Sunday 19 May 2019 – 11h00
Welcome to the Scots Kirk Paris
If you are visiting, know that you are welcome and please take the greetings of the Scots Kirk Paris back home. If you are settling in Paris, may you find a home here. Please sign the “visitor’s book” on the entrance table and join us for refreshments after the service. Mobile phone switched off…?
Today’s service will be led by Alisdair Gould and a team.
Call to worship
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Counsellor, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Hymn 185 Come children join and sing
1. Come, children, join and sing
alleluia! amen!
loud praise to Christ our king,
alleluia! amen!
let all, with heart and voice,
before his throne rejoice;
praise is his gracious choice:
alleluia! amen!
2. Come, lift your hearts on high,
alleluia! amen!
let praises fill the sky;
alleluia! amen!
he is our guide and friend,
on him we can depend;
his love shall never end:
alleluia! amen!
3. Sing praises loud and long; alleluia! amen!
life shall not end the song; alleluia! amen!
on heaven's blissful shore his goodness we'll adore,
singing for evermore, alleluia! amen!
Children's Talk.
Lucky Dip. Making our own choices and having choices explained.
Children’s song: Junior Praise 101
I may never fly like superman, (Arms up) Climb like spider man, (mime climb)
Bend like banana man. (bend) Indian Jones is not the kind of man I am, (whip)
But I'm in the Lords army, Yes sir! (salute) I'm in the Lord's Army, (yes, sir!) (salute)
I'm in the Lord's Army, (yes, sir!) (salute)
I may never fly like superman, (Arms up) Climb like spider man, (mime climb)
Bend like banana man. (bend) Indian Jones is not the kind of man I am, (whip)
But I'm in the Lords army, Yes sir! (salute)
Prayer of Confession and Supplication
Hymn 528 Make me a channel of your peace
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Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there is hatred let me bring your love. Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord and where there's doubt, true faith in you. Oh, Master grant that I may never seek so much to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love with all my soul. |
Make me a channel of your peace
Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope where there is darkness, only light and where there's sadness, ever joy. Oh, Master grant that I may never seek so much to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love with all my soul. |
Make me a channel of your peace
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
in giving to all men that we receive
and in dying that we're born to eternal life.
Reading (Carleton Horner)
John 14:1-22
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. “If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”
Matthew 6:24
You can't serve both God and Mammon. ... the one and love the other, or he will hold
to the one and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.
Sermon
1 - But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve.
2 - Brethren, I do not count myself to have be apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
3 -Jesus Himself was about thirty years old when He began His ministry.
4 - On whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptize with the Holy Ghost
5- Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, “Look at us!” So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them.
6- Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
Prayer
Hymn 533 Will you come and follow me
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
in giving to all men that we receive
and in dying that we're born to eternal life.
Reading (Carleton Horner)
John 14:1-22
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. “If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”
Matthew 6:24
You can't serve both God and Mammon. ... the one and love the other, or he will hold
to the one and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.
Sermon
1 - But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve.
2 - Brethren, I do not count myself to have be apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
3 -Jesus Himself was about thirty years old when He began His ministry.
4 - On whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptize with the Holy Ghost
5- Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, “Look at us!” So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them.
6- Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
Prayer
Hymn 533 Will you come and follow me
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1. Will you come and follow me
if I but call your name? Will you go where you don't know and never be the same? Will you let my love be shown, will you let my name be known, will you let my life be grown, in you and you in me? 2. Will you leave yourself behind if I but call your name? Will you care for cruel and kind and never be the same? Will you risk the hostile stare should your life attract or scare? Will you let me answer prayer in you and you in me? |
3. Will you let the blinded see
if I but call your name? Will you set the prisoners free and never be the same? Will you kiss the leper clean, and do such as this unseen, and admit to what I mean in you and you in me? 4. Will you love the 'you' you hide if I but call your name? Will you quell the fear inside and never be the same? Will you use the faith you've found to reshape the world around, through my sight and touch and sound in you and you in me? |
5. Lord, your summons echoes true when you but call my name.
Let me turn and follow you and never be the same.
In your company I'll go where your love and footsteps show.
Thus I'll move and live and grow in you and you in me.
Offering
Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession
Welcome and Intimations
Hymn 501. Take this moment
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1. Take this moment, sign, and space;
take my friends around; here among us make the place where your love is found. 2. Take the time to call my name, take the time to mend who I am and what I've been, all I've failed to tend. |
3. Take the tiredness of my days,
take my past regret, letting your forgiveness touch all I can’t forget. 4. Take the little child in me, scared of growing old; help me here to find 1 my made in Christ’ own mould. |
5. Take my talents, take my skills
Take what’s yet to be;
Let my life be yours, and yet,
Let it still me me.
Benediction
Take my talents, take my skills
Take what’s yet to be;
Let my life be yours, and yet,
Let it still be me.
Ubi caritas
Ubi caritas et amor
Ubi caritas Deus ibi est
où est l’amour - et charité
où est l’amour - Dieu lui-même est là
Where there is love, selfless love
where there is love, there is God our Lord
INTIMATIONS
Derek Bonin-Bree has been called to be an elder. The induction date will be set soon.
Board Meeting on Tuesday at 17h30 in the church hall.
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We have another planning meeting on Tuesday 4 June at 18h30. This is an OPEN meeting meaning ALL are invited to come and think together.
A light vegetarian pasta meal will be served from 18h00 -18h30.
Please “sign up” for the meeting by telling any of the Elders.
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The Local Church Review will be held on the weekend of 15-17 June.
Contact
17 rue Bayard, 75008 Paris
Minister: Rev Jan Steyn
Tel. 01 48 78 47 94
Session clerk: Dorothy Mure
Pianist: Paul Snelgrove
e-mail: scotskirkparis@orange.fr
Website: www.scotskirkparis.com
Facebook page: ScotsKirkParis
Amis: https://amisskp.wixsite.com/amisskp
Take what’s yet to be;
Let my life be yours, and yet,
Let it still me me.
Benediction
Take my talents, take my skills
Take what’s yet to be;
Let my life be yours, and yet,
Let it still be me.
Ubi caritas
Ubi caritas et amor
Ubi caritas Deus ibi est
où est l’amour - et charité
où est l’amour - Dieu lui-même est là
Where there is love, selfless love
where there is love, there is God our Lord
INTIMATIONS
Derek Bonin-Bree has been called to be an elder. The induction date will be set soon.
Board Meeting on Tuesday at 17h30 in the church hall.
-
We have another planning meeting on Tuesday 4 June at 18h30. This is an OPEN meeting meaning ALL are invited to come and think together.
A light vegetarian pasta meal will be served from 18h00 -18h30.
Please “sign up” for the meeting by telling any of the Elders.
–
The Local Church Review will be held on the weekend of 15-17 June.
Contact
17 rue Bayard, 75008 Paris
Minister: Rev Jan Steyn
Tel. 01 48 78 47 94
Session clerk: Dorothy Mure
Pianist: Paul Snelgrove
e-mail: scotskirkparis@orange.fr
Website: www.scotskirkparis.com
Facebook page: ScotsKirkParis
Amis: https://amisskp.wixsite.com/amisskp
Out of the Box Feedback
On Tuesday 7 May 2019 an open meeting was held to reflect together on all the items from the Thinking out of the Box ideas.
Present: Fabienne Bonin-Bree, Derek Bonin-Bree, Antoinette Hudson, Andrew Craig, Elizabeth Sevo, Louise Anderson, Dorothy Nitsche, Merya Amekporfor, Jim Amekforpor and Jan Steyn
Format of the meeting.
After an introduction and know-your-neighbour round*, we first had a discussion on our overall approach and vision.
We have a 5-point plan which serves as guidance for our activities and planning. This is not set in stone but is meant to helpful in planning and looking ahead.
These 5 points are:
1. We focus on our own lives and spiritual growth
2. in order to be a congregation of God’s Presence
3. for the sake of the city where we live
4. and for the sake of the world.
5. All this for the Glory of God alone
On Tuesday 7 May 2019 an open meeting was held to reflect together on all the items from the Thinking out of the Box ideas.
Present: Fabienne Bonin-Bree, Derek Bonin-Bree, Antoinette Hudson, Andrew Craig, Elizabeth Sevo, Louise Anderson, Dorothy Nitsche, Merya Amekporfor, Jim Amekforpor and Jan Steyn
Format of the meeting.
After an introduction and know-your-neighbour round*, we first had a discussion on our overall approach and vision.
We have a 5-point plan which serves as guidance for our activities and planning. This is not set in stone but is meant to helpful in planning and looking ahead.
These 5 points are:
1. We focus on our own lives and spiritual growth
2. in order to be a congregation of God’s Presence
3. for the sake of the city where we live
4. and for the sake of the world.
5. All this for the Glory of God alone
As emblem I have proposed the Eiffel Tower and its 5 points.
This 5-point plan could help us to focus and plan even more actively towards the future.
The meeting discussed these 5 points and agreed that “5” be our guiding principle.
We also agreed that there is a “Process” involved. “1” is our primary focus. The individual, her/his spiritual well-being, growth and development is the basis for promoting and supporting the other four points.
This 5-point plan could help us to focus and plan even more actively towards the future.
The meeting discussed these 5 points and agreed that “5” be our guiding principle.
We also agreed that there is a “Process” involved. “1” is our primary focus. The individual, her/his spiritual well-being, growth and development is the basis for promoting and supporting the other four points.
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Develop Individuals |
Identify Teams; Bible Reading; Prayer; Tea/Coffee; Welcoming |
Language Classes |
Communication |
Discern Talents |
Build Teams |
Student Contact Person |
Amis |
Discern Interest |
Opportunities for young people e.g. Taizé, Paris Week |
'Invite a Friend' Sunday |
Website |
Introduce Elders |
Prayer Meetings |
Contacts with other Churches |
Podcast |
Opportunity for testimonials |
Develop new & Children songs |
Support 'Missionaries' |
Events (Convention) |
Encourage Feedback |
Retreats |
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Individual Family Support- |
Sunday School Teachers |
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Socials: Soup Sundays, Picnics, Ceilidhs |
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Sermon Series |
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Develop Pastoral Support |
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Bible Study Sessions |
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A theme for the Year |
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Regular planning meetings/days |
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Making/Growing & Supporting Disciples
to stand TALL and let their Light Shine