New Hope United Methodist Church Welcome to New Hope United Methodist Church August 30, 2015

Announcements Today: Youth Group, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday: Admin Council, 7 pm, Upstairs Sunday: Informal Worship 8 am/Traditional Worship 10

Meditation Renew your church, Lord, your people in this land. Hymnal # 574 Renew your church, Lord, your people in this land. Save us from cheap words and self-deception in your service. In the power of your Spirit transform us, and shape us by your cross. Amen.

Musical Prelude Bringing in the Light of Christ

Call to Worship One: Come let us walk in the light! Many: Let us glorify God who shines a light into our darkness and brings hope and grace.

Opening Hymn God of Grace Hymnal # 577 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

God of grace and God of glory On Thy people pour Thy power Crown Thine ancient church's story Bring her bud to glorious flower Grant us wisdom, grant us courage For the facing of this hour For the facing of this hour

Lo the hosts of evil 'round us Scorn Thy Christ, assail His ways From the fears that long have bound us Free our hearts to faith and praise Grant us wisdom, grant us courage For the living of these days For the living of these days

Cure Thy children's warring madness Bend our pride to Thy control Shame our wanton selfish gladness Rich in things and poor in soul Grant us wisdom, grant us courage Lest we miss Thy kingdom's goal Lest we miss Thy kingdom's goal

Save us from weak resignation To the evils we deplore Let the gift of Thy salvation Be our glory evermore Grant us wisdom, grant us courage Serving Thee Whom we adore Serving Thee Whom we adore

Lord, we confess our day to day failure to be truly human. Opening Prayer Based upon Hymn 93 Lord, we confess our day to day failure to be truly human. Lord, we confess to you. Lord, we confess that we often fail to love with all we have and are, often because we do not fully understand what loving means, often because we are afraid of risking ourselves. Lord, we cut ourselves off from each other and we erect barriers of division.

Lord we confess that by silence and ill-considered word Opening Prayer Based upon Hymn 93 Lord we confess that by silence and ill-considered word We have built up walls of prejudice. Lord we confess that by selfishness and lack of sympathy We have stifled generosity and left little time for others. Holy Spirit, speak to us. Help us listen to your word of forgiveness, for we are very deaf. Come, fill this moment and free us from sin. Amen.

Children’s Time Teresa Landon

“Down to the River to Pray” Special Music “Down to the River to Pray” Smiths, Morris & Jett

Offering Our Gifts to God

Alleluia Praise Response Hymnal #94 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

from whom all blessings flow; praise God, all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God, the source of all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ, whose power up lifts! Praise the Spirit! Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Joys and Concerns Prayers of the People Silent Prayer

Hymnal #895 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

on earth as it is in Heaven. Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

And forgive us our trespasses, Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

Gloria Patria Hymnal #70 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

as it was in the beginning, Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.

We Shall Overcome Hymnal #533 We shall overcome, We shall overcome, We shall overcome someday! Oh, deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome someday! Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

We Shall Overcome Hymnal #533 We'll walk hand in hand, we'll walk hand in hand, We'll walk hand in hand someday!. Oh, deep in my heart I do believe, we'll walk hand in hand someday!

We Shall Overcome Hymnal #533 We shall all be free, We shall all be free someday!. Oh, deep in my heart I do believe, We shall all be free someday!

We Shall Overcome Hymnal #533 We shall live in peace, We shall live in peace someday!. Oh, deep in my heart I do believe, We shall live in peace someday! 5 The Lord will see us through.

The Lord will see us through, We Shall Overcome Hymnal #533 The Lord will see us through, The Lord will see us through someday!. Oh, deep in my heart I do believe, The Lord will see us through someday!

Scripture Reading I John 1:7-10 7but 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. 8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Scripture Reading Romans 6:1-18 1What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? 2By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

Scripture Reading Romans 6:1-18 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. 7For whoever has died is freed from sin. 8But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again;

Scripture Reading Romans 6:1-18 death no longer has dominion over him. 10The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. 13No longer present your members to sin as instruments* of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been

Scripture Reading Romans 6:1-18 brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments* of righteousness. 14For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. 15What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of

Scripture Reading Romans 6:1-18 obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, 18and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

Sermon The Nature of Sin; The Power of Grace Ted Smith

The World Methodist Social Affirmation Affirmation of Faith The World Methodist Social Affirmation Hymnal #886 We believe in God, creator of the world and of all people;   and in Jesus Christ, incarnate among us, who died and rose again;  and in the Holy Spirit,  present with us to guide, strengthen, and comfort. We believe; God, help our unbelief. Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

Affirmation of Faith We rejoice in every sign of God's kingdom:   in the upholding of human dignity and community;  in every expression of love, justice, and reconciliation;       in each act of self-giving on behalf of others;       in the abundance of God's gifts       entrusted to us that all may have enough;       in all responsible use of the earth's resources. Glory be to God on high; and on earth, peace.

Affirmation of Faith We confess our sin, individual and collective,    by silence or action:       through the violation of human dignity          based on race, class, age, sex, nation, or faith;       through the exploitation of people          because of greed and indifference;       through the misuse of power          in personal, communal, national, and international life;       through the search for security          by those military and economic forces          that threaten human existnce;       through the abuse of technology          which endangers the earth and all life upon it. Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy; Lord, have mercy. We commit ourselves individually and as a community    to the way of Christ:       to take up the cross;       to seek abundant life for all humanity;       to struggle for peace with justice and freedom;       to risk ourselves in faith, hope, and love,          praying that God's kingdom may come. Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.

Affirmation of Faith We confess our sin, individual and collective,    by silence or action:       through the violation of human dignity          based on race, class, age, sex, nation, or faith;       through the exploitation of people          because of greed and indifference;       through the misuse of power          in personal, communal, national, and international life;       through the search for security          by those military and economic forces          that threaten human existence;

Affirmation of Faith       through the abuse of technology          which endangers the earth and all life upon it. Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy; Lord, have mercy.

Affirmation of Faith We commit ourselves individually and as a community    to the way of Christ:       to take up the cross;       to seek abundant life for all humanity;       to struggle for peace with justice and freedom;       to risk ourselves in faith, hope, and love,          praying that God's kingdom may come. Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.

Victory in Jesus Hymnal # 370 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

I heard an old, old story, How a Savior came from glory, How He gave His life on Calvary To save a wretch like me; I heard about His groaning, Of His precious blood's atoning, Then I repented of my sins And won the victory.

O victory in Jesus, My Savior, forever O victory in Jesus, My Savior, forever. He sought me and bought me With His redeeming blood; He loved me ere I knew Him And all my love is due Him, He plunged me to victory, Beneath the cleansing flood.

I heard about His healing, Of His cleansing pow'r revealing I heard about His healing, Of His cleansing pow'r revealing. How He made the lame to walk again And caused the blind to see; And then I cried, "Dear Jesus, Come and heal my broken spirit," And somehow Jesus came and bro't To me the victory.

O victory in Jesus, My Savior, forever O victory in Jesus, My Savior, forever. He sought me and bought me With His redeeming blood; He loved me ere I knew Him And all my love is due Him, He plunged me to victory, Beneath the cleansing flood.

I heard about a mansion He has built for me in glory I heard about a mansion He has built for me in glory. And I heard about the streets of gold Beyond the crystal sea; About the angels singing, And the old redemption story, And some sweet day I'll sing up there The song of victory. Chorus O victory in Jesus, My Savior, forever. He sought me and bought me With His redeeming blood; He loved me ere I knew Him And all my love is due Him, He plunged me to victory, Beneath the cleansing flood.

O victory in Jesus, My Savior, forever O victory in Jesus, My Savior, forever. He sought me and bought me With His redeeming blood; He loved me ere I knew Him And all my love is due Him, He plunged me to victory, Beneath the cleansing flood.

Please join us for refreshments in the hospitality room. Benediction Please join us for refreshments in the hospitality room.