The Fruit

October 17, 2021
Pastor Stacy Dickson
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Service of Worship

Come, Sweet Peace of God
Edward Broughton
© 2000 Lorenz Publishing Company
Used by Permission. ONE LICENSE # M-401420

Welcome and Opening Prayer

Opening Prayer
O God who is greater than the most powerful forces in this world, enable us to be still and know that You are God. O Lord who answers out of the whirlwind of everyday life, breathe in us Your Holy Spirit to strengthen, comfort, and guide us in the midst of the storm. O still, small voice, speak to us this hour that we might become makers of Your peace in our homes, in our communities, in our world. We pray all this in the name of the One who calmed the raging sea. Amen.

Opening Hymn — #432 Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love (v. 1-3)

Refrain
Jesu Jesu
Fill us with Your love
Show us how to serve
The neighbors we have from You

1. Kneels at the feet of His friends
Silently washes their feet
Master who acts as a slave to them

Refrain

2. Neighbors are rich and poor
Neighbors are black and white
Neighbors are near and far away

Refrain

3. These are the ones we should serve
These are the ones we should love
All these are neighbors to us and You

Refrain

Jesu Jesu (Chereponi)
Charles H. Webb | Tom Colvin
© 1969, 1989 Hope Publishing Company
Used by Permission. CCLI License # 656051

Scripture Reading — Galatians 5:22-23 (NRSV)

22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.

Joys and Concerns, Pastoral Prayer

Pastoral Prayer

O Bounteous Spirit, I ask you to bring forth in my life your fruits: the fruit of love, so I may love you above all things and all others for your sake; the fruit of joy, that I may find my delight in your service; the fruit of peace, that I may be pardoned through your mercy and may rest in your love; the fruit of longsuffering so that I may bear, with patience, all afflictions; the fruit of gentleness, that I may subdue all anger and take calmly and sweetly all trials and provocations; the fruit of meekness, that I may forgive freely all who have hurt me and endure with patience all burdens that are laid upon me; the fruit of temperance that I may restrain all my desires and bring them into the subjection of your holy will. Amen.

Offering Our Gifts to the Lord
For those who are called and able, gifts and tithes can still be made through online giving, by mailing them in, and by dropping them off to the office through the secure mail slot to the left of the double door entry to the church hallway.

Offertory — Samantha Chlanda

Hold On To Me
Lauren Daigle | Paul Duncan | Paul Mabury
© Centricity Music Publishing; Centricity Songs; Pubalicious; Flychild Publishing; So Essential Tunes
Used by Permission. CCLI License # 656051

Doxology

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
praise him, all creatures here below;
praise him above, ye heavenly host;
praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen…

Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow (Old 100th)
Louis Bourgeois | Thomas Ken
Public Domain

Offertory Prayer

God of great blessing, but even greater lessons, remind us again who gives life and who receives it. Sometimes, like Job, we need to have our questioning answered with a lesson – we need to learn that we are not the ones in charge in the universe. The gifts we bring this morning are not a down payment toward future favor, but a token of a debt we will never be able to repay. May we gain wisdom in the giving, and may these gifts be blessed for your glory, not ours. In Christ, we pray. Amen.

Sermon – Pastor Stacy Dickson
The Fruit

Closing Hymn — #292 What Wondrous Love Is This

1. What wondrous love is this
O my soul O my soul
What wondrous love is this O my soul
What wondrous love is this
That caused the Lord of bliss
To bear the dreadful curse
For my soul for my soul
To bear the dreadful curse for my soul

2. When I was sinking down
Sinking down sinking down
When I was sinking down sinking down
When I was sinking down
Beneath God’s righteous frown
Christ laid aside His crown
For my soul for my soul
Christ laid aside
His crown for my soul

3. To God and to the Lamb
I will sing I will sing
To God and to the Lamb I will sing
To God and to the Lamb
Who is the Great I Am
While millions join the theme
I will sing I will sing
While millions join the theme
I will sing

4. And when from death I’m free
I’ll sing on I’ll sing on
And when from death I’m free I’ll sing on
And when from death I’m free
I’ll sing and joyful be
And through eternity
I’ll sing on I’ll sing on
And thro’ eternity I’ll sing on

What Wondrous Love Is This (Wondrous Love)
Alexander Means | William Walker
Public Domain

Benediction

May God, who began a good work in you, continue to be at work in your life, guiding, teaching and equipping you until Jesus Christ returns. May your love and compassion continue to grow — a love that is full of knowledge and wise insight, so that you will be able to recognize what really matters, and live a pure and blameless life. May you live a life centered in the Holy Spirit, a life that bears rich fruit – love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, tolerance and self-control – all the good things that come from following the Spirit, for living this way will bring much glory and praise to God. Amen.

Postlude – Hani