Sunday worship 28th of April 2024 @ 11:00 at St Johns York Rooms “The most excellent way!”
Order of service 28th of April 2024 “The most excellent way!”
Welcome – Keith
Birthday – Dannii
Call to worship 1 Peter 4: 8 – 11
“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.”
Opening prayer – Sharon
Hymn Before the throne above
Sermon in the sack – Jonathan
Hymn Take my life and let it be – Cynthia
Open prayer – all
Hymn Be Thou my vision Collection taken during the hymn by Julietta & Lucy-anna.
Prayers of thanks – Lisa
Notices -
Bible Study, 1st of May @ 11:00 in the Manse
Prayer meeting, 2nd of May @ 10:00 on Zoom and in the Manse.
Bible Study, 2nd of May @ 11:00 in the Manse
Prayer walk 3rd of May @ 10:00 meeting at the old church building.
Church website address https://www.hurstgreen-fellowship.org
Pastors email address hgecpastor@outlook.com
Reading 1 Corinthians 13: 1 – 13
“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” – Deidre
Hymn Not I but Christ in me
Thought “The most excellent way!”
Hymn Build you Kingdom here
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 – Alison