Liturgical Color: Green

Theme: Jesus' healing of the leper - Jesus' insistence that the leper tell no one.

Invitation to Worship
Try this: As pastor and choir process into the sanctuary, touch some of the people, or stop and greet them. If you do not process, without announcing the purpose, come from the chancel and do the same.

Then, welcome people to worship. Along with the phone company, ask them to reach out and touch someone. Remind them to go cautiously; because some may not want to be touched. The handshake is usually more acceptable than any other kind of touch.

Acts of Confession
Consider this: Begin, the human potential movement taught us to touch, a ministry often neglected by the main-line church. The human-potential movement spawned many excesses, unhealthy excesses. Consi…