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March 19, 2017

March 19, 2017. Welcome to OPC. Chimes Welcome and Announcements Greeting Each Other Ringing of the Bell. Prelude Lighting of the candles Introit “Oh Lord, Open Thou Our Eyes”. *CALL TO WORSHIP AND INVOCATION L: Gracious Lord, we ask that you meet us here today.

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March 19, 2017

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  1. March 19, 2017 Welcome to OPC

  2. Chimes Welcome and Announcements Greeting Each Other Ringing of the Bell

  3. Prelude Lighting of the candles Introit “Oh Lord, Open Thou Our Eyes”

  4. *CALL TO WORSHIP AND INVOCATION L: Gracious Lord, we ask that you meet us here today. P: Satisfying Lord, we come thirsty for your presence.

  5. L: We come with a thirst for your living water. P: Fill us, quench our thirst, encourage us, comfort us.

  6. L: Please bless our community as we come together in worship. P: Guide our prayers this day, and our hearts.

  7. L: Let your love encourage each of us this hour. P: Help us trust you. Help us have faith in you alone.

  8. L: Sisters and brothers, let us worship our God in spirit and truth. P: Let us worship God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength.

  9. *HYMN “Here I Am to Worship” YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoxopsRSfdU)

  10. *PRAYER OF CONFESSION (unison) Patient and ever-faithful God, we come to you this morning confessing that we can be a grumpy and unsatisfying people.

  11. When things are not perfect in our eyes, we murmur and complain, and grumble and doubt. We lose hope in the people around us, and, even worse, we lose hope in you.

  12. We challenge instead of accept. We put you to the test rather than trust your caring love. Forgive our doubts and complaining. Forgive our loss of hope.

  13. Let your healing, life-giving waters pour over us and restore our souls. Amen. (silence is observed for reflection and prayer)

  14. *ASSURANCE OF PARDON L: Friends, hear the Good News: In the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we learn that God’s love has no bounds. In Christ we are forgiven, and are empowered to begin anew. Friends,

  15. believe the Good News of the Gospel. P: In Jesus Christ we are forgiven. Amen.

  16. CHOIR ANTHEM“How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place”

  17. Time with Young Christians

  18. PROCLAIMING THE WORD SCRIPTURE READING: Exodus 17:1-7

  19. From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. The peoplequarreled with Moses, and said,

  20. ‘Give us water to drink.’ Moses said to them, ‘Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?’ But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said,

  21. ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?’ So Moses cried out to the Lord, ‘What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.’The Lord saidto Moses,

  22. ‘Go on ahead of the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb.

  23. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink.’ Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled andtested the Lord,

  24. saying, ‘Is the Lord among us or not?’

  25. SCRIPTURE READING: John 4 (entire chapter)

  26. Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, ‘Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John’ – although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized – he left Judea and startedback to Galilee.

  27. But he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired outby his journey,

  28. was sitting by the well. It was about noon. A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, ‘Give me a drink.’ (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.)

  29. The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?’ (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, ‘If you knew thegift of God, andwho it is that is

  30. saying to you “Give me a drink”, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.’ The woman said to him, ‘Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?

  31. Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?’ Jesus said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, butthose who drinkof the water that

  32. I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.’ The woman said to him, ‘Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty orhave to keepcoming here to

  33. draw water.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Go, call your husband, and come back.’ The woman answered him, ‘I have no husband.’ Jesus said to her, ‘You are right in saying, “I have no husband”; for you have hadfive husbands,

  34. and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!’ The woman said to him, ‘Sir, I see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you say that theplace wherepeople must

  35. worship is in Jerusalem.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know;we worship whatwe know, for

  36. salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. God is spirit, and those whoworship him

  37. must worship in spirit and truth.’ The woman said to him, ‘I know that Messiah is coming’ (who is called Christ). ‘When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I am he, the one whois speaking to you.’

  38. Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, ‘What do you want?’ or, ‘Why are you speaking with her?’ The woman left her water-jar andwent back tothe city.

  39. She said to the people, ‘Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?’ They left the city and were on their way to him.

  40. Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, ‘Rabbi, eat something.’ But he said to them, ‘I have food to eat that you do not know about.’ So the disciples said to one another,

  41. ‘Surely no one has brought himsomething to eat?’ Jesus said to them, ‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. Do you not say, “Four months more, then comes the harvest”? But Itell you, look

  42. around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the sayingholds true,

  43. “One sows and another reaps.” I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.’ Many Samaritans from that city believed in himbecause of thewoman’s

  44. testimony, ‘He told me everything I have ever done.’ So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there for two days. And many more believed becauseof his word.

  45. They said to the woman, ‘It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.’ When the two dayswere over, hewent from that

  46. place to Galilee (for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in the prophet’s own country). When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen allthat he had donein Jerusalem at

  47. at the festival; for they too had gone to the festival. Then he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had changed the water into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Capernaum.

  48. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Then Jesus said to him, ‘Unless you see signs andwonders you willnot believe.’

  49. The official said to him, ‘Sir, come down before my little boy dies.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Go; your son will live.’ The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way. As he was going down,

  50. his slaves met him and told him that his child was alive. So he asked them the hour when he began to recover, and they said to him, ‘Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him.’ The father realizedthat this was thehour when

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