Theme: Ecclesiology in Cyber Age

Theme: Ecclesiology in Cyber Age

Whatsapp to Worship

L: Come! Let us relate with God, the Creator

All: we are already doing it on Facebook!

L: Come Let us follow God, the redeemer.

All: We are already doing it on Twitter!

L: Come Let us connect with God, the comforter.

All: we are already linked on linkedin!

L: Let us come together and worship the triune God.

 All: Not alone on FB, Twitter or Linkedin, but as one people along with creation. Yes! Indeed how pleasant and good it is for brothers and sisters come together in unity.

Skype-ing with God

            God of all networks, we thank you for the links that you have provided amongst your creation. We ask you to Google our minds and quicker our loneliness and import in us the sense of Nokia in connecting with people. Lord, we request you to chat with us in the real world. Update us with the experiences of the people and help us to attend the calls of the one’s calling on phone and in reality. We ask all these in the name of the one who called us and to communicate the message of love, Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

Desi - Jukebox (Bhajan)

Saranam Saranam... ( Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu)

Text from God (Hebrews 10: 19-25)

Group Chat (an enactment)

We live in a cyber world which redefines space, community, and relationships. We are all citizens of this virtual world where we have the possibility to create new communities and to experience fellowship and spirituality in non-conventional ways. This demands the courage and creativity to re-imagine ekklesia as an open community of strangers who are committed to become friends. At the same time we also need to be critically conscious about the reality that the cyber world is not accessible to all. Cyber world privileges a few and thereby divides the community. That calls for our interventions to make the cyber world more just and democratic and use that space to make the church happen in our times.

We-Chat with God

Lord we pray for the youth here in our nation and around the world, who are connected through cyber space into a virtual world where the reality grows invisible. We ask you to help us reclaim our realities through our experiences and that of the others we see around. May your empower us to challenge the human made technologies that isolating us from the realities of human life.

Lord we pray for the church that she will enhance her network so that it reaches the youth. Lord we ask you to guide us, the church, to be receptive to the networks of the youngsters; we acknowledge their creativity and their adaptation to the advancing technologies of today. Teach the church to accommodate the young intellectual minds and the advancements in today’s cyber age.

Compassionate God, we specially pray for the ones who isolate themselves by embracing the virtual world forgoing the real world. Give us a sense of community life and togetherness so that we all may gather with one spirit to live what you have taught us.

Lord in your Mercy... Hear Our Prayers...

Lord’s Prayer

Closing Hymn: (Bind Us together Lord...)

G-Talk (God-Talk)

            Ever loving God, we thank you for hearing our plea and for being present with us in this worship. We ask your guiding presence to go with us and continue to inspire to discern the community life and guide us to embrace community than isolating ourselves into a world that is not real.  We have been creating communities that are not real and building people in a faceless world. Lead us to build communities in the real world so that we do not alienate and encourage isolation of people. We pray this prayer in the name of the one who enhances community life, Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

Benediction

            May the essence of mutual communion of the blessed trinity, God, the creator, Son the redeemer and Holy Spirit, the sustainer be present and dwell with us all the days of our lives. Amen