The More Excellent Way

The More Excellent Way

Mill Plain UMC, The More Excellent Way

Live stream with pastor Sue Ostrom
Accompanied by worship assistant Holly Lorimar
Accompanist Andrea Llafet

Mill Plain UMC 10 a.m.,
Sunday, February 6,2022

Songs
Celebrate Love
Love Divine
The Gift Of Love

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Prelude

Welcome Announcements 

Greeting

Worship Assistant: I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

People: I do not know how to speak for I am only a youth.

Worship Assistant: You shall speak whatever I command you.

People: When I was a child, I spoke like a child.

Worship Assistant: Now I have put my words in your mouth,

People: If I speak in the tongues of mortals or of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong.

Opening Prayer

Our Great Redeemer, we praise you with halting tongues and uncertain speech. We stumble over our words, groaning in our hearts and unable to express our love for you. We strive for eloquence and discover our hesitance. You call us to proclaim your Word to the Nations and we hide behind our inadequacies. Assure us, O God, that you will give us the words to use and speak through our struggles. Amen.

Young Disciples Moment

Song Celebrate Love

Silent Prayer

Pastoral Prayer

Offerings

Doxology

Old Testament

Jeremiah 1: 4-10

Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.” But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a boy’; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you, Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.” Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth; and the Lord said to me, “Now I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

New Testament

I Corinthians 13:1-13

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 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. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, 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. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Song: Love Divine, All Love’s Excelling #384

Message The More Excellent Way

The Great Thanksgiving

Pastor The Lord be with you.
People AND ALSO WITH YOU.
Pastor Lift up your hearts.
People WE LIFT THEM UP TO THE LORD.
Pastor Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People 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

Prayer 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.

Song The Gift of Love #408

Benediction

The grace of Christ attend you.
The love of God surround you.
The Holy Spirit keep you.
Abound in hope and grow in love both now and forever.
Amen