November 3, 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.

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

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
They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love
TFWS #2223
WORDS: Peter Scholtes (John 13:34-35; Eph. 4:4-6)
MUSIC: Peter Scholtes
© 1966 F.E.L. Publications, assigned 1991 to The Lorenz Corp.
 
1. We are one in the Spirit,
we are one in the Lord,
we are one in the Spirit,
we are one in the Lord,
 
and we pray
that all unity
may one day
be restored:
 
Refrain
And they’ll know
we are Christians
by our love,
by our love;
yes, they’ll know
we are Christians
by our love.
 
2. We will walk
with each other,
we will walk hand in hand,
we will walk
with each other,
we will walk hand in hand,
 
and together
we’ll spread the news
that God is
in our land:
 
Refrain
And they’ll know
we are Christians
by our love,
by our love;
yes, they’ll know
we are Christians
by our love.
 
3. We will work
with each other,
we will work side by side,
we will work
with each other,
we will work side by side,
 
and we’ll guard
human dignity,
and save
human pride:
 
Refrain
And they’ll know
we are Christians
by our love,
by our love;
yes, they’ll know
we are Christians
by our love.
 
4. All praise to the Father,
from whom
all things come,
and all to Christ Jesus,
God’s only Son,
 
and all praise
to the Spirit,
who makes us one:
 
Refrain
And they’ll know
we are Christians
by our love,
by our love;
yes, they’ll know
we are Christians
by our love.
 
*Greeting Your Neighbors – Passing the Peace of Christ
 
Mystery Box

Scripture Reading
Matthew 22: 34-40
CLM Twinkle Gordon

Jesus names us many times in scripture as “neighbors” to one another. We have been depending on his vision for the neighborliness of humanity as we navigate our own search for “good news.” Together, we will continue to find ways to tell deeply good news for all people by filtering our interactions through the lens of love. Today’s scripture reminds us that interpretation of the law has always been difficult for humanity. We have never been of one mind. But as we have heard in this series, what we put into the world is part of the ongoing creation of the world. Is it possible to put love out there as always the first impulse for interpretation?

 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, an expert in the law, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

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
Malice Towards None: Love
Rev. David Petty

Invitation to Offering
CLM Twinkle Gordon

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!

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, Silent Prayer & The Lord’s Prayer
CLM Twinkle Gordon
 
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
 
Communion
Rev. David Petty

THE GREAT THANKSGIVING FOR ALL SAINTS

Pastor: The Lord be with you.
People: And also with you.

 Pastor: Lift up your hearts.
 People: We lift them up to the Lord.
 
Pastor: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
  People: It is right to give our thanks and praise.

  Pastor: It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you,
 Father Almighty (almighty God),
 Creator of heaven and earth:
 God of Abraham and Sarah,
 God of Miriam and Moses,
 God of Joshua and Deborah,
 God of Ruth and David,
 God of the priests and the prophets,
 God of Mary and Joseph,
 God of the apostles and the martyrs,
 God of our mothers and our fathers,
 God of our children to all generations.
 And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven, we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
 
 People: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

  Pastor: Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ.
 By the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection
             you gave birth to your Church,
             delivered us from slavery to sin and death,
             and made with us a new covenant by water and the Spirit.
  On the night in which he gave himself up for us, he took bread,
             gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said:
 "Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you.
 Do this in remembrance of me."
  When the supper was over he took the cup,
             gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said:
 "Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant,
             poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.
 Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
  And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us, as we proclaim the mystery of faith.

  People: Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.

  Pastor: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here, and on these gifts of bread and wine. Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ, that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood.
 
 Renew our communion with all your saints, especially those whom we name before you—
 
 Marita McCelland - in our hearts
 Alice Woollums - in our hearts
 Fay Lumpkins - in our hearts
 Ruth Horton - in our hearts
 Jim Behrends - in our hearts
 Iris Lucke - in our hearts
 Marcus Reynolds - in our hearts
 Myrna McFall - in our hearts
 Jean Gibson - in our hearts
 Jack Rinedollar - in our hearts
 Mary Geiseiker - in our hearts
 Ronald Richter - in our hearts
 Evelyn Panos - in our hearts
 Judy Reither - in our hearts
 Woody Woods - in our hearts
 Georg Gehrung - in our hearts
 Joan Pfahl - in our hearts

  Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, strengthen us to run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the Pioneer and Perfecter of our faith. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world, until Christ comes in final victory, and we feast at his heavenly banquet. Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy Church, all honor and glory is yours, almighty Father (God), now and for ever.

  All: Amen.
 
 Communion Hymn
 One Bread, One Body
 UMH #620
 WORDS: John B. Foley, 1978 (1 Cor. 10:16-17; Gal. 3:28; 1 Cor. 12)
 © 1978, 1989 John B. Foley and North American Liturgy Resources
 
 Refrain
 One bread, one body,
 one Lord of all,
 one cup of blessing
 which we bless.
 
 And we, though many
throughout the earth,
we are one body
in this one Lord.
 
 1. Gentile or Jew,
servant or free,
woman or man,
no more.
 
 Refrain
 One bread, one body,
 one Lord of all,
 one cup of blessing
 which we bless.
 
 And we, though many
throughout the earth,
we are one body
in this one Lord.
 
 2. Many the gifts,
many the works,
one in the Lord of all.
 
 Refrain
 One bread, one body,
 one Lord of all,
 one cup of blessing
 which we bless.
 
 And we, though many
throughout the earth,
we are one body
in this one Lord.
 
 3. Grain for the fields,
scattered and grown,
gathered to one, for all.
 
 Refrain
 One bread, one body,
 one Lord of all,
 one cup of blessing
 which we bless.
 
 And we, though many
throughout the earth,
we are one body
in this one Lord.
 
 Communion Hymn
 Shall We Gather at the River
UMH #723
 WORDS: Robert Lowry, 1864 (Rev. 22:1-5)

  1. Shall we gather at the river,
where bright angel
feet have trod,
with its crystal tide forever
flowing by the throne of God?
 
 Refrain
 Yes, we’ll gather
at the river,
the beautiful,
the beautiful river;
 
 gather with the
saints at the river
that flows by the
throne of God.
 
 2. On the margin of the river,
washing up its silver spray,
we will walk
and worship ever,
all the happy golden day.
 
 Refrain
 Yes, we’ll gather
at the river,
the beautiful,
the beautiful river;
 
 gather with the
saints at the river
that flows by the
throne of God.
 
 3. Ere we reach
the shining river,
lay we every burden down;
grace our spirits will deliver,
and provide a
robe and crown.
 
 Refrain
 Yes, we’ll gather
at the river,
the beautiful,
the beautiful river;
 
 gather with the
saints at the river
that flows by the
throne of God.
 
 4. Soon we’ll reach
the shining river,
soon our pilgrimage will cease;
soon our happy
hearts will quiver
with the melody of peace.
 
 Refrain
 Yes, we’ll gather
at the river,
the beautiful,
the beautiful river;
 
 gather with the
saints at the river
that flows by the
throne of God.
 
 *Sending Hymn
 The Gift of Love
 UMH #408
 WORDS: Hal Hopson, 1972 (1 Cor. 13:1-3)
 © 1972 Hope Publishing Co.

  1. Though I may speak
with bravest fire,
and have the gift
to all inspire,
 
 and have not love,
my words are vain,
as sounding brass,
and hopeless gain.
 
 2. Though I may give
all I possess,
and striving so
my love profess,
 
 but not be given
by love within,
the profit soon
turns strangely thin.
 
 3. Come, Spirit, come,
our hearts control,
our spirits long
to be made whole.
 
 Let inward love
guide every deed;
by this we worship,
and are freed.
 
Benediction
Rev. David Petty
 
Postlude
Cynthia Hibbetts