11am Traditional Worship, 8-4-24

Welcome & Announcements

Call to Worship – TFWS #2086 – Open Our Eyes

Opening Prayer: God of grace and glory, we thank you that you judge us not by the perfection of our actions, but by our readiness to live boldly by faith. Help us, as individuals and as a congregation, to trust you and follow where you lead, that in Christ your name may be glorified in all the earth.  Amen. 

Hymn #548 UMH – In Christ There is No East or West

Prayer of Confession #475 BOW w/pastoral response – Have mercy upon us, O God, according to your lovingkindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out our transgressions.  Wash us thoroughly from our iniquities, and cleanse us from our sins. For we acknowledge our transgressions, and our sin is ever before us.  Create in us clean hearts, O God, and renew a right spirit within us; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  (Pastor will offer words of grace in silence.)

Scripture Reading – John 6:24-35 NRSV

Message – Don’t Confuse Grub for Grace

Hymn #357 UMH (vv. 1,2,5,6) – Just as I Am, Without One Plea

Holy Communion

Offertory / Doxology UMH #95 

Pastoral Prayer / Lord’s Prayer

Hymn #620 UMH (v. 1,2) – One Bread, One Body

Benediction

Postlude