Liturgical Color: Green

Gospel: John 1:29-41

Theme: Following Jesus' baptism, he calls Peter and Andrew; the significance of the call.

Pastoral Invitation to the Celebration
One pastor did this: He began worship by saying, "We have come today, not to escape the world and our responsibility to the world, but, rather, we have come to find out what in the world God has in mind for us in the world."

We wait, both fearfully and expectantly, for God's leading, as we celebrate the Presence and Power of the one who called us, and calls us daily from death to life.

You may want to use the following printed response:

Pastor: Fellow adventurers in the new life to which Christ has called you, I have exciting, yet scary, news! Christ died for us that we might know that God loves us and forgives u…