Grace

Lessons in Leadership

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A

Concluding our series on leadership, this worship focuses on the transformative power of leading with grace and the ongoing work of reconciliation. We will explore how true grace isn't about avoiding conflict or being overly permissive, but rather acting as a conduit for God's abundant forgiveness while maintaining healthy boundaries. Through communal reflection, confession, and specific rituals of reconciliation, the service will provide a safe space to lament our hurts, extend forgiveness, and discern our next right steps together.

Music Notes


To lead like Christ is to lead with grace. It is to walk alongside those who are oppressed by debt and generational poverty, to find solidarity with those who have been marginalized because of race or country of origin, to build community based on shared respect and empowerment. Jesus’ parable declares that we don’t live in a zero-sum game where some have to lose for others to win. 

God the Sculptor of the Mountains                 TFWS 2060
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah                     UMH 127
What a Mighty God We Serve                            TFWS 2021
Come, Share the Lord                                            TFWS 2269
Make Me a Channel of Your Peace                    TFWS 2171
Pues Si Vivimos (When We Are Living)          UMH 356

In This Series...


Week 1 - Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A Week 2 - Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A Week 3 - Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A Week 4 - Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A

Colors


  • Green

In This Series...


Week 1 - Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A Week 2 - Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A Week 3 - Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A Week 4 - Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A