1. How is everyone? Tea at the ready?
2. Our BLM house group reading as our prayer
One: You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place,when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Many: How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
3. Sermon of the late Rev Vicky Gibbs: a guide to receiving the Holy Spirit
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/us/vickey-gibbs-dead-coronavirus.html
Rev. Vickey Gibbs, Activist in a Progressive Church, Dies at 57
Ms. Gibbs used her pulpit in Houston to treat broken parishioners in a broken social world. She died of the coronavirus.
In the last sermon she preached, the Rev. Vickey Gibbs tied together the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, the refusal to wear masks, the minimum wage, slavery, the destruction of Native Americans, Ta-Nehisi Coates, reparations, immigration policy, excessive executive pay and “the desire for power and money.”
It was June 7, Pentecost Sunday, and the 900-seat Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church in Houston, where Ms. Gibbs was associate pastor, was empty because of the pandemic. The congregants were in virtual attendance, watching a video feed at home.
As a nation, she told them, “We have not had our Pentecost moment,” referring to the religious belief that, after Christ’s ascension, the Holy Spirit descended on his disciples to begin Christianity’s mission in the world. Her answer: “Repent, be baptized, seek and give forgiveness, begin to build bridges of reconciliation.”
2. Our BLM house group reading as our prayer
One: You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place,when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Many: How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
3. Sermon of the late Rev Vicky Gibbs: a guide to receiving the Holy Spirit
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/us/vickey-gibbs-dead-coronavirus.html
Rev. Vickey Gibbs, Activist in a Progressive Church, Dies at 57
Ms. Gibbs used her pulpit in Houston to treat broken parishioners in a broken social world. She died of the coronavirus.
In the last sermon she preached, the Rev. Vickey Gibbs tied together the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, the refusal to wear masks, the minimum wage, slavery, the destruction of Native Americans, Ta-Nehisi Coates, reparations, immigration policy, excessive executive pay and “the desire for power and money.”
It was June 7, Pentecost Sunday, and the 900-seat Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church in Houston, where Ms. Gibbs was associate pastor, was empty because of the pandemic. The congregants were in virtual attendance, watching a video feed at home.
As a nation, she told them, “We have not had our Pentecost moment,” referring to the religious belief that, after Christ’s ascension, the Holy Spirit descended on his disciples to begin Christianity’s mission in the world. Her answer: “Repent, be baptized, seek and give forgiveness, begin to build bridges of reconciliation.”
4 Silence is held
5 Prayer and reflection
Quotes taken from the sermon
Let us not be silent, let us not be complicit, let us not be complicit in injustice, let us be bridges over troubles waters.
We pray for our pentecost moment.
Let our hearts be open to the possibility of unity, of compassion, of transformation by the Holy Spirit. Let us be full heirs of God’s dominion.
We pray for our pentecost moment.
‘To hell with your money’. Let us not be tempted by power or money.
We pray for our pentecost moment.
We name people or situations that we want us all to pray for.
We pray for our pentecost moment.
Holy notices: please, help me do this week by week – will you read, pray, dance and sing?
6. Final song
5 Prayer and reflection
Quotes taken from the sermon
Let us not be silent, let us not be complicit, let us not be complicit in injustice, let us be bridges over troubles waters.
We pray for our pentecost moment.
Let our hearts be open to the possibility of unity, of compassion, of transformation by the Holy Spirit. Let us be full heirs of God’s dominion.
We pray for our pentecost moment.
‘To hell with your money’. Let us not be tempted by power or money.
We pray for our pentecost moment.
We name people or situations that we want us all to pray for.
We pray for our pentecost moment.
Holy notices: please, help me do this week by week – will you read, pray, dance and sing?
6. Final song
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