Sunday, June 20, 2021 - Living Well with Others
Theme - Prayers for Life: Living Well with Others
Hymn Great Are You, Lord (In Person Only)
Welcome
Prayer
Ephesians 1:15-16 Common English Bible Translation
Since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, this is the reason that I don’t stop giving thanks to God for you when I remember you in my prayers. (Ps 107:8-9) Let them thank the Lord for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all people, because God satisfied the one who was parched with thirst, and he filled up the hungry with good things! (Question: Who have you struggled to love? Why?)
Ephesians 1:17
I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, will give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation that makes God known to you. (2 Cor 6:1-2) Since we work together with him, we are also begging you not to receive the grace of God in vain. He says, I listened to you at the right time, and I helped you on the day of salvation. Look, now is the right time! Look, now is the day of salvation. (Question: How do you listen for God?)
Ephesians 1:18-19
I pray that the eyes of your heart will have enough light to see what is the hope of God’s call, what is the richness of God’s glorious inheritance among believers, and what is the overwhelming greatness of God’s power that is working among us believers. This power is conferred by the energy of God’s powerful strength. (2 Cor 6:3-5) We don’t give anyone any reason to be offended about anything so that our ministry won’t be criticized. Instead, we commend ourselves as ministers of God in every way. We did this with our great endurance through problems, disasters, and stressful situations. We went through beatings, imprisonments, and riots. We experienced hard work, sleepless nights, and hunger. (Question: How have you noticed God’s presence in your life and in other people’s lives?)
Ephesians 1:20-21
God’s power was at work in Christ when God raised him from the dead and sat him at God’s right side in the heavens, far above every ruler and authority and power and angelic power, any power that might be named not only now but in the future. (2 Cor 6:6-7) We displayed purity, knowledge, patience, and generosity. We served with the Holy Spirit, genuine love, telling the truth, and God’s power. We carried the weapons of righteousness in our right hand and our left hand. (Question: Are there relationships in your life that you think God can’t help you to navigate? Why?
Ephesians 1:22-23
God put everything under Christ’s feet and made him head of everything in the church, which is his body. His body, the church, is the fullness of Christ, who fills everything in every way. (2 Cor 6:8-12) We were treated with honor and dishonor and with verbal abuse and good evaluation. We were seen as both fake and real, as unknown and well known, as dying-and look, we are alive! We were seen as punished but not killed, as going through pain but always happy, as poor but making many rich, and as having nothing but owning everything. Corinthians, we have spoken openly to you, and our hearts are wide open. There are no limits to the affection that we feel for you. You are the ones who placed boundaries on your affection for us. (Question: When do you feel most connected to other people?)
Reflection Together (In Person only)
Offering Ourselves to God
During this time let us reflect upon and commit ourselves to how we can connect to God through giving of our time, our thoughts, our resources, and our actions.
Hymn Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying (In Person Only)
Prayers of the People and The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us;
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
For thine is the kingdom and the power
and the glory, forever. Amen
Benediction
Closing Hymn We Are One in the Spirit (In Person Only)
Hymn List
We Are One in the Spirit – 300 GTG
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying – 469 GTG
Great Are You, Lord – 614 GTG
Take My Life – 697 GTG
Sermon Series May 30th – June 27th
Theme: Prayers for Life
June 27th – Living into the Future
New Sermon Series July 4th – August 1st
Theme: Trial – Error & Better Living
July 4th – in our responses
July 11th – in our relationships
July 18th – TBA
July 25th – in our responsibilities
August 1st – in our realities