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©Order of Worship for Sunday January 19, 2025

Second Sunday after Epiphany





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Prelude
 
Coming of the Light
 
Greetings………………………..………………Pastor Steven
 
Announcements:………………………………………….Lorri B.
 
 
Call to Worship:……………………………………….Ian D.
Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, July 2024.
 
Be still for a moment. What do you hear? What do you smell? What do you feel under your feet? Beloved, God is here.
In the familiar and unfamiliar, God is here with us.
Take a moment to look around. Whom do you notice? Who isn’t here that you expected to see? Whether this community feels brand new or familiar to you, God is here.
In the familiar and unfamiliar, God is here with us.
Take a deep breath. We share this air, this space, this worship home together. In our breathing and worshiping in this time and place, God is here.
In the familiar and unfamiliar, God is here with us.
God is here. May we pay attention and discern how God brings us together in the familiar and the unfamiliar to be and become the Body of Christ.
May we notice and join in God’s work of forming us for community as we worship today. Amen.
 
Opening Prayer: ……………………………..…Ian D.
 
God, our God,
As you were with the wedding party in Cana of Galilee, be with us here today. The wine of our lives and souls has run out. Fill this place with the presence of your Holy Spirit. Fill the water pots of our souls this day with new and fresh wine from your wine cellar. The wine of yesterday is gone; it is stale; it is old. Today, God, send your anointing power in this place and in the lives of your people that we may find strength to hold on and hold out. Help us to know that the best wine is yet to come, and we can taste and see your goodness. Show yourself to be powerful, empowering, and awesome this day and for all times to come. In the name of Jesus the Christ, we pray. Amen.

Opening Hymns:…..“In Unity We Lift Our Song” TFWS #2221
Ken Medema/Brier Patch
 
1       In unity we lift our song
of grateful adoration,
for brothers brave and sisters strong.
What cause for celebration!
For those whose faithfulness
has kept us through distress,
who’ve shared with us our plight,
who’ve held us in the night,
the blessed congregation.
 
2       For stories told and told again
to every generation,
to give us strength in time of pain,
to give us consolation.
Our spirits to revive
to keep our dreams alive,
when we are far from home
and evil seasons come;
how firm is our foundation.
 
3       For sacred scriptures handed down,
a blessed trust and treasure,
which give us hope when hope is gone
and make us weep with pleasure.
And when our eyes grow blind
and death is close behind,
we shall recite them still
whose words our hearts can fill
with hope beyond all measure.
 
4       For God our way, our bread, our rest,
of all these gifts the Giver.
Our strength, our guide, our nurturing breast
whose hand will yet deliver.
Who keeps us till the day
when night shall pass away,
when hate and fear are gone
and all our work is done,
and we shall sing forever.
 
We Are the Body of Christ#2227 TFWS
Words and music by Scott Wesley Brown and David Hampton (1 Cor. 12)
 © 1996 New Spring Publishing, Inc.
 
One heart, one spirit, one voice to praise you,
we are the body of Christ.
One goal, one vision: To see you exalted.
We are the body of Christ.
And to this we give our lives to see you glorified.
 
One heart, one Spirit, one voice to praise you,
We are the body of Christ.
One goal, one vision: To see you exalted.
We are the body, we are the body,
We are the body of Christ.
 
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.

Giving of our tithes and offerings ……….Pastor Steven
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Offertory..Forever….Great is thy Faithfulness….…..Greg Dixon
 
Offertory Response:  The Doxology” #94 UMH
Words: Thomas Ken, 1674 Music: Geistliche Kirchengesänge, 1623;
Adapt. © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
 
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 up-lifts!  Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
 
Prayer After Receiving:………………………Pastor Steven
 
Prayers of the People: ………………………Pastor Steven
 
Anthem:
 

Epistle Lesson:…..1 Corinthians 12: 1 – 11………Ian D.

 
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.
        
Bind Us Together  #2226 TFWS
Words: Bob Gillman Music: Bob Gillman
 c 1977 Kingsway’s Thank You Music
 
Bind us together, Lord, bind us together with
cords that cannot be broken.  Bind us together,
Lord, bind us together, Lord, bind us together in
love.  There is only one God, there is only one
King;  There is only one body, that is why we sing.
 
Bind us together, Lord, bind us together with
cords that cannot be broken.  Bind us together
Lord, bind us together Lord, bind us together
in love.
 
Sermon:…..“What gifts are you bringing?”……….Pastor Steven
 
Closing Hymn:….“I’m Goin’ a Sing When the Spirit Says Sing”
#333 UMH
Words and Music: Afro-American spiritual
Adapt. © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
 
1.      I’m goin’ a sing when the Spirit says sing,
I’m goin’ a sing when the Spirit says sing,
I’m goin’ a sing when the Spirit says sing,
and obey the Spirit of the Lord.
 
2.pray   3.moan   4.shout
 
 
Dismissal with Blessing:……………………Pastor Steven
 
Postlude:……………………..………………………………Greg D.
 


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