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 This week's bulletin includes the order of worship, announcements, prayer requests and calendar items, Rev. Green's sermon is entitled “Rejecting the Path of Least Resistance"...
The Worship of God
Enter with Reverence
Leave to Share God’s Love and Serve Others
Sunday, September 4, 2011 – 10:30 A.M.
Opportunities Henry Green
Prelude “Jesus Calls Us” Ruth Anne Shiplette
Call to Worship Hymn No. 306 Madrid
“Come, Christians, Join to Sing”
Invocation Bill Darnell
Solo Adam Cogliano
“In Christ Alone”
+Greetings and Love to You
Love to you, love to you, God’s great love to you.
As you walk through your life in joy or strife,
God’s love, God’s love to you.*
+Hymn No. 178 Townend
“How Deep the Father’s Love for Us”
Reflections on Labor Day
Pastoral Prayer and Lord’s Prayer
Offering and Offertory “Offertory on Pleading Savior”
+Hymn No. 705 Gloria Patri
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, amen.
The Lord’s Supper
Anthem Summer Choir
“All Things Work Together for Good”
Gospel Reading Matthew 18:15-20
The Heritage Pulpit
“Rejecting the Path of Least Resistance”
Many of you have heard me use the expression, “Most things are simple, but not easy.”
Sometimes we wait to pray when we are in a pinch and then, with magical thinking, use the text we just read to put the burden on God to “come through!” Some might say, “Alright God, you said if two or three are praying in your name…” There are several TV “Name It and Claim It” preachers who own private jets and live in palatial homes, paid for by the poor and the uninformed, who use this magical way of thinking to get more money to line their own pockets. Cutting a deal with God through these huckster brokers is about the same thing as taking money and pouring it down a drain pipe.
What is Jesus really talking about in Matthew 18:15-20?
Reject the path of least resistance
Work like it all depends on you and pray like it all depends on God
Give attention to the significance of relationships
Understand the importance of CHURCH
Give people a good reason to talk about you
+Hymn No. 272 St. Brendsn’s
“They’ll Know We Are Christians”
Introductions
+Benediction
Postlude “Praise Him Now”
+Congregation Standing
We ask that you please turn off, or put on silent mode, all cell phones and other electrical devices. Additionally, please no food or drinks in the sanctuary.
*The Baptist Hymnal, No. 663, Copyright © 1975 Broadman Press. CCLI # 1662915. Used by permission.
OPPORTUNITIES
The church office will be closed tomorrow in observance of Labor Day.
Our Wednesday Night Activities will resume this week. The time and activities are 5:45-6:15 – *Fellowship Dinner; 6:15-6:30 – Birthdays and Announcements; 6:30-6:45 – Prayer around the Tables; 6:30-7:15 – Children’s Time with Everett Golihew; 6:30-7:15 – Youth Hang Out; 6:45-7:15 – Bible Study in the Chapel; 7:15-8:30 – Adult Choir Rehearsal. *Everyone must make a dinner reservation by marking the appropriate place on the worship registration form or by calling the church office on Monday. If you held a permanent reservation in the past, a new one must be made. (First time guests eat free).
Summer is over! Which means that our Adult Choir begins its rehearsals this Wednesday, September 7, at 7:15 pm. In addition to preparing anthems for Sunday services, the choir will begin preparing music for Christmas soon. Newcomers are welcome!
Using Your Gifts for God! God has given each of us gifts to be used for His glory. In 1 Corinthians 12 the concept of using your gifts is encouraged. From September 7-18th sheets will be provided in the office hallway for you to sign up for the ministry which best matches your gift. If you are already using your gifts and would like to continue in the same manner, sign those. If you are interested in developing new areas of service, select that one. Please read the scripture and pray about what God has for you. If you would like to talk with someone about this, please feel free to speak to Tom Antonielli, Bill Darnell, Mary Ann Fulford, Sally Morehead, or Eleanor Sturgis. As always, the ministers, Henry Green and Ralph Manuel, are also available to talk with you. Thank you for your willingness to use your gifts for God.
The Knit Chics will resume on Thursday, September 8th, at 1 pm, in the church lounge. Beginning knitters are welcome!
The Trustees will meet this Thursday at 7 pm.
The Men’s Prayer Breakfast will take place this Saturday, September 10th, at 8 o’clock. There will not only be great food and fellowship, but Elizabeth Kinney, Executive Director of the Light House Shelter, will be the guest speaker. A sign up sheet is posted on the bulletin board by the lounge.
Youth Choir will begin its rehearsals next Sunday, September 11, at 5:15 pm in the choir room. All youth from 6th through 12th grades are invited to come.
If you would like to provide a Youth Choir snack supper on some Sunday afternoon, please sign up on the sheet located on the Youth bulletin board (by the entrance to the chapel).
Twenty-five tickets (on a first-come-first-serve basis) are available for a tailgate party and Navy/Air Force football game on Saturday, October 1, 2011. The cost is $55.00 per person and the deadline for paying is September 25th. Checks should be made payable to Heritage Baptist Church and mark the envelope Navy/Air Force game. The game is scheduled for 12 noon and the bus will leave from the church parking lot at 10 am. A sign up sheet is posted on the bulletin board by the lounge. Watch the bulletin for more details.
Food Pantry Distribution: Tuesday, September 6 – Jack Sturgis and Thursday, September 8 – Jim Smith.
September 11: Extended Care Workers: Nursery – Emily Morehead; Preschool 2’s and 3’s – Vicki and Steven Robertson; 4’s and 5’s – Sally Morehead and Ann Henry. Bus Driver: Bill Wilson. Pianist: Irene Green.
SEPTEMBER 4-10
Today 9:15 am - Sunday School
10:30 - Morning Worship
6:30 pm - Youth Fellowship
Tuesday 11:30 am - Lunch Bunch at the
Italian Market
8:30 pm - Alcoholics Anonymous
Wednesday 5:45 pm - Fellowship Dinner
6:15 - Birthdays
6:30 - Prayer Around Tables
- Children’s Time
- Youth Hang Out
6:45 - Bible Study in Chapel
7:15 - Adult Choir
Thursday 1:00 pm - Knit Chics
7:00 - Trustees
Friday 8:30 pm - Alcoholics Anonymous
Saturday 8:00 am - Men’s Prayer Breakfast
The Mission of
Heritage Baptist Church
As followers of Christ, we share God’s love and serve others.
Pastor: Henry Green
Minister of Music: Ralph Manuel
Director of Education: Everett Golihew
Minister to Senior Adults: Charles Barnes
Interim Youth Director: Melissa Manuel
Organist: Eleanor Sturgis
Assistant Organists: Ruth Anne Shiplette
Ellen Welker
Learning Center Director: Helen Holmboe
Secretary: Sally Morehead
Financial Secretary: Edie Stucker
Facilities Manager: Clair Morehead
Relief Custodian: Clyde Morehead
Nursery Coordinator: Amy Henry
PRAYER CONCERNS
Missionaries serving in crisis areas of our country and the world, our military and civilian personnel, their families, and leaders, Teresa Hansen, Chuck Creager, Keith and Barbara Mattison; Vicki Robertson, Fred Wagner, Adele Stockett, Hamilton Nunnally, Rachel Hall, Ed and Hilda Copeland, Faye Smith, Milton Jernigan, Tena Quesada, Joan Sumner, Mario Vidotto, Esther Settembrini, Cheryl Lijewski, Andrew Patterson, Dana Killendenz, Joan Blandford, Ellie McCabe, Bill Snyder, Bruce Fullerton, Paul Bobbitt, Jonathan Pickett, Cynthia Worley, Edgar Weedon, Bud Windham, Kathryn George, Morgan Creek, Tad and Thaeda Franz, Margie MacClay, Bernie Morris, Darlene Raines, Mike Williams, Coralee Adkins, Evelyn Cabral, Janet Cogliano, Tommy Pittman, Nancy Howell, Phoebe King; Kathleen Purdy, Vickie Shepherd.
We update our Prayer Concerns on a regular basis. Please make us aware of any individuals that we need to include on our list. Thank you.
Twelfth Sunday after
Pentecost
September 4, 2011
“Creating God,
You made the heavens and the earth and your work was Good and we praise you. May we continue your good work through our own labor – helping to create your kingdom on earth as in heaven. We pray on this Labor Day for all those who work. Whether in the school, the factory, the mines, the armed services, the business office, government or on the farm may all workers carry themselves with honor, know the respect of their managers, be kept safe from harm, and be well paid for hard work so that they might provide for their family and loved ones. God help us not to pit workers of one nation against those of another nation so that one must suffer if another thrives. Rather help us to create work in concert so that workers of all nations might mutually prosper with decent wages for decent work. Today we also pray for those who are unemployed or underemployed. May they not become discouraged; may they continue to find ways to learn and grow in their time out of work.
Help us as a nation to continue to provide for those who are suffering from unemployment so that they do not lose hearth and home. May those out of work experience tangible evidence of our support and may meaningful work come quickly.
May all the labors of our lives benefit your creation so that we might be co-creators of your world filled with peace and enough for all. Amen”
A Prayer for Labor Day by Paul Raushenbush, grandson of Rev. Dr. Walter Raushenbush (1861-1918), Baptist pastor in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City, professor, and author of A Theology for the Social Gospel.
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