September 19, 2021

Seventeenth Sunday after

Pentecost

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Liturgical PrayerUM Worship and Songs #96

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Our lives are cluttered, Lord Jesus,by too many things and too much to do.

We are driven by the need to succeedand are distracted from our service.

We have often lost our way.Forgive us.Let us, like Mary, find the one thing that is needed and sit at your feet. Amen.

Hymn No. 475

WORDS: Bianco of Siena, 15th cent.; trans. by Richard F.

Littledale, 1867, alt.

Come Down, O Love Divine

Come down, O love divine,seek thou this soul of mine,

and visit it with thineown ardor glowing;

O Comforter, draw near,within my heart appear,

and kindle it,thy holy flame bestowing.

O let it freely burn,till earthly passions turn

to dust and ashesin its heat consuming;

and let thy glorious lightshine ever on my sight,and clothe me round,

while my path illumining.

And so theyearning strong,

with which the soul will long,shall far outpass the

power of human telling;

for none canguess its grace,

till Love create a placewherein the Holy

Spirit makes a dwelling.

Children’s Time

Anthem

Adult Choir

“What a Friend We Have in

Jesus”

Flute: Eileen Clift

Congregational PrayerWe are a people of prayer.

Go online to send in your prayer requests at www.faumc.net Or

send them to prayerchain@faumc.net

Lord’s Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive

us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but

deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

“What Wondrous Love Is This”

HYMN No. 292

WORDS: USA folk hymn

What wondrouslove is this,

O my soul, O my soul,what wondrous

love is this,O my soul!

What wondrouslove is this

that caused the Lordof bliss

to bear the dreadful cursefor my soul, for my soul,

to bear the dreadful cursefor my soul.

What wondrouslove is this,

O my soul, O my soul,what wondrous

love is this,O my soul!

What wondrouslove is this

that caused theLord of life

to lay aside his crownfor my soul, for my soul,

to lay aside his crown for my soul.

To God and to the LambI will sing, I will sing,

to God and to the Lamb,I will sing;

to God and to the Lamb

who is thegreat I AM,

while millionsjoin the theme

I will sing, I will sing;while millionsjoin the theme

I will sing.

And when fromdeath I’m free,

I’ll sing on, I’ll sing on,and when fromdeath I’m free,

I’ll sing on;

and when fromdeath I’m free,

I’ll sing andjoyful be,

and through eternityI’ll sing on, I’ll sing on,and through eternity

I’ll sing on.

Scripture

1 Corinthians 13:1-13(NRSV)

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.

7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10 but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end.

11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Sermon

“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another.

Just as I have loved you, you also should love

one another.” ~ John 13:34

Make some cookies. Share some cookies. Loving well.

“The Gift of Love”

Hymn No. 408WORDS: Hal Hopson, 1972 (1 Cor. 13:1-3)

© 1972 Hope Publishing Co.

Though I may speakwith bravest fire,and have the gift

to all inspire,

and have not love,my words are vain,as sounding brass,and hopeless gain.

Though I may giveall I possess,

and striving somy love profess,

but not be givenby love within,the profit soon

turns strangely thin.

Come, Spirit, come,our hearts control,

our spirits longto be made whole.

Let inward loveguide every deed;

by this we worship,and are freed.

BENEDICTION

Choral Response“We Cannot Measure

How You Heal”Hymn No. 3139

vs. 3

So some have come who need your help

and some have come to make amends,

as hands which shaped and saved the world

are present in the touch of friends.

Lord, let your Spirit meet us here

to mend the body, mind and soul,

to disentangle peace from pain

and make your

broken people whole.

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Go in Peace.

Allegro Vivace

(Sonata II)

Felix

Mendelssohn POSTLUDE

GO IN PEACE. HAVE A BLESSED WEEK.

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