Posted on May 25, 2024 in Bulletin |
The Send Off
- Welcome | Announcements
- Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
- July 14 – Church Picnic
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 ESV
- 13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
- 14 Let all that you do be done in love.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 697 – America (My Country, ‘Tis of Thee)
- TFWS 2191 – Eternal Father, Strong to Save
- TFWS 2071 – Jesus, Name above All Names
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 700 – Abide with Me v 1, 3, 5
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “The Send Off” – [Acts 13:1-12 ESV]
- 1 Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
- 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
- 3 Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
- 4 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.
- 5 When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John to assist them.
- 6 When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.
- 7 He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.
- 8 But Elymas the magician (for that is the meaning of his name) opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
- 9 But Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him
- 10 and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?
- 11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time.” Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.
- 12 Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had occurred, for he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 717 – The Battle Hymn of the Republic v 1, 2, 3
- Choral Anthem
- Benediction
- Postlude