Caldwell Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
Invitation Sermon Series
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(Please
sign the attendance sheet in the pew pad. Please tear the sheets out and place
them in the offering plate after everyone in your pew has signed in)
PRELUDE: Lighting of the Candles
WORDS
OF GREETING: God is Good – All the time
All
the time- God is Good
SHARING OUR JOYS AND CONCERNS: Including
birthdays and
Anniversaries
Following each joy, please respond:
For These gifts, We thank you, God.
Following each concern, please
respond:
God, in your mercy,
Hear our prayer.
CHILDREN’S
MOMENTS
*MORNING
GREETINGS: Greet those around you with handshakes or
hugs and words of greeting or joy.
OPENING
SONG:
“One Bread, One Body" # 620 in your
Hymnal
*CALL TO WORSHIP:
Leader: O
God, the Giver of life, we pray for the Church throughout the
World.
People:
Sanctify its life, renew its worship, empower its witness,
Restore its unity.
Leader: Remove from your people all pride and every
prejudice that dulls
Their will for unity.
People: Strengthen the work of al those who strive to
seek that
Common
obedience that will bind us together. Heal the
Divisions which separate your
children from one another,
That they may keep the unity of
the spirit in the bond of
Peace. Amen.
PREPARATION FOR PRAYER:
“Through It All” #507 in your Hymnal
SILENT PRAYER
PASTORAL PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER
SHARING GOD'S BLESSINGS
(Anti
malaria campaign of UMC...insecticide-treated sleeping nets.)
*OFFERING RESPONSE “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow” # 95 in your Hymnal
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
O God, we
humbly admit that we search so often for bread that perishes, rather than the
bread of eternal life. We
foolishly think that happiness and fulfillment can be attained from our own
hands, rather than from your hands. We offer these gifts with the promise that
you have already given us the bread of heaven. You are the Bread of Life. We
come seeking to never be hungry or thirsty again. Amen.
A
MESSAGE: "The
Invitation" (2 of 3)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: “Change My Heart O God” #278 in your
Hymnal
*WORDS OF PARTING
*PARTING
SONG “Trees
of the Field”
#2279 in The Faith We Sing
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Pastor Grace
Baldridge’s Cell Phone (262) 751-0955
Secretary’s
Phone: (262) 662-0264
Ministers
All of us
Pastor Pastor Grace
Baldridge
Pianist
Jane Spires
Greeters & Ushers Volunteers
Needed
Reader
Volunteer Needed
Dates
to Remember
August 3 UMW Evening Group
Items due for Bulletin
August
6 Shared Ministry Staff Meeting
UMW Day Group
Nurture, Membership &
Welcoming Committee
@ Mukwonago Library
Trustees Meeting
Finance Committee
August 8 Free Breakfast
Spring Prairie UMC
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers Don & Barb Foster
Reader Diane
Herron
Ephesians
4:1-16
Unity
in the Body of Christ
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life
worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and
gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain
the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one
Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one
baptism, one God and Father of
all, who is above all and through all and in all.
But each of us was given grace according to the measure of
Christ’s gift. Therefore it is said,
‘When he ascended on high he made captivity itself a captive;
he gave gifts to his people.’
(When it says, ‘He
ascended’, what does it mean but that he had also descended
into the lower parts of the earth? He who
descended is the same one who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he
might fill all things.) The
gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some
evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up
the body of Christ, until all of us come to
the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to
the measure of the full stature of Christ. We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about
by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in
deceitful scheming. But speaking the truth
in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body,
joined and knitted together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as
each part is working properly, promotes the body’s growth in building itself up
in love.
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Daily Prayer
Please
use this guided prayer as a way to pray daily for the whole world.
Together,
let us pray
For the people of this congregation…
For
those who suffer and those in trouble…
For the concerns of this local community…
For the
world, it’s peoples, and it’s leaders…
For the
Church universal – it’s leaders, it’s members, and
it’s mission
In communion with the saints…Amen