February 25 Service
Groveport UMC, Groveport Ohio
Rick Birk, Pastor
WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
BREAKTHROUGH PRAYER: Amazing God, We pray that through the Holy Spirit Your preferred future for Groveport United Methodist Church will be made clear to us. Give us the courage we need to follow You wherever You may take us. We ask that You bind us together in love so that we can bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to our friends, families, and community. Open our eyes so that we may see the amazing things You are already doing among us. AMEN.
PRELUDE “The Servant Song”
LIGHTING OF THE ALTAR CANDLES
*OPENING MUSIC “Here I Am, Lord” #593
CALL TO WORSHIP:
Give thanks to the Lord because he is good, because his faithful love lasts forever. “God’s faithful love lasts forever!”
In tight circumstances, I cried out to the Lord. The Lord answered me with wide-open spaces. “God’s faithful love lasts forever!” The Lord is for me— I won’t be afraid. What can anyone do to me? “God’s faithful love lasts forever!” I was pushed so hard I nearly died, but the Lord helped me.
“God’s faithful love lasts forever!” It’s far better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust any human. “God’s faithful love lasts forever!” The stone rejected by the builders is now the main foundation stone! “God’s faithful love lasts forever!” This is the day the Lord acted; we will rejoice and celebrate in it! “God’s faithful love lasts forever!”
HYMN “Fairest Lord Jesus” #189
FIRST SCRIPTURE READING: Proverbs 3:5-6
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH:
By faith we believe in creation, that God set this world in motion. By faith we believe in salvation, that Jesus died for us that we might live. By faith we believe in eternity, that we will one day live forever with our Savior.
We did not see the creation or the crucifixion, and we have yet to taste the glory of eternity. Though we have not seen, by faith we believe.
OUR TIME OF PRAYER
HYMN “Sanctuary”
THE LORD’S PRAYER
OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS “How Beautiful”
*DOXOLOGY
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
CHILDREN’S MOMENTS
SECOND SCRIPTURE READING: Mark 14:32-52
SERMON “Keep Watch”
CLOSING HYMN “Shout to the Lord”
*BENEDICTION
*SENDING FORTH “Go Now in Peace”
POSTLUDE “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”
