October 27, 2024

Each communion Sunday thereafter we will have a basket for those who feel called to give above and beyond their pledge. This "second-mile" giving will help fund the pastor's discretionary fund, which helps meet community needs as they arise, such as gas, lodging, clothing, etc. Feel free to bring your spare cash and change to help make a change in the lives of those in need.

5:00p Youth Group
Monday
6:30p Jubilee Bell Rehearsal
7:00p Vocal Fusion Rehearsal
7:30p Peak Experience Barbershop Chorus

October 20, 2024
 
Prelude
Cynthia Hibbetts

Welcome
Rev. David Petty

Threshold Moment
Rev. David Petty

*Threshold Song
Christ Has Broken Down the Wall
W&S #3122
Mark A. Miller © 2011 Choristers Guild
 
1. Christ has broken down the wall,
Christ has broken down the wall.
Let us join our hearts as one,
Christ has broken down the wall.
 
2. We’re accepted as we are,
we’re accepted as we are.
Through God’s love
all is reconciled,
we’re accepted as we are.
 
3. Cast aside your doubts and fears,
cast aside your doubts and fears.
Peace and love, freely offered here; cast aside your
doubts and fears.
 
4. We will tear down the walls!
We will tear down the walls!
God has called us, one and all;
Christ has broken down the walls!
Christ has broken down the walls!
 
*Opening Hymn
Gather Us In
TFWS #2236
WORDS: Marty Haugen (Matt. 5:13) MUSIC: Marty Haugen © 1982 GIA Publications, Inc.
 
1. Here in this place
new light is streaming,
now is the darkness
vanished away,
 
see in this space
our fears and our dreamings,
brought here to You
in the light of this day.
 
Gather us in
the lost and forsaken,
gather us in
the blind and the lame;
 
call to us now,
and we shall awaken,
we shall arise
at the sound of our name.
 
2. We are the young
our lives are a myst’ry,
we are the old
who yearn for Your face,
 
we have been sung
throughout all of hist’ry,
called to be light
to the whole human race.
 
Gather us in
the rich and the haughty,
gather us in
the proud and the strong;
 
give us a heart
so meek and so lowly,
give us the courage
to enter the song.
 
3. Here we will take
the wine and the water,
here we will take
the bread of new birth,
 
here You shall call
Your sons and
Your daughters,
call us anew
to be salt for the earth.
 
Give us to drink
the wine of compassion,
give us to eat
the bread that is You;
 
nourish us well,
and teach us to fashion
lives that are holy
and hearts that are true.
 
4. Not in the dark
of buildings confining,
not in some heaven,
light-years away,
 
but here in this place
the new light is shining,
now is the Kingdom,
now is the day.
 
Gather us in
and hold us forever,
gather us in
and make us Your own;
 
gather us in
all peoples together,
fire of love
in our flesh and our bone.
 
*Greeting Your Neighbors – Passing the Peace of Christ
 
Mystery Box

Scripture Reading
1 Corinthians 12:1-26
Rev. Sylvia Edwards

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be ignorant. You know that when you were gentiles you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says “Let Jesus be cursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit.
Now there are varieties of gifts but the same Spirit, and there are varieties of services but the same Lord, and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of powerful deeds, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many members yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and those members of the body that we think less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect, whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.

Prayer for Illumination

Leader: May the words of my mouth,
People: and the meditations of all of our hearts
All: be acceptable in your sight, O Lord our rock and our redeemer.
Psalm 19:14

Message
Living Together on Uncommon Ground: Respect
Rev. David Petty

Prayer Song
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
TFWS #2193
 
Lord, listen to your
children praying,
Lord, send your Spirit
in this place;

Lord, listen to your
children praying,
send us love,
send us power,
send us grace.
 
Prayer
Rev. Sylvia Edwards
 
Silent Prayer

The Lord’s 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.
 
Lead us not
into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
 
For Thine is the Kingdom,
and the Power
and the Glory forever.
 
Amen

Invitation to Offering
Rev. Sylvia Edwards

Offertory
Sanctuary Choir
 
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Rev. David Petty

Doxology
Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow
UMH #94
 
Praise God, from whom
all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures
here below: Alleluia! Alleluia!
 
Praise God, the source
of all our gifts!
Praise Jesus Christ,
whose power uplifts!
 
Praise the Spirit,
Holy Spirit!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia!

*Sending Hymn
O For a World
 
O for a world where everyone 
respects each other’s ways,
where love is lived and all is done 
with justice and with praise.
 
O for a world where goods are shared 
and misery relieved,
where truth is spoken, children spared, 
equality achieved.
 
We welcome one world family 
and struggle with each choice
that opens us to unity 
and gives our vision voice.
 
The poor are rich, the weak are strong, 
the foolish ones are wise.
Tell all who mourn; outcasts belong, 
who perishes will rise.
 
O for a world preparing for 
God’s glorious reign of peace,
where time and tears will be no more, 
and all but love will cease.
 
Benediction
Rev. David Petty
 
Postlude
Cynthia Hibbetts