Round Hill Community Church

ORDER OF SERVICE July 19, 2015

Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

PRELUDE Andante Mendelssohn We Thank Thee Buxtehude

WORDS OF WELCOME

INTROIT

CALL TO WORSHIP Leader: Come, Holy Spirit, come.All: Come as wind and blow away our tearsLeader: Come as fire and burn away our fearsAll: Come as light and show the path to onenessLeader: Convert, consecrate, complete - until we are wholly thine.All Come Holy Spirit, come! *HYMN No. 575 Come and Find the Quiet Center

*OPENING PRAYER Eternal One, all of creation delights in your blessings;every creature lives only by your grace.In your abundant, astonishing love,strengthen us in our inner being

with power through your abiding Spiritthat Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith,as we are rooted and grounded in love.As you form us into your holy Body,make us know the love of Christ,so that we may be filled with all the fullness of you.

*The congregation is invited to stand

*THE LORD’S PRAYER Our Father who art in heaven,hallowed be Thy name.Thy kingdom come,Thy will be done,on earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread,and forgive us our trespasses,as we forgive those who trespass against us,and lead us not into temptation,but deliver us from evil.For Thine is the kingdom,and the power, and the glory,forever and ever. Amen.

*GLORIA PATRIGlory be to the Father, and to the Son,and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning,is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Children may now leave for Church School.SUMMER HYMN SING

ANTHEM Peace Shaker Tune

SCRIPTURE LESSON Ephesians 2:11-22So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision”- a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands - remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.

SERMON We Share The Same Spirit Frank Basler

*HYMN No. 494 They’ll Know We Are Christians

OFFERINGInvitationAnthem The Call Vaughn Williams*Doxology Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him,

all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host: Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

*Hymn No. 720 O Beautiful for Spacious Skies (verse 1)

PASTORAL PRAYER

*HYMN No. 272 The Church’s One Foundation

CHURCH PRAYEROur Heavenly Father, shed forth thy blessed spirit upon all our lives. Make each one of us an instrument in thy hands for good. Purify our hearts, strengthen our minds and bodies, fill us with Christian love. Let no pride, no self-conceit, no rivalry, no ill-will ever spring up among us. Make us earnest and true, wise and prudent, giving no just cause for offense and may thy holy peace rest upon us this day and every day throughout the coming week, sweetening our trials, cheering us in our work, and keeping us faithful to the end, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

BENEDICTION & CHORAL RESPONSE

POSTLUDE Toccata in G Major Pachelbel

ROUND HILL COMMUNITY CHURCH MISSION STATEMENTWe, the members of the Round Hill Community Church, a self-governing, non-denominational body, seek to foster a community of faith where people of all ages and backgrounds pursue spiritual growth; where God is worshipped in Word and praised in music; where friends are made and hurts are healed. We seek to be a community where individuals commit their time and resources to education, fellowship, and to helping those in need among our Church

family and in the broader world. We are a church where faith, hope, justice and love are valued, and above all, Jesus is Lord.

ROUND HILL COMMUNITY CHURCH CREEDI believe in God, the one universal Father of all mankind, revealed supremely in Jesus Christ, our Lord, and present with us to guide, comfort and inspire in the Holy Spirit. I believe in the Kingdom of God; and in the mission of the Christian Church to proclaim the Gospel to all the world, exalting the worship of the Lord our God, and laboring for the progress of knowledge, the promotion of righteousness, the reign of peace, and the realization of human brotherhood. United in Christian love, we pray and labor for the coming of the Kingdom, the triumph of righteousness and the life everlasting. Amen.

CHURCH NEWS

Thank you to Bruce and Helen Dixon for ushering today.

Thank you to Michael Sandifer for serving as our Liturgist today.

Special thanks to Frank Basler for serving as our guest preacher today. After seminary, Frank worked in the private sector, then consulted for more than 25 years with corporations, nonprofits, and churches on organization effectiveness and strategic planning. A graduate of Yale University, Union Theological Seminary, and the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, he also holds a Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the Westchester Institute. Frank has been approved for ordination in the UCC. His sense of call expresses

itself in work with clergy. He facilitates a support group for retired pastors and plans to begin a similar community of practice for senior ministers this fall. He also meets monthly as a “dialogue partner” with several pastors.

The flowers in the Sanctuary are given with love by Ines Kingsley and family in memory of John Kingsley.

We thank for Randy and Sandy Motland for hosting Coffee Hour today. Please join them in the Parlor following worship.Please keep the volunteers from RHCC in your prayers this week as they work and play with their new friends at the Cheyenne River Lakota Sioux Reservation.

375th Anniversary Greenwich, Connecticut, 1640-2015 is the new exhibit in Les Beaux Arts Gallery. Take some time during Coffee Hour to go on a photographic tour of historic Northwest Greenwich.

REFLECTIONThe Holy Spirit can only be experienced by those who are believers. Jesus now lives and rules through the Catholic Church, which the Holy Spirit brings to life. From the Church, through the power of the Holy Spirit, Christ brings every believer to a new existence, to deeper intimacy and directs our deeds and our journey to eternal life.

Saint Paul enumerates the fruits of the Holy Spirit as charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty,

self-control and chastity (Galatians 5:22). The fruits are signs or manifestations of his presence in our soul. It is through our daily spiritual life that these fruits allow us to persevere on our journey to eternity and allow us to be effective and courageous witnesses of the Gospel.

Certainly, as we read this list, we can see how beautiful our lives can be when we allow the action of the Holy Spirit to permeate our entire being.

Father James Farfaglia

The Happy Priest– Come Holy Spirit, Catholic Online

Senior Minister: The Rev. Dr. Edward G. HorstmannMinister Emeritus: The Rev. Dr. Ralph Ahlberg

Minister of Music: Christopher Kabala Church School Coordinator: Connie Blunden395 Round Hill Road, Greenwich, CT 06831

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