[Col 3:1-11 ESV] If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Call to Worship – UMC Hymnal 888
AFFIRMATION FROM 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-6
AND COLOSSIANS 1:15-20
Leader:
This is the good news which we have received,
in which we stand, and by which we are saved:
People:
Christ died for our sins, was buried,
was raised on the third day, and appeared first to the women,
then to Peter and the Twelve.
and then to many faithful witnesses.
We believe Jesus is the Christ, the Anointed One of God,
the firstborn of all creation, the firstborn from the dead,
in whom all things hold together,
in whom the fullness of God was pleased to dwell
by the power of the Spirit.
Christ is the head of the body, the church,
and by the blood of the cross reconciles all things to God.
Amen.
Music
UMC Hymnal: 364: Because He Lives
UMC Hymnal: 368: My Hope is Built on Nothing Less
UMC Hymnal: 367: He Touched Me
UMC Hymnal: 662: Stand Up and Bless the Lord, verses 1, 4 and 5
UMC Hymnal: 367: He Touched Me
UMC Hymnal: 662: Stand Up and Bless the Lord, verses 1, 4 and 5