Mill Plain UMC
Sunday November 5, 2023
Made Perfect Together
Scripture
Hebrews 11:32-12:2
Music
My Lighthouse
A Million Saints
When The Saints Go Marching In
Rejoice In God’s Saints
For All The Saints
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Mill Plain UMC
November 5, 2023
10 a.m.
Praise Song My Lighthouse
Greeting
Call to Worship
Worship Assistant: By faith Abraham and Sarah followed God’s call to a new land.
People: By faith we come here to worship, to praise God and listen to God’s Word.
Worship Assistant: By faith, Moses noticed the bush that burned without being consumed and heard God’s voice.
People: By faith, we carry God’s mercy into our neighborhood and live out God’s grace.
Opening Prayer
Almighty God,
you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship so that we are made perfect together. By faith lead us forward in union with those who have gone before us and with those who will follow us.
We pray in the name of Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. Amen.
Praise Songs A Million Saints
When the saints go marching in.
All Hands On Deck Moment
Young Disciples Moment
Choir Song of Fellowship
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Offertory
Presentation of Offerings
Doxology
Scripture
Hebrews 11:32-12:2
And what more should I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets— who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, in order to obtain a better resurrection. Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned to death, they were sawn in two, they were killed by the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented— of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground. Yet all these, though they were commended for their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better so that they would not, apart from us, be made perfect.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hymn Rejoice in God’s saints # 708
Sermon Made Perfect Together
Honor roll of the saints
Delores Bembenek
Lois Butterfield
Harold Campbell
Inge Dollas
Diane Erickson
Joy Gault
John Hanson
Glenda Hart
Jan Mason
Alex Olney
Gene Paxton
Gary Roberts
Richard Roettger
Kim Strobel
Evelyn Haun
Communion
The Great Thanksgiving
The Lord be with you.
AND ALSO WITH YOU.
Lift up your hearts.
WE LIFT THEM UP TO THE LORD.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
IT IS RIGHT TO GIVE OUR THANKS AND PRAISE.
Pastor Sue prays ………….
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY LORD, GOD OF POWER AND MIGHT, HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE FULL OF Y OUR GLORY.
HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST.
BLESSED IS THE ONE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST.
Lord’s Prayer
Breaking of the bread
Giving of the bread and cup
Prayer after communion
Gracious God, you come to us in bread and cup. Grant that we may carry your love into the world. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
Hymn For All the Saints #711, verses 1,4,6
Benediction
By faith go forth this day into the world, knowing that the saints cheer you on for the work of grace in this world. And the blessings of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the presence of the Holy Spirit be with you.