DisciplesNet Worship #146, “The Potter’s Hands” (Cobb, 06.29.2013)
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Welcome! We're so glad you've found DisciplesNet Church, located along the internet highway and especially created for people who connect with church best this way. We hope you will join us now for 29 minutes of uplifting worship together. This week Rev. Anita Cobb brings a message of hope, "The Potter's Hands," using Jeremiah 18:1-6 as text.
Our time together includes prayer, scripture, singing, and listening to the word, together with people in times and places all around the world.
As we do every week, our time together includes a time of communion (breaking of the bread) where you may choose to participate, or simply meditate as we tell of Jesus' invitation to "do this in remembrance of me."
If you would like to share with us at the table that extends beyond boundaries of time, place, and structure, then we ask that you prepare a wafer, cracker, or bread and a drink. As we pray, we are praying that our blessing extends to where you are. If you are unable to eat or drink, you may want to use a symbolic gesture or mental symbol as you come together at this table of remembrance with us. (Scroll down for an Order of Worship)
We hope that as you join us for worship you will feel a blessing from being part. Please tell friends, family, and others you know about our online church that is here with doors that are always open, walls as wide as the world, and always room at the table.
ORDER OF WORSHIP:
1. Opening background music and hymn: "Have Thine Own Way," from CD, Favorite Hymns and Prayers, published by Chalice Press.
2. Welcome: Russ Smith
3. "Have Thine Own Way," sung by Southport Christian Church congregation
3. Scripture: Jeremiah 18:1-6 (NRSV), read by Audrey Borschel
4. Pastor's Prayer with Lord's Prayer: Deb Phelps
5. Song: Steal Away, sung by Twana A. Harris
6. Message: "The Potter's Hands," Rev. Anita Cobb
7. Song: Softly and Tenderly, by Gospel Quartet, Southport Christian Church
8. Communion: Bob Shaw
9. Communion song, background: "Let Us Break Bread Together" sung by DisciplesNet singers
10. Sending out
11. Closing Music, credits: "Have Thine Own Way, Lord"
If you would like to chat with one of our pastors, including talking more about belief in God, becoming a Christian or following Christ, or living as a disciple of Christ, please email us at pastor@disciplesnet.org, or contact us using the contact information on our website, including our community, DisciplesNet City Cafe, found on our website.
Invitation to Giving:
DisciplesNet Church is a not-for-profit church that exists to cross barriers and boundaries to share the Good News of God's redeeming love. We rely on the gifts of our online viewers as we continue to grow and extend our nets around the world.
We also extend the invitation for you to be part of the DisciplesNet ministry by giving a one time gift, or ongoing, including a tithe. Even the smallest of gifts, like the mustard seed, have a way of growing in amazing ways to share God's word and the love of Jesus Christ.
We have a giving page on our website, disciplesnet.org. Our physical address for donations is:
DisciplesNet Church
PO Box 17935
Indianapolis, IN 46217
And emailing address is: giving@disciplesnet.org
God bless you, and thank you for joining us!
Video editing by Deb Phelps, Russ Smith, Susan McNeely
DisciplesNet Church has a WorshipCast License with Christian Copyright Solutions which allow us permission to provide for you the musical arrangements found here on this site.
Questions for this Week:
1. What message was God trying to get across to the captive people of Israel that Jeremiah was to speak to?
2. What might be some of the broken places of your life?
3. How can you see God working to form and build who you are from the broken places?
4. What special abilities and gifts do you have that have been formed from the trials and difficulties of life? (Don't over look those that may seem small or insignificant).
5. Are there areas that you have not given over to the Master, to form and to shape you? Do you have any thoughts about why this might be?