This month, the Canton Church of the Brethren will be recognizing the contributions of African Americans and their central role in U.S. History. Please enjoy the following audio recording from our service from Sunday, 2/14/21.
THEME: Love Your Enemy
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: Do we really forgive people if we cannot forget? What stories of Jesus are examples of Loving Your Enemy? Why do you think Jesus added “for they know not what they do?”
- Welcoming Words from Pastor Kevin
- Lift Every Voice and Sing, performed by Alecia Keys
- CALL TO WORSHIP
- Ashe (pronounced ah-shay) is a term that will be used in the call to worship each Sunday in February. Ashe is a West African philosophical concept through which the Yoruba of Nigeria conceive the power to make things happen and produce change
- Scripture reading, Proverbs 24:17, Obadiah 1:12
- Oswald Chambers Reading, Partakers of His Suffering
- How You Treat People is Who You Are
- Nelson Mandela story on friendship with his Racist, pro-apartheid prison guard Christo Brand
- Scripture Reading, Romans 12:9-20, 1 Peter 3:9a, 1 Peter 2:23
- Poetry Reading, “Love in the time of coronavirus – Quarantine day #29: Our Emmaus,” by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
- Poetry Reading, “I Dream a World” by Langston Hughes
- Musical Performance by Ed Carper and Baylor Carper, “Love Your Enemy”
- Scripture Reading, Luke 6:27, 31, 35, Matthew 5:38-48, Exodus 23:4-5
- Story Reading by Harold Rose
- I Will Follow Him from the film “Sister Act”
- Benediction, Paraphrase of “For the Healing of the Nations” by Fred Kaan
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