Liturgical Color: Green

Theme: Calling the disciples to a special ministry.

Invitation to the Celebration
Pastor: We have come, maybe reluctantly, maybe expectantly, because the living God has invited us to come.
People: We have come, with reluctance and expectation, to affirm who we are, whose we are, what we do, where we go, in the power of the world's Savior.
Pastor: We affirm our life, corporate and personal, in the midst of life's awesomeness, for the sake of the world, for which the Savior was born.
People: Be it so! Amen!

The Act of Confession
Suggestion: Begin the act with a statement of C. S. Lewis. "Most of us are not following Christ vividly enough to constitute a threat either to the devil or to the status quo." Give the people time to consider that statement. Then, follow w…