HOLY COMMUNION
RESPONSE TO THE WORD
OFFERING AND TRADITIONAL DOXOLOGY
OFFERING: Feel free to place your gifts, offerings, and tithes in the container in the aisle behind the last pew, as you enter. We thank you and may God bless each of you.
*HYMN #376 ” Victory in Jesus ” ( on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS “Stay in love With God”
( on screen)
Do no harm by any word or deed; do good wherever there is need. Remain attentive to God’s word.
Stay in love with God, Stay in love with God. ————————————————————————————————-
Attendance and Financial Information – September 24, 2023
Worship – 85 Online engaged and viewed (no power)
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
PO Box 185 369 Allport Cutoff Allport, PA 16821
Church Office Telephone: 814-345-6860 Pastor’schurchofficehours: Mon.,Tues,&Wed. 9-12am
Parsonage Telephone: 814-345-6931 Pastor Julia Cell: 814-883-8602
Daycare telephone: 814-345-3809 Church Email address: gumc.office@gmail.com Church Website: www.gethsemanechurch.org WiFi Password: Trustinchrist
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
October 1, 2023 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
” It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.” Josh McDowell
(Repeat)
18th Sunday after Pentecost
October 1, 2023
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.”
1 John 4:9
PREPARATION AND PRAISE
GREETING and ANNOUNCEMENTS
GATHERING PRAISE SONG PRELUDE
We are excited that you are worshiping with Gethsemane today. CALL TO WORSHIP:2
Come! Now is the time to worship!
We come to worship God who loves us.
When the Israelites grumbled and quarreled when there was no water to drink, God miraculously produced water to show them God’s faithfulness and love.
When we question and accuse God, God responds by showing us love.
When the chief priests and elders questioned Jesus’ authority, Jesus answered them with a story about the righteousness of doing God’s will instead of paying lip service to God’s will.
When we test and interrogate God, God responds by pointing us back to love.
By answering our quarreling and questioning with love, God teaches us how to love God, neighbor, self, and all creation.
When we love as God loves, we respond to testing and accusing by living the faith and sharing God’s love.
Come! Now is the time to worship!
We come to worship God who loves us for the long haul.
1 /CCLI#1492484 CCVI#5041408
2 / (United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.) Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, April 2023.
OPENING PRAYER :
Led by Pastor Julia
Majesty, Worship His Majesty
( on screen)
Pam Hampton
Exodus 17:1-7
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE “Jesus Loves Me”
JOYS AND CONCERNS “I Cast All My Cares Upon You”
I cast all my cares upon you.
I lay all of my burdens down at Your feet. And anytime that I don’t know what to do, I will cast all my cares upon you
PRAYER OF INTERCESSION (In unison after 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.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory forever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13)
GREETING AND SHARING GOD’S PEACE
Sharing Joy by greeting each other from where you are seated.
SCRIPTURE READING Julia Piper
Matthew 21:23-32
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
MESSAGE ” Learning From Jesus: Conflict Resolution”
*HYMN
SCRIPTURE READING:
