Welcome to Mayflower

1. Welcome to Mayflower Open to God Open to All

2. Lenten Liturgy We are not the first to journey to Jerusalem; the people of Israel believed they were closest to God there. From near and far, God’s people gathered to celebrate God’s goodness on the holy mountain.

3. Lenten Liturgy We are pilgrims on a journey. We are travellers on the road. Jesus made the journey to Jerusalem many times. As a child and a teen, he entered the city with his parents.

4. Lenten Liturgy Now he has set his face toward Jerusalem again, knowing this time will be different. We are pilgrims on a journey. We are travellers on the road.

5. Lenten Liturgy Jesus’ last journey to Jerusalem is somber. He has no illusions about the outcome. Still, he marches on, doing God’s will.

6. Lenten Liturgy We are pilgrims on a journey. We are travellers on the road. Unison prayer: God of light, we want to follow in Jesus’ footsteps, but we are afraid.

7. Lenten Liturgy We would rather avoid the pain and darkness along the way. Give us courage to walk these difficult steps. Prepare us to be changed on the road. Amen.

8. Gathering words

9. Singing the Faith StF – 53How Shall I sing that majesty

10. How shall I sing that majesty which angels do admire? Let dust in dust and silence lie; sing, sing, ye heavenly choir. Thousands of thousands stand around thy throne, O God most high; ten thousand times ten thousand sound thy praise; but who am I?

11. Thy brightness unto them appears, whilst I thy footsteps trace; a sound of God comes to my ears, but they behold thy face. They sing because thou art their sun; Lord, send a beam on me; for where heaven is but once begun there alleluias be.

12. How great a being, Lord, is thine, which doth all beings keep! Thy knowledge is the only line to sound so vast a deep. Thou art a sea without a shore, a sun without a sphere; thy time is now and evermore, thy place is everywhere.

13. Prayers of adoration, praise and confession

14. Singing the Faith 830 Psalm 121

15. Psalm 121 1 I lift up my eyes to the hills, from where is my help to come? 2 My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

16. 3 He will not suffer your foot to stumble; he who watches over you will not sleep. 4 Behold, he who keeps watch over Israel, shall neither slumber nor sleep.

17. 5 The Lord himself watches over you; the Lord is your shade at your right hand, 6 So that the sun shall not strike you by day, neither the moon by night.

18. 7 The Lord shall keep you from all evil; it is he who shall keep your soul. 8 The Lord shall keep watch over your going out and your coming in, from this time forth for evermore. From Common Worship

19. Singing the Faith 443 Come Let Us Sing of a Wonderful Love

20. Jesus, the Saviour, this gospel to tell, joyfully came; came with the helpless and hopeless to dwell, sharing their sorrow and shame; seeking the lost, saving, redeeming at measureless cost.

21. Jesus, the Saviour, this gospel to tell, joyfully came; came with the helpless and hopeless to dwell, sharing their sorrow and shame; seeking the lost, saving, redeeming at measureless cost.

22. Jesus is seeking the wanderers yet; why do they roam? Love only waits to forgive and forget; home, weary wanderer, home! Wonderful love dwells in the heart of the Father above.

23. Come to my heart, O thou wonderful love, come and abide, lifting my life, till it rises above envy and falsehood and pride; seeking to be lowly and humble, a learner of thee. Robert Walmsley (1831-1905)

24. Good News Bible Genesis 12 : 1 – 4a

25. 1 The LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you. God’s call to Abram

26. 2 I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing. God’s call to Abram

27. 3 I will bless those who bless you, But I will curse those who curse you. And through you I will bless all the nations.” God’s call to Abram

28. 4 When Abram was 75 years old, he started out from Haran, as the LORD had told him to do God’s call to Abram

30. Good News Bible John 3: 1 - 17

31. 1 There was a Jewish leader named Nicodemus, who belonged to the party of the Pharisees. Jesus and Nicodemus

32. 2 One night he went to Jesus and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent by God. No one could perform the miracles you are doing unless God were with him.” Jesus and Nicodemus

33. 3 Jesus answered, “I am telling you the truth: no one can see the Kingdom of God without being born again.”4 “How can a grown man be born again?” Nicodemus asked. “He certainly cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time!” Jesus and Nicodemus

34. 5 “I am telling you the truth,” replied Jesus. “No one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.6 A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the Spirit. Jesus and Nicodemus

35. 7 Do not be surprised because I tell you that you must all be born again.8 The wind blows wherever it wishes; you hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. It is like that with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Jesus and Nicodemus

36. 9 “How can this be?” asked Nicodemus.10 Jesus answered, “You are a great teacher in Israel, and you don't know this? Jesus and Nicodemus

37. 11 I am telling you the truth: we speak of what we know and report what we have seen, yet none of you is willing to accept our message. Jesus and Nicodemus

38. 12 You do not believe me when I tell you about the things of this world; how will you ever believe me, then, when I tell you about the things of heaven?13 And no one has ever gone up to heaven except the Son of Man, who came down from heaven.” Jesus and Nicodemus

39. 14 As Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the desert, in the same way the Son of Man must be lifted up,15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. Jesus and Nicodemus

40. 16 For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.17 For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its saviour. Jesus and Nicodemus

42. Singing the Faith 501 Help us, O Lord, to learn

43. Help us, O Lord, to learn the truths your word imparts, to study that your laws may be inscribed upon our hearts.

44. Help us, O Lord, to live the faith which we proclaim, that all our thoughts and words and deeds may glorify your name.

45. Help us, O Lord, to teach the beauty of your ways, that all who seek may find the Christ, and make a life of praise. William Watkins Reid (b. 1923)

46. Sermon Presented by Geoff Warrener

47. I am the Teacher Presented by Gill Bumphrey Point 1 Point 2 Point 3

48. Singing the Faith 668 Teach me, my God and King

49. Teach me, my God and King, in all things thee to see, and what I do in anything, to do it as for thee.

50. For those who look on glass on it may stay the eye; or if it pleases, through it pass, and then the heaven espy.