Mill Plain UMC, Christ Embodied In Us January 30,2022
Live stream with pastor Sue Ostrom
Accompanied by worship assistant Jess Lederman
Accompanist Andrea Llafet
Mill Plain UMC 10 a.m.,
Sunday, January 23, 2022
Songs
That’s Why We Praise Him
Fortune Cookie Faith
We are God’s People
The Churches One Foundation
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Mill Plain UMC
Sunday January 30, 2022
Prelude
Welcome Announcements
Greeting
Worship Assistant: The heavens are telling the glory of God.
People: Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of it.
Worship Assistant: Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge.
People: If one member suffers, all suffer together with it. If one member rejoices, all rejoice together with it.
Opening Prayer
Holy One, you have called us into your church and through your Holy Spirit given us different gifts to use for the common good. Help us each to claim the gifts you have given to us that we may use them, not for our own glory, but for yours. In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, we pray. Amen.
Young Disciples Moment
Song That’s Why We Praise Him
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Lord’s prayer
Offerings
Doxology
Song Fortune Cookie Faith
Scripture
I Corinthians 12:12-31
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many members, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and those members of the body that we think less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect; whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
Song: We Are God’s People
Message Christ Embodied in Us
Prayer O God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. Save the community of your people from cowardly surrender to the world, from rendering unto Caesar what belongs to you, and from forgetting the eternal gospel amid the temporal pressures of our troubled days. for the unity of the Church we pray, and for fellowship across the embittered lines of race and nation; to growth in grace, building in love, enlargement in service, increase in wisdom, faith, charity, and power, we dedicate our lives; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen (reprinted from The United Methodist Book of Worship, copyright 1992, by permission of The United Methodist Publishing House
Song Many Gifts, One Spirit #114 OR The Church’s One Foundation #545
Benediction
Therefore beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, for you know that in the Lord, your labor is not in vain.