death has brought us into fellowship with God.
I believe that God through his Spirit will give me strength when I am oppressed and weary… will give me love
when I am afraid and lonely… and will guide his Church to make people free at last.
I believe that God lives in the fellowship of those who trust him, and that God wants all people to be brought
into that fellowship.
I believe that nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Living in hope and trust, I will deny myself, take up my cross, and walk the Jesus walk of faithful servant love.
Amen.

+ WE SHARE GOD’S NOURISHING MEAL +

OFFERING [We are the faces and the hearts, the hands and the feet that carry forth and make real the joy and
the justice, the hope and the promise of Jesus Christ to a world that searches, sins, and sorrows.]
Those in the Sanctuary can put their offering in the offering plate to share their gratitude and their
generosity in response to Christ’s love. Those who are farther away might: mail a check or money
order to St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2169 74th Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
19138… contribute online through bit.ly/stpetersgiving and set up a one-time donation or a
recurring weekly gift to selected categories… or text Give+ at 833-914-0896 and follow the
instructions to register and record your contribution. God has blessed us to be a blessing!
SONG SELECTION: ALL SAINTS CHOIR
THE OFFERTORY SONG: “Get all excited, go tell ev’rybody that Jesus Christ is King!
Get all excited, go tell ev’rybody that Jesus Christ is King!
Get all excited, go tell ev’rybody that Jesus Christ is King!
Jesus Christ is still the King of kings, the King of kings!”
OFFERING PRAYER led by the Communion Assistant:
O God, it is only by your amazing grace that we are Easter-alive today! Now give us the bold confidence
and the passionate love to dry tears, to lift up broken hearts, and to testify with our gifts and our lives that
there is NEW LIFE IN CHRIST. Amen.
THE PREFACE… We prepare to celebrate the LORD’S SUPPER with humble joy!
L The Lord be with you. C And also with you.
L Lift up your hearts! C We lift them up in love for God!
L Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. C It is right to give God our thanks and praise.
L The Lord delivers us from sin and death… C … and grants us salvation and eternal life!
L [continues the Preface]… we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
C [singing…] “Holy, holy, holy, holy,
holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!
and we lift our hearts before you as a token of our love,
holy, holy, holy, holy.
Precious Jesus, precious Jesus,
We’re so glad that you redeemed us, precious Jesus…
Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit,
come and fill our hearts anew, O Holy Spirit…”
THE EUCHARISTIC WORDS by the Celebrant, who recalls and re-enacts Jesus’ Holy Meal.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
COMMUNION AND BLESSINGS… All believers in Christ are welcome at the Lord’s Table! We will have “continuous
distribution” with wafers and the option of wine or grape juice. TO GIVE US LIFE, HE WAS WILLING TO DIE!

COMMUNION SONGS: Tan #456 Tan #505
THE COMMUNION BLESSING by the Celebrant after all have communed.
POST-COMMUNION PRAYER by the Communion Assistant.
+ WE ARE SENT TO SHOW AND TELL +

THE BENEDICTION:
L Leave with a message upon your heart, on your lips, revealed through your daily living: I have seen the Lord!
Go in the faith-filled power of the Risen Lord (+) to love God and to serve your neighbor in all that you do!
C (singing…) “A-MEN! A-MEN! A- – – MEN!”
CLOSING SONG: “Revive Us Again” Tan #569