Woship Resources 2008-2009 — Year B: Be a Sanctuary of Christ's Peace
Let God Find You
A Service of Baptism
Praise Songs
“Lord, I Lift Your Name on High” NS 33
“Awesome God” NS 4
“For All the Saints” HS 480
Welcome
*Hymn: “My Lord, I Know That All My Life” HS 457
*Invocation
Lord of our lives, loves, and desires, please help us to center our
hearts on you today. Fill us with the joy you have seeing another one of
your children come home. Invite us into your sanctuary and lead our praise.
May your kingdom come and your will be done in us as we worship this day.
Help us to love you more dearly. In the name of Jesus, amen.
Scripture Meditation: Matthew 3:13–17
Reading
Get Lost, Be Found
Travel the known path, pilgrim;
however, if you do,
you will see nothing new
you will see nothing at all—
except your small
destination.
Journey the mysterious
unknown, curious
you’ll be led to pause
by the journey itself as it draws
you in.
There you will know, not where
you go, but how you flow
from one moment to another.
This, I vow, will allow
you the time
to ponder the pond, spy the sparrow,
heed the road—so wide, so narrow.
In the here and the now, in the near and the far,
get lost, then be found where you are.
—Linda Mountenay
*Hymn: “I Sought the Lord” HS 213
Charge to the Candidate(s)
The charge should refer to God’s unrelenting grace and the preciousness
of each and every person in God’s sight. No matter what a person has done in
the past or what choices they have made, God always loves, forgives, and
receives each one. Baptism is the symbol of God’s never-ending claim on each
person.
Congregation Prayer and Share
Congregation members will be asked to offer prayers for the candidate.
They might ask that the candidate learn to use their weakness for God’s
glory through the gift of repentance. The sharing could include brief
statements of support for the candidate.
*Hymn: “Lord Jesus, of You I Will Sing” SP 31
OR “Companions on the Journey” NS 7
Responsive Scripture Reading
Leader: Yea, blessed is this people who are willing to bear my name; for
in my name shall they be called; and they are mine.
People: And they that will hear my voice shall be my sheep; and they
shall you receive into the church; and they will I also receive.
Leader: For, behold, this is my church: whoever is baptized shall be
baptized unto repentance.
Males: For it is I that takes upon me the sins of the world;
Females: …for it is I that created them;
Leader: …and it is I that grants unto him that believes in the end, a
place at my right hand.
People: For behold, in my name are they called.
—Mosiah 11:125–132 adapted
Baptism of the Candidate(s)
Congratulations to the Candidate(s)
*Closing Hymn: “Sometimes a Light Surprises” HS 154
OR “Christ for the World We Sing” HS 478
*Sending Forth
You are my friends if you do what I command you…. You did not choose me
but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that
will last.—John 15:14, 16
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