(Image: “Christ Teaching the Disciples” 17th-18th Cent. Walters Art Museum Baltimore, MD United States)
©Order of Worship for Sunday September 22, 2024
Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost
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Prelude:.…………“I Have Decided Medley”…………….Greg D.
Arr. by Russell Mauldin © 1997, New Spring Publishing.
Coming of the Light:…………………………………..
Greetings:……………………………………Pastor Steven
Opening Prayer: ……………………………….……Ian D.
O God, make the door of this house wide enough
to receive all who need human love and fellowship,
narrow enough to shut out envy, pride, and strife.
Make its threshold smooth enough
to be no stumbling block to children,
nor to straying feet,
but rugged and strong enough to turn back
evil’s power.
God, make the door of this house
the gateway to your eternal kingdom.
Amen.
Opening Hymns:“Jesu, Jesu” #432 UMH
Words: Tom Colvin, 1969 Music: Ghana folk song © 1969 and 1989
Hope Publishing Co.
Refrain
Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show
us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
1. Kneels at the feet of his friends, silently washes their
feet, Master who acts as a slave to them.
Refrain
Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show
us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
2. Neighbors are rich and poor, neighbors are black and
white, neighbors are near and far away.
Refrain
Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show
us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
3. These are the ones we should serve, these are the ones
we should love; all these are neighbors to us and you.
Refrain
Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show
us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
4. Loving puts us on our knees, serving as though we are
slaves, this is the way we should live with you.
Refrain
Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show
us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
5. Kneel at the feet of our friends, silently washing their
feet, this is the way we should live with you.
Refrain
Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show
us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
“Because He Lives” #364 UMH
Words: Gloria and William J. Gaither, 1971,
Music: William J. Gaither, 1971 © 1971 William J. Gaither
1. God sent his Son, they called him Jesus;
he came to love, hea., and forgive;
he lived and died to buy my pardon,
an empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives.
Because he lives, I can face to tomorrow;
because he lives, all fear is gone;
because I know he holds the future,
and life is worth the living just because he lives.
2. How sweet to hold a newborn baby,
and feel the pride and joy he gives;
but greater still the calm assurance,
this child can face uncertain days because he lives.
Because he lives, I can face to tomorrow;
because he lives, all fear is gone;
because I know he holds the future,
and life is worth the living just because he lives.
3. And then one day I’ll cross the river;
I’ll fight life’s final war with pain;
and then as death gives way to victory,
I’ll see the lights of glory and I’ll know he reigns.
Because he lives, I can face to tomorrow;
because he lives, all fear is gone;
because I know he holds the future,
and life is worth the living just because he lives.
Passing of the Peace:…………………………..Pastor Steven
Let us offer signs of reconciliation and peace to one another.
Gloria Patri:………“Glory Be to the Father” #71 UMH
Words: Lesser Doxology, 3rd-4th century
Music: Henry W. Greatorex, 1851
Glory be to the Father
and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen. Amen.
Announcements:……………………………………….Lorri B.
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Offertory: …………..…“On Eagles Wings”….…….….……Ron L.
Words and Music: M. Joncas © 1979, 1989 North American Liturgy Resources Arr. by Greg D.
Offertory Response: “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow” (The Doxology) #95 UMH
Words by Thomas Ken, 1674
Music attributed to Louis Bourgeois, 1551
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
praise him, all creatures here below;
praise him above, ye heavenly host;
praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Prayer After Receiving:…………………………Pastor Steven
Prayers of the People:…………………………..Pastor Steven
Anthem: ……“I’ll Walk With God”……………Ron L.
Words: Paul Webster Music: Nicholas Brodszky © 1952, 1954 Warner Brothers, Inc.
Gospel Lesson………………Mark 9:30-37……….Ian D.
Prediction of the passion
They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it, for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.
Then they came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest. He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.” Then he took a little child and put it among them, and taking it in his arms he said to them, “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”
Hymn of Preparation: “Amen, Amen”
African American spiritual Arr. © Nelsie T. Johnson
Amen, amen, amen,
amen, amen.
Amen, amen, amen,
amen, amen.
Sermon:….”Why Do You Want To Be Great?”…Pastor Steven
Closing Hymn:“I Have Decided to Follow Jesus” #2129 TFWS
Words: Anon. Music: Anon. Arr. c 1986, Word Music
1. I have decided to follow Jesus,
I have decided to follow Jesus,
I have decided to follow Jesus,
No turning back, no turning back.
2. The world behind me, the cross before me,
The world behind me, the cross before me,
The world behind me, the cross before me,
No turning back, no turning back.
3. Though none go with me, still I will follow,
Though none go with me, still I will follow,
Though none go with me, still I will follow,
No turning back, no turning back.
Dismissal with Blessing:…………………………….Pastor Steven
Postlude:………………………………………………………..Greg D.
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