JULY 5, 2026 ORDER OF WORSHIP

 

THE FIRST WORD Rev. Jacob T. Jackson

 

Pastor: This is the day that the LORD has made.

People: Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

 

WELCOME Rev. Jacob T. Jackson

 

PRELUDE Donna Behe

 

INVOCATION (Remain Seated) Liturgist

Loving God,

You are the source of all beauty, faithfulness, and joy. We gather today to celebrate Your steadfast love and the covenant You have made with Your people.

Turn our hearts toward You and help us leave behind the distractions, worries, and burdens that compete for our attention. Draw us into Your presence, that we may delight in You as You delight in us.

Clothe us with Your grace and fill this place with Your Spirit. Remind us that we belong to You and that Your faithfulness endures through every generation.

Amen.

**CALL TO WORSHIP Liturgist

Leader: Listen! Do you hear it?

People: The voice of our Beloved calls to us.

Leader: The winter is past, the rain is over and gone.

People: God is making all things new.

 

Leader: The flowers appear on the earth, and songs of joy rise from creation.

People: We come to join the song of praise.

Leader: The Lord calls, "Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away."

People: We rise from our worries, our burdens, and our distractions.

Leader: The God who loves us has come near.

People: We come with joy to worship the Lord!

**UMH HYMN #400 “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing”

Verse 1

Come Thou fount of ev'ry blessing

Tune my heart to sing Thy grace

Streams of mercy never ceasing

Call for songs of loudest praise

Teach me some melodious sonnet

Sung by flaming tongues above

Praise the mount I'm fixed upon it

Mount of Thy redeeming love

 

Verse 2

Here I raise mine Ebenezer

Hither by Thy help I'm come

And I hope by Thy good pleasure

Safely to arrive at home

Jesus sought me when a stranger

Wand'ring from the fold of God

He to rescue me from danger

Interposed His precious blood

 

Verse 3

O to grace how great a debtor

Daily I'm constrained to be

Let Thy goodness like a fetter

Bind my wand'ring heart to Thee

Prone to wander Lord I feel it

Prone to leave the God I love

Here's my heart Lord take and seal it

Seal it for Thy courts above

 

OFFERING & OFFERTORY

 

**DOXOLOGY    

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;

Praise Him all creatures here below;

Praise Him above ye heav’nly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

 

OFFERTORY PRAYER Rev. Jacob T. Jackson

 

CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Rev. Jacob T. Jackson

Matthew 11:28

 

28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.

 

JOYS AND CONCERNS Rev. Jacob T. Jackson

PASTORAL PRAYER

LORD’S PRAYER

 

SCRIPTURE READING Romans 7:15-25 NRSV Liturgist

15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 

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16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. 

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17 But in fact it is no longer I who do it but sin that dwells within me. 

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18 For I know that the good does not dwell within me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do the good lies close at hand, but not the ability. 

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19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. 

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20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it but sin that dwells within me. 

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21 So I find it to be a law that, when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. 

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22 For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self, 

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23 but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 

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24 Wretched person that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 

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25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh I am enslaved to the law of sin.

 

RESPONSE TO SCRIPTURE Liturgist

Liturgist:  The Word of God for the people of God.

Congregation:  Thanks be to God.

 

SPECIAL MUSIC Donna Behe

 

SERMON “Good Intentions” Rev. Jacob T. Jackson

 

**TFWS HYMN #2130 “The Summons”

Verse 1

Will you come and follow Me

If I but call your name

Will you go where you don't know

And never be the same

Will you let My love be shown

Will you let My name be known

Will you let My life be grown

In you and you in Me

 

Verse 2

Will you leave yourself behind

If I but call your name

Will you care for cruel and kind

And never be the same

Will you risk the hostile stare

Should your life attract or scare

Will you let Me answer prayer

In you and you in Me

 

Verse 3

Will you let the blinded see

If I but call your name

Will you set the prisoners free

And never be the same

Will you kiss the leper clean

And do such as this unseen

And admit to what I mean

In you and you in Me

 

Verse 4

Will you love the you you hide

If I but call your name

Will you quell the fear inside

And never be the same

Will you use the faith you've found

To reshape the world around

Through My sight and touch and sound

In you and you in Me

 

Verse 5

Lord Your summons echoes true

When You but call my name

Let me turn and follow You

And never be the same

In Your company I'll go

Where Your love and footsteps show

Thus I'll move and live and grow

In You and You in me

 

HOLY COMMUNION

Pastor:  The Lord be with you.

People:  And also with you.

Pastor:  Lift up your hearts. 

People:  We lift them up to the Lord.

Pastor:  Let us give thanks to the Lord.

People:  It is right to give our thanks and praise.

(Pastor Prays)

People:  Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

(Pastor Prays Prayer of Consecration)

People:  Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.

 

CLOSING SONG “Just as I Am - I Come Broken”

Just as I am without one plea

But that thy blood was shed for me

And that thou bidst me come to thee

O Lamb of God I come, I come

 

I come broken to be mended

I come wounded to be healed

I come desp’rate to be rescued

I come empty to be filled

 

I come guilty to be pardoned 

By the blood of Christ, the lamb

And I’m welcomed with open arms

Praise God just as I am

 

Just as I am and waiting not

To rid my soul of one dark blot

To thee whose blood 

can cleanse each spot

O Lamb of God I come, I come

 

I come broken to be mended

I come wounded to be healed

I come desp’rate to be rescued

I come empty to be filled

 

I come guilty to be pardoned 

By the blood of Christ, the lamb

And I’m welcomed with open arms

Praise God just as I am

 

Just as I am I would be lost

But mercy and grace 

my freedom bought

And now to glory in your cross

O Lamb of God I come

 

I come broken to be mended

I come wounded to be healed

I come desp’rate to be rescued

I come empty to be filled

 

I come guilty to be pardoned 

By the blood of Christ, the lamb

And I’m welcomed with open arms

Praise God just as I am

Praise God just as I am

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS Liturgist

 

FELLOWSHIP BLESSING Youth Representative

Loving God,

Thank You for this day, for this church family, and for the food we are about to share. When we try to do everything on our own, remind us that we need Your help and Your grace every day.

Bless this food, bless the hands that prepared it, and bless our conversations around these tables. We thank You for all Your gifts, and most of all for Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

**BENEDICTION Rev. Jacob T. Jackson

POSTLUDE Donna Behe

(Please be seated as the postlude closes our service)