Our inclusive language liturgies set the structure and theme of Sunday morning worship. All liturgies are written by the Celebration Circle Mission Group.
Feel free to use what is helpful from these liturgies. We only ask that when substantial portions are abstracted or used in a written work, please credit Seekers Church and cite the URL.
Easter 2011 – Becoming the Body
REFLECTION
The story begins when God puts on flesh and comes to walk among us. It ends, or perhaps it just begins again, when God’s spirit is uncaged by death, when the one who walked among us dies an individual and is born again as a community.
Rob Eller-Isaacs (from a sermon)
Quoted in inward/outward, April 9, 2007
Lent 2011 – Where Will Our Help Come From?
REFLECTION
If you listen
not to the pages or preachers
but to the smallest flower
growing from a crack in your heart,
you will hear a great song
moving across a wide ocean…
connecting the islands
of the universe together…
you will feel it
touching you…
embracing you
with light.
John Squadra, This Ecstasy
quoted in inward/outward July 28, 2008
Epiphany 2011 – Foolish Hope
REFLECTION
If the world is sane, then Jesus is mad as a hatter…The world says, Law and order, and Jesus says, Love. The world says, Get, and Jesus says, Give. In terms of the world’s sanity, Jesus is crazy as a coot, and anybody who thinks we can follow him without being a little crazy too is laboring less under a cross than under a delusion.
Frederick Buechner, Listening to Your Life
Quoted in inward/outward April 9, 2009
Advent 2010 – Looking for the Good News
REFLECTION
And when we learn to read
the landscape of our fears,
and when we come to know
the terrain of every sorrow,
then will we turn
our fences into bridges
and our borders
into paths of peace.
Jan Richardson, Night Visions: Searching the Shadows of Advent and Christmas, Pilgrim Press, page 47.
Jubilee 2010 – How Do I Live Here?
REFLECTION
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it. … What I want is so simple: … Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. … Right now I’m living in that hope, running down its hallways and touching the walls on both sides. I can’t tell you how good it feels.
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams. Quoted in Inward/Outward January 9, 2008.