Mill Plain UMC, The Ministry of Justification
February,27 2022
Live stream with Pastor Sue Ostrom
Accompanied by worship assistant Jess Lederman
Accompanist Andrea Llafet
Mill Plain UMC 10 a.m.,
Sunday, February 27,2022
Songs
Shine Jesus Shine
O Wondrous sight #258
To God Be The Glory #98
To Make an Offering: https://millplainumc.org/giving/
Sunday February 27, 2022
Prelude
Welcome Announcements
Greeting
Call To Worship
Worship Assistant: The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom.
People: The ministry of justification abounds in glory!
Worship Assistant: With unveiled faces we see God’s glory.
People: The ministry of justification abounds in glory!
Worship Assistant: We are transformed from one degree of glory to another.
People: The ministry of justification abounds in glory!
Opening Prayer
God of glory and mercy,
before his death in shame your Son went to the mountain top and you revealed his life in glory. Where prophets witnessed to him, you proclaimed him your Son, but he returned to die among us.
Help us face evil with courage, knowing that all things, even death, are subject to your transforming power.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
(reprinted from The United Methodist Book of Worship, copyright 1992, by permission of The United Methodist Publishing House.)
Young Disciples Moment
Song Shine, Jesus, Shine,
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Lord’s prayer
Offerings
Doxology
Exodus 34:29-35
Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him. But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke with them. Afterward all the Israelites came near, and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face; but whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would take the veil off, until he came out; and when he came out, and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of his face was shining; and Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
New Testament
2 Corinthians 3:7-4:2
Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’ face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside, how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory! Indeed, what once had glory has lost its glory because of the greater glory; for if what was set aside came through glory, much more has the permanent come in glory!
Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness, not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of the glory that was being set aside. But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, that same veil is still there, since only in Christ is it set aside. Indeed, to this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds; but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.
Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart. We have renounced the shameful things that one hides; we refuse to practice cunning or to falsify God’s word; but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of God.
Song: O Wondrous Sight! O Vision Fair #258
Message: The Ministry of Justification
Prayer
By the grace of Jesus Christ, you justify us in your sight, O God. By that same grace, lead us to from condemnation of others to the ministry of justification, that we might know your glory in forgiveness and love. Amen.
Song: To God Be the Glory #98
Benediction
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and the love of God,
and the power of the Holy Spirit be with you. Amen.