Liturgical Color: Blue/Purple

Theme: Preparation - Getting ready for the world's savior.

Meditation
1. Beginning: How do you get ready for the coming of the world's savior into your life each day?

2. Ending: What will you do this week to ready yourself for the coming of the world's savior into your life, into the life of your neighbor?

Invitation to Worship
Suggestion: God has prepared for us long before we prepared for God. In that reality, we come today. We're here because God kept inviting us until we said "yes!"

You may want to continue with this litany:

Pastor: God took a long time preparing for the coming of the Messiah. And now, God invites us to prepare for the coming of the Messiah once again, and always - for our sake, and the world's.
Ministers: We have prepared. We do pre…