Sunday Morning Worship Service
October 17, 2004
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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
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
October 17, 2004
GREETING, WORDS OF WELCOME, RITUAL OF FRIENDSHIP AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
The whole earth is full of God’s glory.
PRELUDE Cleanse Me M. Melody
CALL TO WORSHIP – Psalm 119
Oh, how I love your law! It is my meditation all day long.
Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is always with me.
I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your decrees are my meditation.
I understand more than the aged. How sweet are your words to my taste.
Let us worship God!
PRAYER OF THE DAY
*HYMN # 487 When Morning Gilds the Skies Laudes Domini
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION
O God, our Judge and Redeemer, we confess that we have failed in our ministry to others. We listen for teachings to our own liking. We yearn for doctrines that boost our egos. We follow those who flatter us. We seek comfort and not challenge from our confessions of faith. Renew a right Spirit within us, O God, and train us in righteousness as you forgive our sin. Amen.
*ASSURANCE OF PARDON
Brothers and sisters, “continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” For the truth of the gospel abides.
In Jesus Christ we are forgiven!
*CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE Gloria Patri Hymn # 579
OLD TESTAMENT LESSON Jeremiah 31:27-34
A MOMENT WITH THE CHILDREN OF THE CHURCH
NEW TESTAMENT LESSON II Timothy 3:14 - 4:5
SERMON Holy Writ
Rev. Marc Sherrod, ThD
*HYMN # 327 O Word of God Incarnate Munich
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH – from “the Confession of 1967"
The one sufficient revelation of God is Jesus Christ, the Word of God incarnate, to whom the Holy Spirit bears unique and authoritative witness through the Holy Scriptures, which are received and obeyed as the word of God written. . . . The Bible is to be interpreted in the light of its witness to God’s work of reconciliation in Christ. The Scriptures, given under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, are nevertheless the words of human beings, conditioned by the language, thought forms, and literary fashions of the places and times at which they were written. . . .As God has spoken his word in diverse cultural situations, the church is confident that God will continue to speak through the Scriptures in a changing world and in every form of human culture. God’s word is spoken to the church today where the Scriptures are faithfully preached and attentively read in dependence on the illumination of the Holy Spirit and with readiness to receive their truth and direction. Amen.
SPECIAL MUSIC Why Me, Lord Kristofferson
Phil Walsh
PRAYER CONCERNS AND A TIME FOR SHARING
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & THE LORD’S PRAYER
DEDICATION OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS
OFFERTORY Cares Chorus K. Willard
*DOXOLOGY AND PRAYER OF DEDICATION
*HYMN # 324 Open My Eyes That I May See Open My Eyes
*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
*CHOIR RESPONSE The Lord Bless You and Keep You
*POSTLUDE Awakening Chorus
*All who are able may stand.
This worship service is broadcast on WKTS 90.1 FM at 12:30 p.m. today.
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.
The flowers today are given by Doug & Carol Brown.
The Liturgist today is Mary B. Hines.
Our Ushers/Greeters are Joan Thompson & Helene Ricker.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
SPECIAL THANK YOU to Ruth Ann Ludwig, pianist for today.
CLOTHING DRIVE – Winter coats & clothes & shoes may be brought to the Lounge to be taken to Sunset Gap later this month.
ALPHA will not meet this week.
READING ROCKS – The daughter of Amy and Joe Coen is collecting new or gently used books for the Women’s Shelter in Roane County and for the Head Start Program. Girl Scout Troop 435 is participating in a READING ROCKS community service project to supply books for children ages 6 months to 14 years old and for women served by the shelter and Head Start. A box will be available during October for collecting the books. The Coens' daughter will also carry a bag during October if you wish to give them to her personally. Please help support the love of books and improving literacy.
YOUTH GROUP will meet at 6:00 p.m. this evening at Denise Martin’s to see the movie “Whalerider.” The address is 102 Meadowview Dr., Kingston, TN.
| PLEASE PRAY FOR: Jerry Morris, Doris Barber, Ginny Warlick, Carol Jane Row, Tora Phillips, Fred Meers, Christine Woods, Al & Dot Davis, Ivy Basalone, Mary Sykes, Justin Winsbro, Ruth Moutoux, Susan Todd, Presbyterian Churches & Pastors- Harriman First & Huntsville First (Martha Anne Fairchild) |
THIS WEEK
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY: BODY RECALL – 9-10 AM
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GIFTS DISCERNMENT INITIATIVE – 7:00 PM
STEWARDSHIP & FINANCE COMMITTEE – 7:00 PM
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NO ALPHA |
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HANDBELLS – 5:30 PM
PROPERTY & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE MEETING – 5:30 PM
FAMILY NIGHT DINNER – 6:30 PM
CHOIR – 7:00 PM
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GET FIT, ROANE COUNTY – 6:30 PM |
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