2023-01-29

Which Church Are We? (Part 3)

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Feb 4 @ 8am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Feb 7 @ 7pm – Feed My Starving Children
    • Feb 22 @ 5:30pm – Soup and Bread Supper
    • Feb 22 @ 7pm – Ash Wednesday Service
    • Mar 1 – Heifer Project Deadline
  • Prelude
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – UMH 677 – Listen, Lord (A Prayer)
    • O Lord, we come this morning knee-bowed and body-bent before thy throne of grace.
    • O Lord – this morning – bow our hearts beneath our knees, and our knees in some lonesome valley.
    • We come this morning like empty pitchers to a full fountain, with no merits of our own.
    • O Lord, open up a window of heaven, and lean out far over the battlements of glory, and listen this morning.
    • Amen.
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 507 – Through It All
    • Blessed Be Your Name – © 2002 Thankyou Music
    • UMH 362 – Nothing but the Blood
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • UMH 496 – Sweet Hour of Prayer
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “Which Church Are We?” (Part 3) – [Revelation 2:18-29 ESV]
    • 18 “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
    • 19 “‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
    • 20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
    • 21 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
    • 22 Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,
    • 23 and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.
    • 24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden.
    • 25 Only hold fast what you have until I come.
    • 26 The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,
    • 27 and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.
    • 28 And I will give him the morning star.
    • 29 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 469 – Jesus is All the World to Me v 1-2
  • Benediction
  • Postlude