6th September 2020

New Laigh Kirk A caring welcoming church at the heart of Kilmarnock reaching out to you

Welcome to Worship Celebration of Holy Communion 6th September 2020 11.00am Minister: Rev. David S Cameron Session Clerk: Derek I’Anson

Live Stream: Douglas Bryson Organist: Martin C Sharp

Welcome Welcome to worship. We are delighted you are able to join us on line today as the Minister celebrates the sacrament of Holy Communion and hope you enjoy worshipping with us through your on line connection.

This order of service is posted to help you with the live stream.

Please ensure you log on through the New Laigh Kirk Website http://www.nlk.church/ and click the button Watch Live Sunday 11.00am.

You may wish to have a small piece of bread and small glass of wine or fruit juice that you may take during this service. Whilst not physically together to communally share this Holy meal it nevertheless remains a sign of the thing signified, the spirit unites us from where we are to one another as an invisible grace.

May God richly bless you sharing with us in this way.

The Table of our Lord is open to any Baptised person who loves the Lord and responds in Faith to the invitation “Take, eat”.

Call to worship Jesus calls us here to meet him as, through word and song and prayer, we affirm God’s promised presence where his people live and care.

Praise the God who keeps his promise; praise the Son who calls us friends; praise the Spirit who, among us, to our hopes and fears attends.

Jesus calls us to confess him Word of life and Lord of all, sharer of our flesh and frailness, saving all who fail or fall.

Tell his holy human story; tell his tales that all may hear; tell the world that Christ in glory came to earth to meet us here.

Jesus calls us to each other, vastly different though we are; creed and colour, class and gender neither limit nor debar.

Join the hand of friend and stranger; join the hands of age and youth; join the faithful and the doubter in their common search for truth.

Prayer All age address Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in the highest; Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in the highest; Lord, we lift up your name, With hearts full of praise.

Be exalted, O Lord my God – Hosanna, in the highest.

Glory, glory, glory to the King of kings; Glory, glory, glory to the King of kings; Lord, we lift up your name, With hearts full of praise.

Be exalted , O Lord my God – Glory to the King of kings

Reading :

Exodus 12:1-14 St Matthew 18:15-20

Carried to the table Sermon Holy Communion Statement of Faith

I believe in the suffering God, the wounded Friend, who is the source and sustenance of all things, who refuses to be put off by human stupidity and sin, and will never surrender us to the corruption of evil.

I believe in Christ Jesus, child of Mary, Child of God, who came among us with grace, mercy and peace, who for the glory of God and the healing of humanity went to the cross like a lamb to the slaughter, bearing our griefs and carrying our sorrows, and became the ever living source of salvation.

I believe in the Holy Spirit of God, the companion of Christ’s light and love, who creates the church in the name of Jesus and sustains it against all odds, who counsels us, teaches us, inspires and inflames us with love.

I believe in the one universal church, into which we are baptised by water and the Spirit, the friends of Christ linking life and beyond-life in one unbroken fellowship of love, service and praise.

Amen!

Hymn 376 ‘Twas on the night when doomed to know ‘Twas on that night when doomed to know the eager rage of every foe, that night in which he was betrayed, the Saviour of the world took bread.

And, after thanks and glory given to him that rules in earth and heaven, that symbol of his flesh he broke, and thus to all his followers spoke: ‘My broken body thus I give

for you, for all; take, eat, and live: and oft the sacred rite renew that brings my wondrous love to view’.

Then in his hands the cup he raised, and God anew he thanked and praised, while kindness in his bosom glowed, and from his lips salvation flowed.

‘My blood I thus pour forth,’ he cries, ‘to cleanse the soul in sin that lies; in this the covenant is sealed, and heaven’s eternal grave revealed.

‘With love to all this cup is fraught, let each partake the sacred draught; through latest ages let it pour in memory of my dying hour.’

Prayer of Thanksgiving during which the following hymn will be used Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty! early in the morning our song shall rise to thee; holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty!

God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!

Holy, holy, holy! though the darkness hide thee, though the sinful human eye thy glory may not see, only thou art holy; there is none beside thee, perfect in power, in love, and purity.

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty! all thy works shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea; holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty!

God in three Persons, blessed Trinity.

The peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all Guide me, O thou great Jehovah, pilgrim through this barren land; I am weak, but thou art mighty; hold me with thy powerful hand: Bread of heaven, Bread of heaven, feed me till my want is o’er, feed me till my want is o’er.

Open now the crystal fountain whence the healing stream doth flow; let the fire and cloudy pillar lead me all my journey through: strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer, be thou still my strength and shield, be thou still my strength and shield.

When I tread the verge of Jordan, bid my anxious fears subside!

Death of death, and hell’s destruction, land me safe on Canaan’s side!

Songs of praises, songs of praises, I will ever give to thee, I will ever give to thee.

Benediction