1. New Hope United Methodist Church
Welcome to
New Hope United Methodist Church
September 17th, 2017

2. Announcements Today, Preschool Choir, 11:15, RM 11
Young Adults, 11:15, RM6
Tuesday, Bible Study, Mathew, 11am, RM2
Wednesday, Chimes, 6:10 pm, Sanctuary
Choir, 7pm, Sanctuary
Thursday, Craft Time, 6:30pm
Fall Festival: September 30th, 11am-2:30pm

3. To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus
*Meditation
I Corinthians 1:2 – 3 NIV
To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus
and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere
who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

4. Bringing in the Light of Christ
Musical Prelude
Bringing in the Light of Christ

5. Come, Christians, Praise the Lord
Introit
Come, Christians, Praise the Lord
(Hal Hopson)
Choir

6. One: Thank God! God’s love has given us Christ Jesus!
*Call to Worship
Based on I Corinthians 1
One: Thank God! God’s love has given us Christ Jesus!
Many: Testify to God’s goodness and lift high the name of Jesus.
All: Come, join in the fellowship in the name of our Lord Jesus. Christ, being united in mind and thought and voice.

7. God of Love and God of Power (Verse 1)
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WORDS: Gerald H. Kennedy, ca. 1939
1. God of love and God of power, grant us in this burning hour

8. grace to ask these gifts of thee, daring hearts and spirits free.

9. God of love and God of power, thou hast called us for this hour.

10. God of Love and God of Power (Verse 2)
2. We are not the first to be banished by our fears from thee;

11. give us courage, let us hear heaven’s trumpets ringing clear.

12. God of love and God of power, thou hast called us for this hour.

13. God of Love and God of Power (Verse 3)
3. All our lives belong to thee, thou our final loyalty;

14. slaves are we whene’er we share that devotion anywhere.

15. God of love and God of power, thou hast called us for this hour.

16. God of Love and God of Power (Verse 4)
4. God of love and God of power, make us worthy of this hour;

17. offering lives if it’s thy will, keeping free our spirits still.

18. God of love and God of power, thou hast called us for this hour.

19. *Opening Prayer
Based I Corinthians 2
Lord Jesus, we come to you like Paul, not with eloquence or superior wisdom, praying that you would help us bear witness and testify to Your love seen in the life, death, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. May your Spirit’s power move so that our faith rests on you alone. Reveal to us, by your Spirit, your love and hope. Search us. We open our hearts and lives to you that we might have the very mind of Christ. Amen.

20. Anthem
Forever
(Chris Tomlin)
Choir

21. Children’s Time

22. Offering Our Gifts to God

23. Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow94
WORDS: Thomas Ken, 1674; adapt. by Gilbert H. Vieira, 1978
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia!

24. Praise God, the source of all our gifts
Praise God, the source of all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ, whose power uplifts! Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

25. The Gift of Love (Verse 1)
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WORDS: Hal Hopson, 1972 (1 Cor. 13:1-3)
1. Though I may speak with bravest fire, and have the gift to all inspire,
© 1972 Hope Publishing Co.

26. and have not love, my words are vain, as sounding brass, and hopeless gain.

27. The Gift of Love (Verse 2)
2. Though I may give all I possess, and striving so my love profess,

28. but not be given by love within, the profit soon turns strangely thin.

29. The Gift of Love (Verse 3)
3. Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control, our spirits long to be made whole.

30. Let inward love guide every deed; by this we worship, and are freed.

31. Joys and Concerns
Prayers of the People
Pastoral Prayer

32. Prayer of Confession
I Cor. 13:4-7
4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

33. Hymnal #895
Used By Permission. CCLI License #

34. 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.

35. 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.

36. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;
Glory Be to the Father WORDS: Lesser Doxology, 3rd-4th cent. 70
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;

37. as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.

38. Scripture Reading
I Corinthians 13: 8-13
8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10 but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, 

39. but then we will see face to face
but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

40. The Message

41. Lord, Speak to Me (Verse 1)
*The Servant Song
TFWS
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Brother, sister, let me serve you,
let me be as Christ to you;
pray that I may have the grace to
let you be my servant too.

42. We are pilgrims on a journey;
we’re together on this road.
We are here to help each other
walk the mile and bear the load.

43. I will hold the Christ-light for you in the night-time of your fear;
I will hold my hand out to you,
speak the peace you long to hear.

44. 4. I will weep when you are weeping;
when you laugh, I’ll laugh with you.
I will share your joy and sorrow
till we’ve seen this journey through.

45. When we sing to God in heaven, we shall find such harmony,
born of all we’ve known together
of Christ’s love and agony.

46. Lord, Speak to Me (Verse 1)
6. Brother, sister, let me serve you,
let me be as Christ to you;
pray that I may have the grace to
let you be my servant too.

47. *Benediction