Christmas Musicals for Church
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14 PRAYER (optional) w O nl y God is seeking us. God is speaking to us. God is reaching out to us through the life of His Son, Jesus. We gather today to share the music of promise and to renew our hope in God's unfailing love. We join our hearts in worship, to celebrate the grace that transforms us and to offer testimony to the life that forever changed the world. O God, Creator of all that is joy and all that is truth, we present our hearts in thanksgiving for the gift of alleluia. We offer our prayers of gratitude and devotion in the words taught to us by Jesus praying… Our Father, who art in heaven… (The Lord's Prayer) ie LESSON 2 (The Young Jesus in the Temple) Pr ev When Jesus was twelve years old His parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover according to the custom. When Passover was over, Jesus' relatives and friends set out to return home. However, they were not aware that the boy Jesus had stayed behind in Jerusalem. When His parents could not find Him, they went back to Jerusalem to search for Him. Fo r After three days, they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard Him was amazed at His understanding and His answers. When His parents saw Him, they were astonished. His mother said to Him, "Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you." "Why were you searching for me?" He asked. "Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?" Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured all these things in her heart, and Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke 2:41-52 (adapted) TESTIMONY OF LIFE - SATB