Sunday Morning at 11:00 AM
Join us Sunday mornings at 11:00 AM or you can also watch live on Facebook Live.
Our traditional worship service celebrates the best of our Wesleyan heritage with praise, music, prayer, Scripture, and proclamation. A warm and welcoming congregation greets one another, shares their joys and concerns, and seeks God’s will for their lives and for our church. All are invited to join our family of faith as we offer our praise and worship to God.
On the first Sunday of every month, we celebrate the Lord’s Supper at both Morning Worship and Sunday Night Live. We share Communion intinction, sharing the common bread and cup, with the option of prepackaged, individual gluten-free kits. All are welcome at the Table! If you would like Communion brought to your home, please contact the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Bulletin for Sunday, October 6
World Communion Sunay
GATHERING
Welcome
Prelude Randy Shepard
*Opening Prayer
O God, we join with our sisters and brothers around the world in remembering Christ’s sacrifice for us. For the opportunity to eat and drink together and for the life we have received, we give you thanks and praise. In the abundance of your many gifts, grant us grace to fill one another’s lives with love. Redeem, restore and remold us until we are made new. Transform our daily bread into the bread of life, and the cup that we drink into the cup of salvation. We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Opening Hymn UMH 578 God of Love and God of Power
Time of Greeting & Passing of the Peace
Anthem God So Loved the World John Stainer
Gathering of All God’s Children - Children Singing
Scripture Lesson Mark 12:28-34
Hymn of Preparation TFWS 2164 Sanctuary
Message Living Generously Part 1, You're Not Far...
Prayers of the People
Response: Hear our prayer.
Pastoral Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer UMH 895
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.
Next Steps
Reception of Our Tithes and Offerings
Offertory I Come with Joy
Doxology, 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 of Thanksgiving
O Lord, may these gifts be used to share the joy that comes from loving You and all of our neighbors in this community and around the world, all this we pray in the name of Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever, Amen.
HOLY COMMUNION
Invitation
Christ our Lord invites to his table all who love him,
who earnestly repent of their sin
and seek to live in peace with one another.
Therefore, let us confess our sin before God and one another.
Confession and Pardon
Merciful God,
we confess that we have not loved you with our whole heart.
We have failed to be an obedient church.
We have not done your will,
we have broken your law,
we have rebelled against your love,
we have not loved our neighbors,
and we have not heard the cry of the needy.
Forgive us, we pray.
Free us for joyful obedience,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Hear the good news:
Christ died for us while we were yet sinners;
that proves God’s love toward us.
In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven!
In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven!
Glory to God. Amen.
The Great Thanksgiving
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
It is right, and a good and joyful thing...
...And so,
with your people on earth and all the company of heaven
we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
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.
Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ...
...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.
Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.
Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here...
...Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy church,
all honor and glory is yours, almighty Father, now and for ever.
Amen.
Giving the Bread and Cup
Communion Hymn UMH 628 Eat This Bread
SENDING FORTH
*Hymn UMH 111 (vs 1,3,4) How Can We Name a Love
*Benediction
*Benediction Response Go Now in Peace Chancel Choir
Postlude Randy Shepard
We collect canned goods to donate to the Urban Ministries of Wake County every Sunday.
