Sunday worship 14th January 2024 @ 11:00 at St Johns York Rooms “Let's do church”
Order of service 14th of January 2024 “Let’s do church”
Welcome – Keith
Call to worship Ephesians 2: 19 – 22
“Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.”
Opening prayer – Sharon
Hymn O praise the name
Sermon in the sack – Juliette & Lucyanna
Hymn Glorious day
Open prayer
Lord’s prayer – Hazel
Hymn Be Thou my vision
Collection taken during the Hymn – Anne & Marguerite
Prayers of thanks – Darrel
Notices
Sunday morning worship 21st of January 2024 Café Church @ 11:00, all welcome
Bible Study 18th of January 2024 in the Manse
Prayer meeting, 18th of January @10:00 on Zoom and in the Manse
Prayer walk 19th January @ 10:00 meeting at the old church building
Serving refreshments this morning Alison & Gwen
Church website address https://www.hurstgreen-fellowship.org
Pastors email address hgecpastor@outlook.com
Reading 1 Corinthians 12: 12 – 27
“Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honourable we treat with special honour. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honour to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honoured, every part rejoices with it.
Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.” – Patricia
Hymn How Great
Thought “Let’s do church”
Hymn How great Thou art
Blessing
“‘“May the Lord bless you
and keep you;
may the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
may the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”’
Grace – Steve