Clinton UMC Worship February 9, 2025, 9:00 A.M.
Prelude – “How Great is Our God” – Anita, piano
Watchword – “And one called to another and said, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.” (Isaiah 6:3)
Greeting/Announcements
Beloved, the Savior calls to you. Will you follow?
God, help us leave everything and follow.
Christ’s call persists through the clouds of doubt, fear, and worry that descend on our path. Will you follow?
God, help us leave everything and follow.
Jesus calls us to shift our priorities, to leave behind the baggage of prejudice and the grasping for position so we can truly love God and our neighbors well. Will you follow?
God, help us leave everything and follow.
Beloved, receive this good news: you are not alone! Today we answer Christ’s call together!
God, help us leave everything and follow your path of Love everywhere we go! Amen.
(UMC Discipleship)
Hymn – “Speak, O Lord”
Children’s Moment/Children’s Mission Change Offering – “Trading My Sorrows”
Prayer of Confession
O Lord, forgive us when we fail to respond to your call with faith.
Through your Spirit, we rest in the assurance of your acceptance.
Forgive us when we are shackled by our narrow understandings of discipleship and our clouded sense of purpose.
Through your Spirit, we are drawn into the illumination of your empowering love.
Forgive us when we are frightened of the future or pull back from the demand of your calling. Forgive us when we fail to sense your presence in our past, to acknowledge your grace in the present moment, and to trust you for our future.
Through your Spirit, we offer ourselves in discipleship. We come together as your disciples. We seek renewed and renewing faith. Touch us now with your Spirit, Lord. Touch us now with your Spirit. (UMC Discipleship)
Old Testament Reading: Psalm 138
* Statement of Faith – UMH # 881
* “Glory Be to the Father” – UMH # 71
*New Testament Reading: Luke 5:1-11
Message: “Pretentious Goodness Remedy”
Hymn – UMH #622 – “There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood”, vss. 1-3
The Great Thanksgiving (Communion)
The table is open to anyone who seeks to respond to Christ’s love and seeks to lead a new life of peace and love.
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
It is right, and a good and joyful thing, Always and everywhere to give thanks to you, Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. With your people on earth and all the company of heaven we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
Holy are you and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ. By the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection you gave birth to your Church, delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made with us a new covenant by water and the Spirit.
On the night in which he gave himself up for us, he took bread, gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said: “Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
When the supper was over, he took the cup, gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said: “Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
In remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ’s offering for us, as we proclaim the mystery of faith.
Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.
By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world, until Christ comes in final victory, and we feast at his heavenly banquet.
Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy Church, all honor and glory is yours, almighty Father, now and forever. Amen.
The Lord’s Prayer
Giving the Bread and Cup – (Invitation to come to the alter down center aisle starting with back pews. We invite you to place your offering in the baskets provided. Cup your hands to receive the bread)
*Closing Hymn – UMH #593 – “Here I Am, Lord”
*Benediction
*Sending Song – “Make Us One”