Liturgical Color: White

Theme: Friendship with God

Invitation to Worship
Consider these ideas:

(1) Print at the beginning of the order of worship these words: "The reason that dogs have so many friends is that they wag their tails instead of their tongues."

(2) Pastor says: True friendship is based upon God's love for and forgiveness of us, and our willingness to accept God's unconditional gift to us, and to share God's unconditional gift with others.

(3) Develop a litany around the Scripture for the day, between pastor, choir, congregation.

The Act of Confession
Suggestion: Print these words by D. H. Lawrence under the Act of Recognizing our Humanness: "Those who go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness; and the loveless never find love; only the loving find l…