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Worship with Us Sundays
Just as we believe God meets us right where we are, our worship services intend to meet you where you are. Our sanctuary and congregation create a relaxed atmosphere for worship featuring inspired music and engaging preaching. We are handicapped accessible, offer large print bulletins and assisted hearing devices. Masks are optional. We welcome wiggly children—and all who may have difficulty sitting for long periods of time—with ample grace, space, and activity bags.
We celebrate Holy Communion on the first Sunday of each month. At UCC Norwell, the Communion table is a place where all are worthy and welcomed. Our faith and theology are most fully expressed at the table, as we remember how Jesus broke bread with the disciples who would deny and betray him, the ultimate demonstration of God’s unconditional love and expansive grace. Our regular practice is that of intinction where our deacons and pastors will serve pre-cut bread. You may choose to dip your bread into the communion cup of juice or forgo the cup and simply receive its blessing. A gluten-free option is also available for those who require it.
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Philosopher-theologian Josiah Royce coined the term beloved community in the early 20th century, casting a vision for an ideal community dedicated to the cause of truth, justice, and reconciliation. Royce founded the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a movement that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. later joined. While it was not his invention, Dr. King’s embrace of beloved community solidified the concept within the public consciousness. This new language of the beloved community exemplified what Jesus had come to proclaim two centuries earlier: the ever-inbreaking but not-yet realized reign of God’s love on earth. Join us in February to find your place within the beloved community, and as we as a church come to understand our role in its actualization.
Advent 2021
Advent is a season of waiting, yet from the moment John the Baptist emerges from the wilderness we come to understand that idle waiting is not what God desires of us. Inspired by the Sanctified Art series, this Advent, in preparation for the coming Messiah, we wonder together—what can’t wait? What demands our immediate attention? What requires our devotion and is in need of our work? What is it that God can’t wait for? Is it our praise, reconciliation, and proclamation? Is it hope, peace, joy, and love? This Advent, we invite you to join us in imagining, prioritizing, and preparing. As we wait, what can’t?
The word faith has come to reference something we have within ourselves. However, from the life of Jesus through the letters of Paul, the Acts of the Apostles and the book of James, scripture tells us that authentic faith is tangible, embodied in our words and actions.
UCC Norwell enables us to live out our faith, loving as Jesus loved and serving as he served. We have learned through COVID and in the pages of the bible that real faith is not limited to Sunday mornings or kept inside of a church building, but that real faith is always in motion, most fully experienced and expressed in relationship to others and in relationship to God’s creation.
The Bible is a collection of stories that together tell of God’s relationship with, and love for, all of humanity. From the creation of the world to the revelation of Jesus Christ and the formation of the Church, scripture captures personal experiences of God’s people at times of great struggle where they feel all but abandoned by God, and times of great joy and triumph where they celebrate God’s abiding presence.
We, too, are called to tell our stories; for it is through reflecting on our story and sharing it with others that we come to see the hand of God at work within our lives. In this four-week series, members of our congregation will share personal stories reflecting on God’s presence in their lives. What is your story?
From the praise of the Psalmists to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the letters of Paul in which he articulates the hallmarks of Christian community, thankfulness is a theme that runs through the entire Bible and a practice that transforms the hearts of those who express it. Giving thanks is a disciplined habit that helps us to identify God’s grace in our lives and one that elicits an active response of generosity.