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    Aug 09, 2020

    God's Dream

    God's Dream

    Passage: 1 John 4:7-21

    Speaker: Pat Botelle, Lay Speaker

    Series: Lessons from the Library

    Category: Social Justice

    God dreams about people sharing and caring. God dreams that we reach out and hold one another’s hands and play one another’s games and laugh with one another’s hearts. And God’s dreams come true by sharing, loving, caring, holding, playing, laughing. As easy as knowing we are family because we are all God’s children. ~Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams. "God’s Dream"
    Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
    August 16, 2020 - 10 AM
     
    Watch the service as you follow along
     
    Opening Praise: ALL THE PEOPLE SAID AMEN
     
     
    Welcome
     
    Call to Worship
    L: Beloved, we are called to love one another, because love is from God.
    P: God’s love is poured in us from our birth.
    L: We are called to extend the love of God to all people.
    P: God’s love is taught to us through the witness of God’s faithful people.
    L: We are called to proclaim God’s love in all that we say and do.
    P: In all creation, in all our relationships, may God’s love be made known. AMEN.[1]
     
    Opening Praise:  If We Are The Body
     
    It's crowded in worship today, As she slips in trying to fade into the faces
    The girls teasing laughter is carrying farther than they know, Farther than they know, Lord

    Chorus:
    But if we are the body, Why aren't His arms reaching? Why aren't His hands healing?
    Why aren't His words teaching?
    And if we are the body, Why aren't His feet going?
    Why is His love not showing them there is a way? There is a way

    A traveler is far away from home, He sheds his coat and quietly sinks into the back row
    The weight of their judgmental glances, Tells him that his chances are better out on the road
     
    Chorus

    Jesus paid much too high a price, For us to pick and choose who should come
    And we are the body of Christ

    Chorus 2X

    Jesus is the way
     
    Opening Prayer: The Prayer of St. Francis UMH #481
     
    Lord make me an instrument of your peace
    Where there is hatred let me sow love
    Where there is injury, pardon
    Where there is doubt, faith
    Where there is despair, hope
    Where there is darkness, light
    And where there is sadness, joy
     
    O divine master
    grant that I may not so much seek
    to be consoled as to console
    to be understood as to understand
    To be loved as to love
    For it is in giving that we receive
    it is in pardoning that we are pardoned
    And it's in dying that we are born to eternal life. AMEN
     
    Scripture Reading: 1 John 4:7-21 (NIV)[2]
     
    7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
     
    13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
     
    God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
     
    19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
     
    A Story for All God’s Children – God’s Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams
     
    Message: Lessons from the Library: God’s Dream
     
    Joys and Concerns
       Prayers of the People
       The Lord’s Prayer
    Prayer of Thanksgiving for Offerings
     
    Closing Song: HOLD US TOGETHER
    Matt Maher, Steve Wilson
     
    VERSE ONE:
    It don't have a job, Don't pay your bills
    Won't buy you a home, In Beverly Hills

    VERSE TWO:           
    Won't fix your life, In five easy steps
    Ain't the law of the land, Or the government

    PRE CHORUS: But it's all you need..
     
    CHORUS:                 
    Love, will, hold us together, Make us a shelter, to weather the storm
    And I'll, be, my brothers keeper, So the whole world will know that we're not alone

    VERSE THREE:        
    It's waiting for you, Knockin' at your door!
    Every moment of truth, When your heart hits the floor

    PRE CHORUS TWO:  When you're on your knees then...

    CHORUS:                             
    Love, will, hold us together, Make us a shelter to weather the storm
    And I'll, be, my brothers keeper, So the whole world will know that we're not alone

    BRIDGE:                    This is the first, day of the rest of your life
                                        This is the first, day of the rest of your life
                                        'Cause even in the dark you can still see the light
                                        It's gonna be alright, s'gonna be alright

                                        This is the first, day of the rest of your life
                                        This is the first, day of the rest of your life
                                        'Cause even in the dark you can still see the light
                                        It's gonna be alright, s'gonna be alright

     
    CHORUS:                 
    Love, will, hold us together, Make us a shelter to weather the storm
    And I'll, be, my brothers keeper, So the whole world will know that we're not alone
     
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    [2] Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Retrieved from https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+john+4&version=NIV
     
    Song Credits:
    1 - ALL THE PEOPLE SAID AMEN
    CCLI Song # 6518275
    Matt Maher | Paul Moak | Trevor Morgan
    © 2013 Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing (Admin. by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.), Thankyou Music (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing), Valley Of Songs Music (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing), Trevor Morgan Music
    CCLI License # 1011499
     
    2 - If We Are The Body
    Mark Hall
    CCLI Song # 4196589
    © 2003 My Refuge Music (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing)
    Be Essential Songs (Admin. by Essential Music Publishing LLC)
    CCLI License # 1011499
     
    3 - HOLD US TOGETHER
    Matt Maher, Steve Wilson
    CCLI Song # 5553657
    © Meaux Mercy (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing); Skyline Apartments (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing);
    spiritandsong.com (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing); Thankyou Music (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing)
    CCLI License # 1011499