Sunday Morning Worship Service
January 23, 2005
TO OUR GUESTS, we extend a warm welcome. We invite you to participate in signing our Friendship Folder, adding your address and phone number if you'd like to receive our church newsletter or a pastoral call. When we pray the Lord's Prayer at Bethel, we say "sins...sin against us" rather than "debts..." or "trespasses..."; during "a time for sharing" we welcome prayer requests from the congregation. On first Sundays each month, all who put their trust in Christ and who have received baptism in any Christian church are invited to share his sacred meal. We are glad you are with us. Please come again.
THE SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
January 23, 2005
GREETING, WORDS OF WELCOME, RITUAL OF FRIENDSHIP AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
PRELUDE
CHORAL CALL TO WORSHIP We Come To Worship Quartet
CALL TO WORSHIP
Know that the Lord is God. It is he that made us, and we are his.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise.
Give thanks to hm, bless his name. For the Lord is good;
His steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
PRAYER OF THE DAY
*HYMN # 285 God, You Spin the Whirling Planets Austrian Hymn
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Creator God, you promised through your prophets long ago, that all people in the world will come to praise you. Forgive us for being so limited in our attitudes and practices, when you are so generous in yours. Save us from the pride of race and culture that becomes arrogance; for using our values and achievements as things to be worshiped; for loyalty to our own kind that leads to looking down on those different from ourselves. Help us, we pray, to live as Jesus intended us to live, beyond the barriers that divide, in a new unity of all humankind. Amen.
*ASSURANCE OF PARDON
Hear the good news! This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. If we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. Believe this good news:
In Jesus Christ we are forgiven!
*CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE Gloria Patri Hymn # 579
OLD TESTAMENT LESSON Psalm 27:1,4-9
A MOMENT WITH THE CHILDREN
Kathy Banker
NEW TESTAMENT LESSON Matthew 4:18-22
SERMON Keeping the Main Thing - The Main Thing
The Reverend Marc Sherrod, ThD
*HYMN # 387 Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us Bradbury
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH – the Apostles’ Creed (Traditional)
I believe in God, the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty, from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.
PRAYER CONCERNS AND A TIME FOR SHARING
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & THE LORD’S PRAYER
DEDICATION OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS
*DOXOLOGY AND PRAYER OF DEDICATION
*HYMN #523 God the Spirit, Guide and Guardian (Vs. 1&2) Bethany
SERVICE OF ORDINATION AND INSTALLATION
*HYMN # 523 God the Spirit, Guide and Guardian (Vs. 3&4) Bethany
*BLESSING FOR THE MEAL
*CHORAL RESPONSE May The Peace Of God Be With Us Quartet
*POSTLUDE
*All who are able may stand.
Bethel offers Sunday school for children and four educational opportunities for adults at 9:45 AM. Childcare (babies and preschool age) is offered at 9:45 and 11 AM. Restrooms are located in our Educational Building, first floor and lower level. Ushers can provide large print hymnbooks and activity sheets for children.
Flowers are given by Carole Jane Row’s family to the glory of God and in celebration of her life and faith.
The Liturgist today is Anita Richmond.
Our Ushers/Greeters are Henry and Carolyn Tulley.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Congregational Meeting - Today in the Fellowship Hall after church to hear annual reports, elect congregational members to the nominating committee, and vote on changes to pastor’s term of call. We will have a Chili & Hot Dog dinner prepared as a fundraiser for the Roane County Cooperative Ministries. All donations welcomed.
We welcome as servant-leaders of the church those who are being ordained and installed as elders today in the class of 2007: Amber Jacks, Laura Dailey, Carolyn McNew, and Denise Martin. Alf Rybka will be installed. Thank you to elders rotating off the session: Karen Schall, Nancy King, Debbie Hyder, Margaret Murr, Chuck Bunch and Jack Stackpole who has resigned for health reason. A hearty thanks to all of you!
Next Sunday at 9:00AM in the sanctuary all are invited to our 5th Sunday Healing and Wholeness Service led by the Parish Nurse and Pastor.
The Rea Circle will meet tonight 6:00 P.M. in the choir room.
Newsletter deadline is January 31st.
Maryville College February Meetings:
TUE - Feb. 15
12:25PM - The Face of God - David Young - Center for Campus Ministry
7:00 PM - Around the World w/Faces & Places- David Young -
Maryville College - Fine Arts Center-Music Hall
WED - Feb, 16 Maryville College - Fine Arts Center - Music Hall
11:00AM - Crossing Borders In Faith - Rick Ufford-Chase, Moderator, PCUSA General Assembly
7:00PM - Crossing Borders In Service - Rick Ufford-Chase
For additional information contact Anne McKee at 865-981-8298 or maryvillecollege.edu
| PLEASE PRAY FOR: George Standridge (Father of Kathy Francis & David Standridge), Gale King, Kay Michener, Christine Woods, Al & Dot Davis, Justin Winsbro, Ruth Moutoux, Susan Todd |
THIS WEEK
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY: BODY RECALL – 9-10 AM
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BELLS – 5:30 PM
ALPHA – 6:30 PM
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