Worship for 19 th October 2025
Café Church
‘A toolbox for faith’
Call to worship and Opening Prayer
Come to hear God’s inspired Word,
Come with open hearts to hear its teaching,
Come with humble hearts to hear its
instruction,
Come with minds willing to hear its challenge.
A Gathering prayer
Wanting to know you more,
we gather as God’s people.
As broken and sinful people,
we gather as God’s people.
Looking for healing and hope,
we gather as God’s people.
We gather before you today, O God,
eager to hear your Word and learn from it.
You have given us all the instruction
we need to live in ways that please you,
and we gather to worship you now.
Amen.
Hymn: 170 - Father, I place into your
hands
Activity – What’s the story?
Prayers of Forgiveness
Lord, you forgive us when our faith flags and
falters.
You are the enduring God who persists with
us
when we fail to persist with you.
We thank and praise you for this faithful
forgiveness, which never flags,never falters, endures to the end.
Amen.
Prayer of praise and thanksgiving
Almighty God, we thank and praise you for
your powerful Word,
which lasts forever and gives us strength to
endure.
Thank you for giving us the Bible,
so we can learn and be guided by your Holy
Spirit.
Your Word helps us stay strong when our
faith is tested.
All thanks and praise be to you, Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Hymn: 735 The wise man built his
house
Reading: 2 Timothy 3.14–4.5
Remain true to the things that you have been
taught ever since you were a child .
Remember the Bible stories that have shaped
your thinking and kept you on the right track
to be friends with Jesus. God has breathed
into the Bible so that it has God’s own life in it
.
Bible stories are useful for all kinds of
teaching, including setting people on the right
path in life and helping people to change
direction if they have gone the wrong way.
Everyone can learn from it.
The Bible trains us and shapes us so we can
do the good work God wants us to do. In the
presence of God and Jesus Christ who will
judge everyone at the end of time, I am
asking you to make a serious promise that
you will preach the message. Be ready to do
this at any time.
Get serious with people – encourage them,
tell them off if necessary, help them to see
how important their choices are. Be patient
with them, but give them the full picture.
For there will come a time when people will
choose the teachers who only say things that
they like to hear. They will become allergic to
people who tell them the truth and they will
start following made-up stories. But you need
to be calm and stick to the truth, even when
this means that you suffer for it. Do the work
of an evangelist and do it well.
Hymn: 337 I, the Lord of sea and sky
Reading: Luke 18.1-8
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to
show them that they should always pray and
not give up. He said: “In a certain town there
was a judge who neither feared God nor
cared what people thought. And there was a
widow in that town who kept coming to him
with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my
adversary.’
“For some time he refused. But finally he said
to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or
care what people think, 5 yet because this
widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she
gets justice, so that she won’t eventually
come and attack me!’”
And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust
judge says. And will not God bring about
justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to
him day and night? Will he keep putting them
off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice,
and quickly. However, when the Son of
Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
Reflection
Hymn: 811 What a friend we have in Jesus.
Intercessions
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father in Heaven,
hallowed be your name
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on Earth as in Heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins,
As we forgive those who sin against us
Lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil
For the kingdom, the power
and the glory are yours,
now and forever.
Amen