GREETING
AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
INTROIT..................................................... “FILL
ME, JESUS”1........................................ CHANCEL
CHOIR
OPENING
TIME
OF CENTERING PRAYER
Leader: We
gather to listen to the voice of Jesus say, “Come, follow me!” But
will
you follow when Jesus also calls you to release the hold of all you
possess?
People: We want to follow Jesus anywhere he leads,
and we can with God’s
help.
Leader: We gather to remember all that God has
taught us. But what about when
we must put what we learn from
God into action?
People: We want to put our faith into action, and
we can with God’s help.
Leader: We gather to live into God’s abundance,
recognizing the riches of the
prayers, presence, gifts,
service, and witness that surround us. But what
about when the world tempts us
back into fear?
People: We want to turn away from fear and choose
God’s abundance, and
we
can with God’s help.
Leader: Following
Jesus means sharing in God’s abundant gifts together. But
will
you keep shining when others try to pull you astray, putting other
pursuits
before the pursuit of God?
All: With
God’s help, we will resist the pull of wealth and fear to pursue
God’s
way of love, abundance, and flourishing. AMEN.
**HYMN #399 (UMH)................................................................................... “TAKE
MY LIFE, AND LET IT BE”
Let
us willingly embrace that which we believe is true - we can come to the
seat
of God’s grace, bringing our prayers of confession to the One who is
overflowing
with mercy. Join me as we pray together…
God of grace: we offer you our
lives. We confess we are often stingy in
our gifts of time, of talents, of treasures. We confess our addiction to the
drugs of consumerism and that, as your church, we have often fallen
headlong into the culture’s seduction. Forgive us and free us to joyful
simplicity, that we may be signs of grace to your world. AMEN.
SILENT PRAYERS OF
CONFESSION
Leader: Hear
the good news! Because God loves us, we
lack for nothing;
because
God forgives us, we have everything we need; because God
surrounds
us with siblings in Christ, we do not journey alone.
People: Committing
everything to God, trusting in the One who redeems
us,
we decide to live as God's faithful and forgiven people.
Thanks
be to God, we are forgiven! AMEN.
MUSICAL OFFERING......................... “LEAD ME, LORD”1............................................ CHANCEL
CHOIR
**RESPONSE #2119 (TFWS)............................................................. “WHERE
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS”
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is peace; where the
Spirit of the
Lord is, there is love. There is comfort in life’s darkest
hour; there is light
and life, there is help and power in the Spirit, in the
Spirit of the Lord.
SERMON.........................................
“LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND” ................................. REV.
ERIC WARNER
**RESPONSE #2112 (TFWS)................................................. “JESUS
WALKED THIS LONESOME VALLEY”
PRAYER
CONCERNS/PASTORAL PRAYER
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.
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.
CALL TO OFFERING
OFFERTORY
**DOXOLOGY #95 (UMH)..................................... “PRAISE
GOD, FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW”
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Amen.
**OFFERTORY
PRAYER
**HYMN
#701 (UMH)............................................................................... “WHEN
WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN”
**CHORAL
BENEDICTION....... “LORD, DISMISS
US WITH THY BLESSING”1........... CHANCEL
CHOIR
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............................................... “FANFARE
OF PRAISE”1...................................... JASON
KRUG
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**Indicates the congregation should stand
if able
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