[LITURGY] For Those Who Feel Overlooked

Zach: Good morning South Bend City Church family – how are you? How y’all doing? The sun is out, I need something. Good. Now listen, for those of y’all that don’t know me, I’m Zach, I serve on the pastoral staff here at South Bend City Church and if it’s your first time here, I’m so glad that you are here today. Right now we’re going to begin our gathering, so if you’re able, I want to invite you all to stand and join us.

You Say by Lauren Daigle
Verse 1
I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I’m not enough
Every single lie that tells me I will never measure up
Am I more than just the sum of every high and every low
Remind me once again just who I am because I need to know

Chorus
You say I am loved when I can’t feel a thing
You say I am strong when I think I am weak
And you say I am held when I am falling short
And when I don’t belong, oh You say I am Yours
And I believe
Oh, I believe
What You say of me
I believe

Verse 2
The only thing that matters now is everything You think of me
In You I find my worth, in You I find my identity

Chorus

Verse 3
Taking all I have, and now I’m laying it at Your feet
You have every failure, God, You have every victory

Chorus

The Kingdom is Yours by Common Hymnal
Verse 1
Blessed are the ones who do not bury
All the broken pieces of their heart
Blessed are the tears of all the wea – ry
Pouring like a sky of falling stars

Verse 2
Blessed are the wounded ones in mourning
Brave enough to show the Lord their scars
Blessed are the hurts that are not hidden
Open to the healing touch of God

Chorus
The kingdom is yours
The kingdom is yours
Hold on a little more this is not the end
Hope is in the Lord keep your eyes on Him

Verse 3
Blessed are the ones who walk in kindness
Even in the face of great abuse
Blessed are the deeds that go unnoticed
Serving with unguarded gratitude

Verse 4
Blessed are the ones who fight for justice
Longing for the coming day of peace
Blessed is the soul that thirsts for righteousness
Welcoming the last the lost the least

Chorus

Verse 5
Blessed are the ones who suffer violence
And still have strength to love their enemies
Blessed is the faith of those who persevere
Thought they fall they’ll never know defeat

Chorus

Tag
Hold on a little more this is not the end
Hope is in the Lord keep your eyes on Him

Prayers of the People by Jill Rauh, Education for Justice
We are all equal as human beings

Sister and brother
Employer and employee
Chief officer and manual laborer
Equally loved before God.

Yet, our system discriminates based on
Education
Abilities
Race
Gender
Sexual orientation
Even luck

And many of God’s children are placed into a hierarchy of inequality and discomfort.

We are called to stretch out our arms between the tiny, exclusive tip and the broad platform of the masses. To form a bridge, to create a way

For those made unequal to come together as one in equality, in human dignity.

Loving God, Creator of dignity and all that lives, Help us be bridges. Help us cry out for respect and value for all When society forgets that at in our most basic nature, We are all God’s children. Amen.

Brother by The Brilliance
Verse (x2)
When I look into the face
Of my enemy
I see my brother
I see my brother

Intro

Verse (x2)

Refrain
Forgiveness is the garment of our courage
The power to make the peace we long to know
Open up our eyes
To see the wounds that bind all of humankind
May our shuttered hearts
Greet the dawn of life with charity and love

Verse 2 (x2)
When I look into the face
Of my enemy
I see my brother
I see my brother
When I look into the face
Of my enemy
I see my sister
I see my sister
When I look into the face
Of my enemy
I see my father
I see my father
When I look into the face
Of my enemy
I see my mother
I see my mother