2021.05.16 - Seventh Sunday of Easter -- Faith Lutheran Church -- Marion, Iowa

Seventh Sunday of Easter
Faith Lutheran Church -- Marion, Iowa
The gospel for Easter’s seventh Sunday is always taken from the long prayer Jesus prays for his followers in John’s gospel on the night before his death, and always includes Jesus’ desire that his followers will be one as he and the Father are one. This oneness is not mere doctrinal agreement or institutional unity, but mutual abiding, interpenetrating life, mutual love, and joy. This oneness is the work of the Spirit whom we have received but also await. Come, Holy Spirit!
Acts 1:15-17, 21-26
Psalm 1
1 John 5:9-13
John 17:6-19
Reader: Greg Marling
Musician: Barbara Koch
Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness - ELW 843
Son of God Eternal Savior - ELW 655
Faith has served the Marion-Cedar Rapids area for more than thirty years; supporting local ministries such as Feed Iowa First, local hunger initiatives, Habitat for Humanity, and Senior Assistance Programs. We are in partnership with the 9,091 congregations, 28 Lutheran colleges and universities, 8 seminaries, 450 global missionaries and one of the largest non-profit social service networks in the United States; as well as Lutheran World Relief worldwide. All are ministries of the 3.4 million member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
We are a community of faith, growing in Christ, sharing in God’s love. Nurturing faith, together . . .