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Sunday services are conducted by a First and Second Reader and include music, hymns, prayer, and readings from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural selections are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Mimi Oka, First Reader
Don Wallingford, Second Reader
Subject: DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT
Prelude
D. Eric Huenneke, Guest Organist
Chorale Prelude by Johann Sebastian Bach
If thou but let God guide thee, BWV 647
The Lone, Wild Bird by Wilbur Held
Hymn 432
Josette Flamand, incl. Eng. tr., words
Gabriel Fauré; adapt. and arr. CSPS, music
Above all earthly gain,
I long to hear and know You,
Eternal Mind,
To be Your loving child,
To find the liberty
That You alone provide.
When, in humility,
I feel Your presence near me,
Your peace divine,
Hope leads me safe ashore;
I know Your love will guard
And guide me evermore.
Dear Love, rule out the fears
From all who flee oppression;
Dry up their tears,
Our Father-Mother God!
Your Word establishes
The rule of harmony;
Your goodness is revealed
And here for all to see.
English translation, Music arrangement © 2016 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Scriptural Selection
Heb. 1:1–3; 2:1, 9–13 we; 3:1, 6 whose, 14
Prayer
Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy
(Read in context)
Hymn 568
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Dimasa Piatu, music
Saw ye my Saviour? Heard ye the glad sound?
Felt ye the power of the Word?
’Twas the Truth that made us free,
And was found by you and me
In the life and the love of our Lord.
Mourner, it calls you,—“Come to my bosom,
Love wipes your tears all away,
And will lift the shade of gloom,
And for you make radiant room
Midst the glories of one endless day.”
Sinner, it calls you,—“Come to this fountain,
Cleanse the foul senses within;
’Tis the Spirit that makes pure,
That exalts thee, and will cure
All thy sorrow and sickness and sin.”
Strongest deliverer, friend of the friendless,
Life of all being divine:
Thou the Christ, and not the creed;
Thou the Truth in thought and deed;
Thou the water, the bread, and the wine.
Music © 2016 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Notices
Solo
Kendra Fogg, Soloist of The Mother Church
I and My Father Are One
Like a river that runs to the ocean,
like a ray reaching out from the sun,
like the leaf and the vine, the grape and the wine,
I and my Father are one.
And may each of us claim it as truly
as the man who we heard was His son,
and may each of us know in the depths of his soul,
I and my Father are one.
One in beauty, one in truth.
one in the asking, one in the proof,
one in time and one in space,
one in the goodness that flows from His grace.
Though our fears may estrange and divide us,
may we seek to dissolve them through love.
We are sister and brother, each bound to the other
and one with our Father above.
One in purpose, one in power,
one in the moment, one with a flower,
one in kindness, one in peace,
one in the Mind that foresees our release.
Like a seedling that grows in the forest,
like the light shining forth from the sun,
like a branch and the tree, a drop and the sea,
a hymn and the choir, a flame and the fire,
I and my Father are one.
Music by Mindy Jostyn
Lyrics by Mindy Jostyn and Jacob Brackman
© 2005 Say No More Publishing (BMI) & Maya Productions Ltd. (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2011 - Arrangement by Margaret Dorn
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Isaiah 30:21 your
. . . your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.
The Golden Text is from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
Responsive Reading:
Deuteronomy 4:35, 36 (to ;), 39; 30:11, 12, 14, 20 (to ;)
Isaiah 30:15 (to .), 29
Deut. 4:35 To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord Himself is God; there is none other besides Him.
36 Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you;
39 Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
30:11 For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off.
12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?”
14 But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
20 that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days;
Isa. 30:15 For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: “In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”
29 You shall have a song As in the night when a holy festival is kept, And gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, To come into the mountain of the Lord, To the Mighty One of Israel.
The Responsive Reading is from the New King James Version®.
The Bible Lesson-Sermon, the Explanatory Note, Golden Text and Responsive Reading are from the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson, a publication copyrighted by the Christian Science Publishing Society.
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Flute Solo by Thomas Arne
Hymn 386
Isaac Watts, adapted, words
From a Gregorian Chant, music
When Jesus our great Master came
To teach us in his Father’s name,
In every act, in every thought,
He lived the precepts which he taught.
So let our lips and lives express
The holy gospel we profess;
So let our works and virtues shine,
To prove the doctrine all divine.
Thus shall we best proclaim abroad,
The honors of our Saviour, God,
When His salvation reigns within,
And grace subdues the claim of sin.
Scientific Statement of Being
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p.468, line 8
Correlative Scripture
I John 3:1-3
Benediction
Rev. 22:21
Postlude
Suite for Organ by Robert J. Powell
Finale: Allegretto and Allegro
Copyright.
The Golden Text for "Doctrine of Atonement" is from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, and 1971 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The Responsive Reading is from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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