July 28, 2024
WE GATHER IN AWE AND PRAISE
PRELUDE “Etude Op. 10 No. 9” Frederic Chopin
INTROIT “God Welcomes All” John Bell
WELCOME Rev. Taylor Barner
One: This is the day that the Lord has made
All: Let us rejoice and be glad in it
*CALL TO WORSHIP
One: We gather today from many paths to worship the Lord as one body.
All: We gather as individual members, united by the Spirit’s call.
One: Let us join together in the chorus of praise.
All: All praise and honor be the one true God, now and forever. Come, let us worship the Lord.
* HYMN 396 “Brethren We Have Met to Worship” HOLY MANNA
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION Peter Maurath
Merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed. We have forgotten the bonds that connect us, to neighbor and stranger alike. We have thought only of ourselves, our comfort, our needs; we have neglected the other in our midst. Forgive us O God. Shine your light in our darkness, that we might see you and one another. Help us to remember that all are needed and to embrace one another as you embraced us. In Christ’s name we pray.
*ASSURANCE OF PARDON
*RESPONSE OF PRAISE 205 “Ubi Caritas” UBI CARITAS
*PASSING OF THE PEACE
One: The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all,
All: And also with you.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
ANTHEM “My Shepherd Will Supply My Need” arr. Peter Niedmann
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE Genesis 32-22-32 NRSVUE
The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.” So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans and have prevailed.” Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, yet my life is preserved.” The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the hip socket, because he struck Jacob on the hip socket at the thigh muscle.
CHILDRENS MESSAGE Ruth Harold
SCRIPTURE 1 Corinthians 12:12-26 NRSVUE
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many members yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and those members of the body that we think less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect, whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.
Holy Wisdom, Holy Word
Thanks be to God
SERMON “Who We Are” Rev. Taylor Barner
WE RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD
*HYMN 757 “Today We All Are Called To Be Disciples” KINGSFOLD
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE followed by the Lord’s Prayer on screen
TIME OF OFFERING online giving is available at www. indianolapres.org/give
OFFERTORY “Today We All Are Called To Be Disciples” arr. Seth Dansie
*OFFERTORY RESPONSE 697 vs. 1
Take my love; my Lord, I pour
At thy feet its treasure store;
Take myself, and I will be
Ever, only all for thee
Ever, only, all for thee.
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
Blessed are you, O God, maker of all things. Through your goodness you have blessed us with these gifts: ourselves, our time, and our possessions. Use us, and what we have gathered, in feeding the world with your love; through the one who gave himself for us, Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord. Amen.
*HYMN 767 “Together We Serve”
TIME OF COMMUNITY SHARING
CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE “Let Thy Holy Spirit Guide” arr. Kevin G. Pace
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