PONSE TO THE WORLD
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 # 377 “It Is Well, With My Soul” ( on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS “Eagles’ Wings” ( on screen) ————————————————————————————————-
Attendance and Financial Information \u2013 February 19, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
PO Box 185 369 Allport Cutoff Allport, PA 16821
Church Office Telephone: 814-345-6860 Pastor\u2019s church office hours : Mon., Tues, & Wed. 9 – 12 am
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
February 26 2023 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“People have to realize that just because you’re a Christian, it doesn’t mean that you’re perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles.Livingbyfaithisaboutwhenyoudomessup,gettingback up, brushingyourselfoff,andkeeptryingtoimprove whereyoumessupor
where you have temptation.”
Tim Tebow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1st Sunday in Lent<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PREPARATION AND PRAISE
GREETING and ANNOUNCEMENTS GATHERING PRAISE SONG
PRELUDE
We are excited that you are worshiping with Gethsemane today. CALL TO WORSHIP: 3
Welcome pilgrims on the way to the cross.
We are learning to follow Jesus.
For those who feel Christ near,
May we not turn away from the discomfort of the journey ahead.
For those who feel as far from Christ as the desert is from the ocean,
May we find Christ in the wilderness with us.
For all of us who stumble and fall in our silence, indifference, and lack of generosity,
May we reach for the hand of Christ, who raises us up to continue on the journey.
You have given us the gift of family,
forgive us for not giving thanks.
You have given us countless blessings,
forgive us for taking your love for granted. And now, gracious God, be merciful to us in our sin and indifference, through Christ, our Savior.
Amen.
*HYMN “Change My Heart O God ” ( on screen)
SCRIPTURE READING: Amber Gisewhite
Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Let us welcome the children:
“Jesus Love Us
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.
Pilgrims on the way, come let us worship God!
We come to worship God as we learn to live inside out!
PRAYER OF CONFESSION:4
O God, you offer us so much,
forgive us for sharing so little.
You have called us to your ways,
forgive us for ignoring your call.
1 \/CCLI#1492484 CCVI#5041408
2 \/(United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING
Matthew 4:1-11
Reverend Julia Piper
3 \/Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Director of Worship Arts, August 2022.
4 \/From Joel N. Mart\u00ednez and Raquel M. Mart\u00ednez, Fiesta Cristiana: Recursos para la Adoraci\u00f3n (Abingdon Press, 2003), 148.
L. The Word of God for the people of God
P. Thanks be to God
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