Friday, May 27, 2022

Worship Service - May 29, 2022

                            Elkton United Methodist Church
                                   Seventh Sunday of Easter
                                      Sunday, May 29, 2022
                                      8:30 a.m. † 11:00 a.m.

 

Prelude............................... “A Mighty Fortress..... arr. by Matthew McConnell
                                                           is our god1

Choral Introit........ “We Have Come Into This House”1 ...............Chancel Choir

Greeting and Welcome

Time of Centering Prayer

Response #2164 (TFWS)...................................................................................... “Sanctuary”
Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary, pure and holy, tried and true.  With thanksgiving, 
I’ll be a living sanctuary for you.

**Call to Worship
Leader:   We come to this place of prayer.
People:  For here we can bring our hopes and dreams, our hidden fears,
               and doubts.
Leader:   We come to this place of grace.
People: For here we learn compassion and joy and discover how deeply we
               are loved.
Leader:   We come with these people called the Church,
All:         to be blessed by the variety of gifts, to live as one for our God.

**Hymn #133 (UMH)................................................ “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”

Call to Confession

What idols we fashion with our hands, how much energy and time serving them occupy our 

hearts!  Let us confess how we have misplaced our priorities and seek the One who asks

us to be first in our lives.


Prayer of Confession (in unison)

Loving God, we are enslaved to sin and so we oftentimes cannot see the sin in our lives.

Each day there are those times when we ignore you and your will for us.  Each week we

find the time to ridicule others, when we could have affirmed them.  Each moment we

seek our own way rather than skipping down your path of joy and obedience.  We come

asking forgiveness for our foolish lives.  Deliver us and break the chains of sin and death

which hold us captive.  Open us to your grace and give us the gift of the Spirit so we may

live as people of the Risen Lord, Jesus Christ.

Silent Prayers of Confession

Words of Pardon and Assurance

Leader:    In the beginning was God, and at the end will be God, and in every

                moment in between, there is God: creating, redeeming, and sustaining

                us.
People:    And through Christ, God’s love is made known to us. Thanks be to

                God that Jesus is with us and forgives us. AMEN.


New Testament Lesson, Acts 16:16-34 (page 136)
Leader: This is the Word of God for the people of God.
People: Thanks be to God!

Musical Offering................. “In Flanders Fields”1......................... Chancel Choir

**Gospel Lesson, John 17:20-26 (page 111)
Leader: Christ is risen!
People: Christ is risen indeed!

**Response #367 (UMH)................................................................................. “He Touched Me

Sermon..................................... “An Ironic Escape”............................ Rev. Eric Warner

Response #177 (UMH)............................................................................................ “He Is Lord”

He is Lord, he is Lord! He is risen from the dead and he is Lord! Every knee shall bow,

every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Prayer Concerns/Pastoral Prayer

The Lord's Prayer (in unison)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will be

done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread.  And forgive us our

trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.  And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. 

AMEN.


Response #2215 (TFWS)................................................................................ “Cares Chorus”

I cast all my cares upon you, I lay all of my burdens down at your feet, and anytime that

I don't know what to do, I will cast all my cares upon you.

Announcements

**Hymn #717 (UMH).................................................. “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”

**Benediction

We leave this place of prayer, to join in God’s mission of redemption.  We leave this place of

grace, to share the compassion and joy of Jesus with others.  We leave to be with the people of

our world so the Spirit might move in us and through us to bring salvation to everyone.

AMEN.


**Congregational Response

Bind us together, Lord, bind us together with cords that cannot be broken.

Bind us together, Lord, bind us together, bind us together in love. 


Postlude...................................... “O For A Thousand.................. arr. by Mark Hayes
                                                             TONGUES TO SING"1

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             Flowers on the altar today are to the Glory of God in loving memory of Bob Bunnell,

                     who died on Memorial Day 2005, and in loving memory of Peg Bunnell, 

                            with whom he was reunited in February, given by their children.

 

                  Flowers on the organ are in loving memory of Marjorie Campbell, 

                                                 on the 10th anniversary of her death,

               given by her loving husband Charlie, daughters Carol & Kay and families.

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**Indicates the congregation should stand if able

UMH: United Methodist Hymnal (red cover)
TFWS: The Faith We Sing (black cover)
W&S:  Worship & Song (green cover)

1Public Music performance provided for and reported to CCLI Licensing
Copyright License:  #1824650/Recording License:  CSPL148932

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