2021-10-24

Partners in the Gospel, and Generosity

  • Prelude
  • Welcome | Announcements
      • Today | 1:00 – 3:00 pm | Trunk or Treat
      • November 14 | Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes | Filled shoe boxes due back | Cost to ship is $9, CC team covering $5
      • November 24 | 7:00 pm | Thanksgiving Eve Service
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – 2 Corinthians 8:1-5
      • 1 We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,
      • 2 for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.
      • 3 For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord,
      • 4 begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints –
      • 5 and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us.
  • Reading – [2 Corinthians 9:6-12 ESV]
      • 6 The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
      • 7 Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
      • 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
      • 9 As it is written, “He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.”
      • 10 He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
      • 11 You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
      • 12 For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.
  • Worship Hymns
      • UMH 707 – Hymn of Promise
      • UMH 348 – Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling
      • Video – Here I am to Worship
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
      • TFWS 2055 – You Are My Hiding Place
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “Partners in the Gospel, and Generosity” – Philippians 4:14-23
  • Closing Hymn
      • UMH 701 – When We All Get to Heaven
  • Benediction
  • Postlude