Order of Worship, July 12, 2020

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Community United Methodist Church

Quincy, CA

July 12, 2020/Sixth Sunday After Pentecost

 

WELCOME EVERYONE!!   We are happy you are worshiping with us online today, wherever you are and whenever you are worshiping.  Please feel free to leave us a message or leave a comment in the video how we can best connect with you, even while physically apart.  We are a church where ALL are welcome!! 

 

Please participate as fully as you wish, or simply watch and take it all in.

FWS – The Faith We Sing (Black Hymnal)

UMH – The United Methodist Hymnal (Red Hymnal)

 

Gathering Music:              Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee – arr. Sandra Eithun

    Alice King, Piano


Welcome & Opening Prayer                                               Rev. Andrew Davis

                         

Hymn of Praise:                                                  Be Thou My Vision – FWS 451 

 

1.    Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;

Naught be all else to me, save that thou art.

Thou my best thought, by day or by night,

Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

 

2.    Be thou my wisdom, and thou my true word;

I ever with thee and thou with me, Lord;

Thou and thou only, first in my heart,

Great God of heaven, my treasures thou art.

 

3.    Great God of heaven, my victory won,

May I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heaven’s Sun!

Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,

Still be my vision, O Ruler of all.

 

Children’s Lesson:                                                                                   Ms. Elsie

                 

Scripture Lesson:                                             Romans 8: 1-11 (The Message)

1-2 With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.

3-4 God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that.

The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.

5-8 Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God’s action in them find that God’s Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn’t pleased at being ignored.

9-11 But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won’t know what we’re talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells—even though you still experience all the limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God’s terms. It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s![i]     

The Word of God for the People of God…Thanks be to God!

                                                      

Meditation:                                         “Nothing Can Separate Us: Set Your Mind”

 

Questions for Reflection this Week:

 

·      How have you experienced new life by surrendering yourself to Christ? 

·      What challenges you in admitting to God that you are helpless and in need of salvation?

 

Response:                                                                                            Spirit Song – UMH 347 

 

1.    O let the Son of God enfold you with his Spirit and his love.

Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

O give let him have the things that hold you,

And his Spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you whole.

 

Refrain:

            Jesus, O Jesus, come and fill your lambs.

            Jesus, O Jesus, come and fill your lambs.


2.    O come and sing this song of gladness as your hearts are filled with joy.Lift your hands in sweet surrender to his name.

O give him all your tears of sadness; give him all your years of pain,

And you’ll enter into life in Jesus’ name.

 

Refrain[ii]

 

Moment of Stillness/Pastoral Prayer/The Lord’s Prayer (Altogether):

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.  Amen.

 

Closing Hymn:                                                     I am Thine, o Lord – UMH 419, vs. 1&4

 

I am thine, O Lord, I have heard thy voice, and it told thy love to me;

But I long to rise in the arms of faith, and be closer drawn to thee.

 

Refrain:

            Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, 

            to the cross where thou hast died.

            Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,

            to thy precious, bleeding side.

 

There are depts of love that I cannot know till I cross the narrow sea;

There are heights of joy that I may not reach till I rest in peace with thee.

 

Refrain

                                                 

Blessing & Sending Forth

 

                                                                 UMC Mission:                                   

To Make Disciples of Jesus Christ For the Transformation of the World

 

Community UMC Mission: 

We are a Christ-centered community, joyfully committed to being His ambassadors.  In the fellowship of His love and grace, we grow in Christ through the study of God’s word, prayer and worship; living out our faith in service to others.

 

P.O. Box 766, Quincy, CA 95971

Tel/Fax (530)283-1740

email:quincyumc@sbcglobal.net

Church Website: www.quincymethodist.org

Facebook: CommunityUnitedMethodistChurchQuincy

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Please mail your tithes/offerings to the church office at the above address.  You can also set up automatic bill pay through your bank for tithes/offerings.

Please e-mail prayer requests to the church office or Pastor Andrew.  

 

Community UMC Office Hours:

Closed until further notice due to COVID-19 Precautions

 

Rev. Andrew Davis

Pastor Andrew’s E-mail: Andrew.davis@cnumc.org 

Pastor Andrew’s Google Voice Number: 530-238-5723

During the COVID-19 closure of our buildings, Pastor Andrew cannot meet in-person in most cases, but is available by phone, e-mail, or text between 10:00am-7:00pm Monday-Thursday and Saturday. He can also meet via Zoom by appointment.  Pastor Andrew will continue taking Friday off and is not available on Fridays except for emergencies.


[i] "Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group." 

[ii] “Spirit Song” words and music by John Wimber
© 1979 Mercy Publishing Co.
Used by Permission. CCLI License ##20665172

 

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