September 28, 2026
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Sept. 28, 2026 Livestream Worship Online Bulletin
Bringing in the Light of Christ
Chiming of the Trinity
Prelude
For the Healing of the Nations arr. James Koerts
Welcome
Call to Worship
We come from different experiences and bring different ways of seeing the world.
Yet God still calls us into community.
Sometimes our differences delight us.
Sometimes they challenge us.
Sometimes we understand each other easily.
Sometimes love requires patience, listening, courage, and work.
Christ calls us to look beyond our own interests—
and to make room for the lives and needs of others.
So, we come to learn the way of Christ again:
humility instead of pride, curiosity instead of judgment, and love made visible through the way we live together.
Hymn
God the Spirit, Guide and Guardian UMH#648
Please sing stanzas 1, 3, 4
Misty Rondeau, flute
A Reading from the Hebrew Scriptures
Genesis 13:1–12
Psalm of Response
Psalm 15 UMH p. 747
Anthem
Create in Me a Clean Heart Mark Patterson
A Reading from a Contemporary Prophetic Voice
A reading from bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Diana Simmons
A Reading from the Epistles
Philippians 2:1–4, 12–16
Sermon
Act, React, Interact
Our Shared Affirmation
The Spirit has given gifts.
And every gift matters.
No one has every gift.
And no one has no gift.
We belong to one another.
Together, we are the Body of Christ.
And God is still at work.
Equipping us for every good work.
Joys and Concerns
Our Parent in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Your kin-dom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil.
For yours is the kin-dom, the power, and the glory forever.
Amen.
Blessing of the Tithes and Offerings
UMH#87
Hymn
Give Me the Faith Which Can Remove UMH#650
Please sing stanzas 1, 3, 4
Blessing and Sharing of Christ’s Light
Postlude
Andante cantabile Henrich Soussmann
Today’s worship participants
Our Pastor: Rev. Kelly Dotson
Music Director: Dr. Joel Reed
Worship Arts Associate: Patty Higgins
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