Liturgical Color: Purple/Blue

Gospel: Matthew 11:2-11

Theme: Wonder - Are you he who is to come, or shall we look for another? How can we recapture our wonder?

Declaration of our Joyful Expectation
One congregation used this:
Pastor: Listen! (pause) Listen! (pause) Listen! Do you hear God?
Ministers: We do hear God.
Pastor: (pause) How do you hear God?
Ministers: In the plaintive crys, in the joyous shouts, in the pain and the pleasures of the world.
Pastor: (pause) I invite us to become even more sensitive as we celebrate the Presence and Vower of God in the world.
Ministers: Indeed we shall. Amen

Act of Recognizing our Humanness and Receiving New Life
One pastor did this: He introduced the confession with this statement: "To be out of love is to be in Hell." He asked the people to co…