WELCOME TO WORSHIP!
“TO YOU, O GOD, FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT, MY CREATOR, REDEEMER, AND SANCTIFIER, I GIVE MYSELF ENTIRELY.
MAY I NO LONGER SERVE MYSELF, BUT YOU ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE.”
(JOHN WESLEY, 1733)
Hymn
# 57 O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (verses 1, 2)
1. O for a thousand tongues to sing my great redeemers
praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his
grace!
2. My gracious master and my God, assist me to proclaim, to
spread through all the earth abroad the honors of thy
name.
CALL TO WORSHIP
One: Where the Spirit of the Lord is,
There is the one true church, apostolic and universal, whose holy faith let us
now declare
People:
We believe in God the Father, infinite in wisdom, power, and love, whose
mercy is over all his works, and whose will is ever directed to his children’s
good.
We believe in Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of man, the gift of the
Father’s unfailing grace, the ground of our hope, and the promise of our
deliverance from sin and death.
We believe in the Holy Spirit as the divine presence in our lives, whereby we
are kept in perpetual remembrance of the truth of Christ, and find strength
and help in time of need.
We believe that this faith should manifest itself in the service of love as set
forth in the example of our blessed Lord, to the end that the kingdom of God
may come upon the earth. Amen
HYMN
# 57 O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Verses 3,4)
3. Jesus! The name that charms our fears, that bids our
sorrows cease; tis music in the sinners ears, tis life, and
health, and peace.
4. He breaks the power of canceled sin, he sets the prisoner
free; his blood can make the foulest clean; his blood
availed for me.
OPENING PRAYER
(Unison)
Lord, may the words we have just spoken be written on
our hearts and lived in our daily lives. Amen.
TIME WITH THE CHILDREN
LISTEN
PRAY
SHARE
LOVE
PRAYER’S OF THE PEOPLE
Pastors Prayer
OUR LORDS 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, the power and
the glory. Forever and ever. Amen.
HYMN
The Family Prayer
1. Come and fill our homes with your presence; you alone are
worthy of our reverence.
(Chorus) As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. As for
me and my house, we will serve the Lord. As for me and my
house we will serve the Lord. We will serve the Lord.
2. Lord we vow to live holy, bowing our knees to you only.
(Chorus) As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. As for
me and my house, we will serve the Lord. As for me and my
house we will serve the Lord. We will serve the Lord.
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
(Unison)
God, pour your love into our hearts through the Holy
Spirit that has been given to us, who love the Lord our
God with all our hearts, and with all our souls, and
with all our minds, and with all our strength.
SCRIPTURE
Galatians 5: 1, 13-25
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of
slavery.
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the
flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You
shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out
that you are not consumed by one another.
Keep in Step with the Spirit
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the
flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are
opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by
the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual
immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger,
rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy,[a] drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn
you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of
God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ
Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
SERMON
“The Method, The Movement”
“Do all the good you can. By all means you can. In all the ways you
can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the
people you can. As long as ever you can.”
Methodist was never meant to be a religion.
It began as a method for living.
It spread not as a religion but a movement.
Today I am going to share with you “the method and the movement”.
“Now that Jesus has died for our sins, are there any commitments to
right living we need to keep?”
Are there any means of grace?
SERMON
Yes, there are ways of Christian living into the grace of God.
Read and study the bible everyday
Pray in private and in the congregation
Take part in the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper regularly
Fast periodically- from food to remember the hungry, from speaking
to practice humility, from recreation to remember that our goal is to
save souls.
Engage in Works of Piety and Acts of Mercy
The movement began as a small group of people who wanted to live
a more holy life.
SERMON
As they lived more holy lives with each other, other people took
notice.
Others witnessing the power of the Holy Spirit in the lives of the
Holy Club wanted to follow their example.
The original Holy Club members started up new groups
The groups grew into classes and societies.
The movement of the method spread as a movement all across
Great Britain, even across the Atlantic Ocean to the American
Colonies
SERMON
The Method and the Movement are the work of God’s Grace in
our lives through the presence of the Holy Spirit.
The goal of the Method and the Movement is the salvation of
souls for the kingdom of Christ.
If you long to live a more holy life, to deepen you relationship to
God, to live in the Holy Spirit:
Read and search the scriptures everyday
Pray privately and with others
Share your longing for spiritual growth with others
SERMON
Invite them to join you and help each other
Personally and as a group confess your sins; forgive each other in
the name of God; help each other to change; engage in works of
piety and acts if mercy.
As Wesley put it: “Do all the good you can. By all means you can.
In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times
you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.”
OFFERTORY PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
(Unison)
O God, Accept these offerings as tokens of our
commitment to be stewards, not proprietors of the
resources you have given us, to give in obedience to
your word as a sacrifice to you through Jesus Christ in
whose name we pray. Amen
HYMN
#57 O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Verses 5,7)
5. He speaks, and listening to his voice, new life the
dead receive; the mournful, broken hearts rejoice, the
humble poor believe.
7. In Christ, your head, you then shall know, shall feel
your sins forgiven; anticipate your heaven below, and
own that love is heaven.