September 17 Worship 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 “God So Loved the World”
LIGHTING OF THE ALTAR CANDLES
*OPENING MUSIC “God of Grace and God of Glory” #577
CALL TO WORSHIP:
Our help is in God, who calls us to worship. Our hope is in love, that calls us to care. Come, let us bring our full selves to worship. Let us bring our full love and care.
HYMN “In His Time”
FIRST SCRIPTURE READING Colossians 1:15-23
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For in him all things in heaven and on earth were created: things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers; all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to
reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
HYMN “Glory Be to the Father” #70
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM / RECEPTION OF NEW MEMBERS
OUR TIME OF PRAYER (During our time of prayer, the altar rail is open for all who wish to come forward.)
HYMN “Sanctuary”
THE LORD’S PRAYER
CHILDREN’S MOMENTS
OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me”
*DOXOLOGY
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
SECOND SCRIPTURE READING Matthew 16:13-24
SERMON “Who Am I?”
*BENEDICTION
*SENDING FORTH “As We Go”
POSTLUDE “Higher Ground”
