Mill Plain UMC
April 21, 2024
Gifts of Nurture
Music
Here I am to Worship
A Million Saints
Bigger Table
O Church of God United
Blest be the Dear Uniting Love
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Mill Plain UMC
April 21 2024
10:00 am
April 21th ,2024
10 a.m.
Greeting Each Other 60 second timer
Praise Song Here I am to worship
Greetings
Call to Worship
Worship Assistant Maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace:
People: One Lord, one faith, one baptism.
Worship Assistant Lead a life worthy of your calling:
People: One Lord one faith, one baptism, one God of us all who is above all and through all and in all
Opening Prayer
Creator God, you spoke the universe into being and called it good.
Jesus, you came to us as one of us that we might know the depth of your love.
Spirit of Grace, you come to us each day and fill us with your gifts.
Triune God, grant that we may use these gifts to build up your Church until all come to the unity of the faith and grow up into your image. Amen.
Praise Songs A million saints
Bigger Table
Young Disciples Moment
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Lord’s Prayer
Offertory
Presentation of Offerings
Doxology
Acts 6:1-6
Now during those days, when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists complained against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food. And the twelve called together the whole community of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables. Therefore, friends, select from among yourselves seven men of good standing, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint to this task, while we, for our part, will devote ourselves to prayer and to serving the word.” What they said pleased the whole community, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, together with Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. They had these men stand before the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them.
Ephesians 4:7-16
But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore, it is said, “When he ascended on high he made captivity itself a captive; he gave gifts to his people.” (When it says, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is the same one who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things.) The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ. We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming. But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body’s growth in building itself up in love.
Hymn O Church of God United #547
Sermon Gift of Outreach
Prayer
Loving God, we long to discern your will.
Jesus, we strive to unite with others in your body on earth today.
Holy Spirit, renew our minds and transform us by your grace. Amen.
Hymn Blest Be the Dear Uniting Love #566
Benediction
Go into the world as a living sacrifice to God, for you have been transformed. The love of God, the grace of Jesus Christ, and the presence of the Holy Spirit be with you. Amen.