Worship 08/01

Call To Worship

L: If God is for us, who is against us? A: He who gave us his son,

now gives us the Spirit in power! L: The Holy One is in our midst: A: equipping us for life in the service of Christ. L: In Christ we are more than conquerors, A: for nothing in creation can separate us from the love of God! L: May the all surpassing grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. A: And the unshakable love of God be with you. L: The joyous communion of the Holy Spirit be with you. A: And also with you!

Scripture

Romans 8:35–39 NRSV

35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.