APRIL 27, 2014

A Common Life

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Second Baptist Church

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Note: + Indicates stand if you are able. | Please see an usher for a listening aid.

Childcare available on Level 2. | Children’s worship bags available at the entrances.

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Online givers may participate in the worship offering by using the card in the pew rack.

Welcome Guests

If you are a first-time guest, please complete a guest card from a pew pocket or Friendship Register and drop it in the offering

plate so that we may acknowledge your visit and get acquainted with you. We are glad you have joined us for worship today.

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Meditations

Let the person who cannot be alone beware of community. Let the one who is not in community beware of being alone. Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

The Worship of GodSecond Sunday of Easter

April 27, 2014 8:30 and 11:00 a.m.

Gathering Amy Duncan

Trinity Chime

Candlelighting Josie Hilton

Prelude “Christ Triumphant” Pietro Yon

Invitation to Worship Mike Lassiter

+Hymn of Praise 197 “We Welcome Glad Easter” ST. DENIO

The Gospel Lesson John 20:19–31 Angie Fuller (8:30) Carole Kingery (11:00)

(Pew Bible, page 75, New Testament)Leader: The Good News of Our Lord.

People: Praise be to our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Practicing the Presence of God

+Hymn “Easter People, Raise Your Voices” REGENT SQUARE

Easter people, raise your voices, sounds of heaven in earth should ring.Christ has brought us heaven’s choices;heavenly music, let it ring.Alleluia! Alleluia! Easter people, let us sing.

Fear of death can no more stop usfrom our pressing here below.For our Lord empowered us to triumph over every foe.Alleluia! Alleluia! On to victory now we go. Every day to us is Easter,with its resurrection song.Even when life overwhelms us Easter people sing this song:Alleluia! Alleluia! Everlasting Sunday song.Words © 1979 The United Methodist Publishing House. UBP

Stephen Minister Commissioning Sara Langford

Litany Suzie BoggessLeader: Are you prepared to meet those requests that we ask of you?

Stephen Ministers: Yes, with the help of God.

Leader: Are you prepared to nurture the skills you have learned and use them in service to others—to support, encourage, build up, and comfort people in all their needs?

Stephen Ministers: Yes, with the help of God.

Leader: Now we ask you, people of Second Baptist Church, to open your hearts to the ministry of these people and to pray for them, that they may be effective servants of Christ. Are you prepared to meet this request?

People: Yes, with the help of God.

Leader: We also ask you to accept their ministry when you need help, to allow these individuals to work with you as you face struggles in your life, that you might receive support and help from your Christian brothers and sisters. Will you do this?

People: Yes, with the help of God.

Leader: Cathy, Marilyn, Kathy, Trudy and Bob are you prepared to serve as Stephen Ministers at Second Baptist Church?

Stephen Ministers: Yes, with the help of God.

Leader: Then receive this blessing from your church family.

All: May you share Christ’s ever abundant love with others so that they and you may grow in his wholeness.

Prayers of the People Blane Baker

The New Testament Lesson Acts 2:42–47 David Fuller (8:30) Tom Lankford (11:00)

(Pew Bible, page 91, New Testament)Leader: This is the Word of the Lord.

People: Thanks be to God!

Choral Worship “The Light of the World” Don BesigThe Sanctuary Choir, Michelle Cook, soloist

Sermon “A Common Life” Jason Edwards

+Hymn of Response 204 PUER NOBIS

“That Easter Day with Joy Was Bright”

The worship of the living God invites our response. Those who wish to profess faith in Christ and/or to unite with the church are invited to come forward and share your decision with the pastor.

+Offertory Prayer David Fuller (8:30) Tyler Tankersley (11:00)

Offertory “I Know That My Redeemer Lives” Burkhardt(Hymn 210)

+Presentation of Offerings 208 HE IS LORD

“He is Lord”

He is Lord, He is Lord! He is risen from the dead and He is Lord!Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.Music and Refrain arr. © 1986 Word Music, Inc. UBP

A Time of Greeting Jason Edwards Recognition of Jason Edward’s Fifth Anniversary Eric Zahnd

+Congregational Blessing Jason Edwards

+The Sending Forth 423 ACCLAMATIONS

“This is the Threefold Truth”

This is the three-fold truth on which our faith depends,and with this joyful cry worship begins and ends:Christ has died! Christ is risen! Christ will come again!Words and Music © 1980 Hope Music Publishing Company

Postlude “The Strife is O’er” Alfred Fedak

All Songs UBP CCLI #1091036 All Video UBP #502497070

Organ: Ann Posey Piano: Milton Horne (8:30); Marianne Neth (11:00)Sanctuary Sound: Dave Heston, Gary Pennington Media: John Hilton, Susan Miller

Our Care MinisTry Cards

There is a Care Ministry card located in the pew racks that describes our ministry and provides an option to request prayer or care on the opposite side.

We would like to encourage you to use the card to express a need. Simply fill out the information and place it in the offering plate during worship,

or give the card to one of the pastoral staff members.

Prayer COnCerns

REMEMBER THOSE ON MISSIONJerry Cain and Steve Smith, India 4/19–5/6.

Israel and Christiana Obieje, Ibadan, Nigeria, Serious riots at Bowen University resulting in the school being closed down; bomb blasts in Abuja killed hundreds of people; students were

abducted in a secondary school near Abuja, the state capital. While Israel and his family remain safe, these continued violent acts have Nigeria in

“real shock” according to Israel.

(These are the latest additions to our Second Baptist Church prayer list. To see a full prayer list please go to 2bcliberty.org/prayerlist)

stephen Minister CommissioningStatement of Purpose

“Bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2 After seeing how God has worked in and through my husband,

Blane, I wanted to help others as he has helped and blessed others through the Stephen Ministry. I have seen the impact on his life and it is my hope and prayer that God will use me to serve others through this ministry. -- Cathy Baker

I have been waiting for the right time to pursue training as a Stephen Minister ever since the program started at Second. The right time fi-nally came and I have been greatly blessed by our training experience within the setting of a covenant group. I am excited to practice and grow in the skills we have learned and pray that I will be the pres-ence of Christ to others in need of care. -- Marilyn Buhlig

“The Stephen Ministry has been a blessing to me after my husband’s death. It has been some time that I felt God’s calling to serve Him in the capacity as a Stephen Minister. I trust, with the excellent training and God’s gentle coaching, to be prepared to walk beside one who seeks the help of a Stephen Minister.” Psalm 33:20–22

– Trudy Dixon

I had heard of the Stephen Ministry through family members who have been Ministers in the past and have looked forward to being a part of it. It is a powerful resource for people in need, and I will embrace this opportunity to serve and help others.

– Bob Dusin

My desire to become a Stephen Minister has developed over an ex-tended period of time. As I think of Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 12, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness,” I know that God has prepared me through circumstances in my life to serve as a wounded healer for others.

– Kathy Campbell Mazi

GeTTinG TO KnOW One anOTHerWorship Leaders Today

Blane Baker is an active deacon, serves on the Stewardship commit-tee, and teaches The Tanner Class bible study group. He holds the Wallace A. Hilton chair in Physics at William Jewell College.

Jason Edwards is Senior Pastor. He and Christy are parents of Jackson (5), Luke (2) and Norah (3 months). Jason was called to Second Baptist Church in 2009. (More at 2bcliberty.org/meetourstaff)

Suzie Boggess joined 2BC in 1971. She retired from teaching second grade in the Excelsior Springs School District and now focuses on leisure activities, one of which is car of the flower beds around the church property. She is married to Lee Boggess.

Angie Fuller came to Second in 1997. She serves in the Music and Children’s Ministries and on the Arts and Environment Team. She also teaches at Second Friends Preschool. Angie and David are par-ents to Naomi and Adam.

David Fuller joined Second after graduating from William Jewell College. He is a deacon serving on the Ordinance Team. David is an Operations Research Analyst for the Department of the Army at Ft. Leavenworth.

Josie Hilton is a first grader at Lewis and Clark Elementary School. She is the daughter of Erin and Mark Hilton.

Carole Kingery is a Stephen Minister and Co-Coordinator for the Stephen Leader Team.

Sara Langford is a co-coordinator of the Stephen Ministry and plays the piano for the preschool choir. Sara is a teacher with the Liberty Public School District.

Tom Lankford has been at Second since 1988. He is married to Erin and they are parents to three children and grandparents to three. Tom leads a Sunday Morning Bible Study group and works with the Video Team.

Mike Lassiter is the Associate Pastor for Missions and Community Building. He and Debbie have been at Second since 1989 and have four children and four grandchildren.

Tyler Tankersley has been at Second Baptist since November 2009. Tyler is the Associate Pastor of Students and Spiritual Formation, He and Jess are the proud parents of Henry (21 months old) and a beagle named Walter. (More at 2bcliberty.org/meetourstaff)

Second Baptist Church

Life Together 2014Church-wide Adult Retreat

June 6–8at Second Baptist Church$20.00 | Child-care available

Special Guest Leader

Diana Butler Bass

Join us for this exciting weekend with our special guest Diana Butler Bass. Diana will lead us in an exploration of the role a community of faith has in a diverse, pluralistic culture that is continually shifting and changing. ABOUT DIANADiana Butler Bass is an author, speaker, and independent scholar specializing in American religion and culture. She holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Duke University and is the author of eight books, including Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awaken-ing. A People’s History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story, and the best-selling Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church is Transforming the Faith.

Learn more and register at

2bcliberty.org/lifetogether

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Our Ministry TeamJason Edwards, Senior Pastor | Mike Lassiter, Associate Pastor Allan Aunspaugh, Minister of Music | Ann Posey, Organist

Tyler Tankersley, Associate Pastor | Gwen Phillips, Children’s Pastor Linda Jones, Church Administrator

Getting Connected

Each Sunday in the Welcome Center (just inside the Kansas Street entrance on Level 1), our Connections Team is waiting to help you get “connected.” This may include finding a Bible study class, showing you where children and student ministries meet, or sharing the days’ activities and schedule. You may also choose simply to enjoy a cup of coffee at the Welcome Center’s coffee bar and get to know others at Second.

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