First Church
of Christ, Scientist,
Chattanooga
You’re warmly welcome to join us for our Communion Service this Sunday
at 10:30 AM ET either in person or online.
This is a healing service—a quiet hour of prayer, music, and reading the Lesson-Sermon from our pastor:
the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
1. Hymn #569
Saw ye my Saviour? Heard ye the glad sound?
Felt ye the power of the Word?
’Twas the Truth that made us free,
And was found by you and me
In the life and the love of our Lord.
Mourner, it calls you,—“Come to my bosom,
Love wipes your tears all away,
And will lift the shade of gloom,
And for you make radiant room
Midst the glories of one endless day.”
Sinner, it calls you,—“Come to this fountain,
Cleanse the foul senses within;
’Tis the Spirit that makes pure,
That exalts thee, and will cure
All thy sorrow and sickness and sin.”
Strongest deliverer, friend of the friendless,
Life of all being divine:
Thou the Christ, and not the creed;
Thou the Truth in thought and deed;
Thou the water, the bread, and the wine.
(Christian Science Hymnal: Hymns 430–603, Hymn 569. Words: Mary Baker Eddy. Music: Désirée Goyette. Music © 2008 The Christian Science Board of Directors.)
2. Reading a Scriptural Selection.
3. Silent Prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation.
4. Hymn 108
Here, O my Lord, I’d see Thee face to face;
Here would I touch and handle things unseen;
Here grasp with firmer hand th’ eternal grace,
And all my weariness upon Thee lean.
Here would I feed upon the bread of God;
Here drink anew the royal wine of heaven;
Here would I lay aside each earthly load,
Here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven.
And as we rise, the symbols disappear;
The feast, though not the love, is past and gone;
The bread and wine remove, but Thou art here,
Nearer than ever, still my shield and sun.
Feast after feast thus comes and passes by;
Yet passing, points to the glad feast above,
Giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy,
The Lamb’s great bridal feast of bliss and love.
(Christian Science Hymnal, Hymn 108. Words: Horatius Bonar, alt. Music: Genevan Psalter, 1551, arr.)
5. Announcing necessary notices.
6. Reading Tenets of Christian Science
7. Collection.
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First Church of Christ, Scientist
612 McCallie Ave.
Chattanooga, TN 37403
8. Solo.
Let Us Break Bread Together
Traditional Negro Spiritual
Sung by Leon Williams
Handfuls Album
(Used with permission from Watchfire Music)
Let us bread together on our knees
Let us drink wine together on our knees
Let us praise God together on our knees
When I fall on my knees
With my face to the rising sun
O Lord, have mercy on me
9. Reading the Explanatory Note.
10. Announcing the subject of the Lesson-Sermon, and reading the Golden Text.*
11. The "Responsive Reading," read alternately by the First Reader and the congregation.*
12. Reading the Lesson-Sermon.
13. The First Reader briefly invites the congregation to kneel in silent Communion. This is concluded by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer.
14. Singing the Doxology
Hymn 447
Be Thou, O God, exalted high;
And as Thy glory fills the sky,
So let it be on earth displayed,
Till Thou art here and now obeyed.
(Christian Science Hymnal: Hymns 430–603, Hymn 447. Words: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady. Music: Désirée Goyette. Music © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors.)
15. Reading the Scientific Statement of Being, and the correlative Scripture according to I John 3:1-3.
16. Pronouncing Benediction.
**Click here for Subject, Golden Text & Responsive Reading