September 7th, 2025 Worship Service
Groveport UMC, Groveport Ohio
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OPENING SONG: “I Surrender All” - #354
WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
OPENING PRAYER:
God, you are our God. Thank you for being faithful to us every single day. Thank you for bringing us here to learn more about your Kingdom. Teach us to be grateful and to welcome others with love. Help us follow Jesus in real and faithful ways.
In His name we pray. AMEN.
PRELUDE & LIGHTING ALTAR CANDLES “Be Still My Soul”
*HYMN: “Onward Christian Soldiers” - #575
CALL TO WORSHIP:
Leader: Come, brothers and sisters, for God has brought us close.
People: Let us worship, for the kingdom of God is near.
Leader: Let us sing praise to the God of Earth and sky and seas.
People: God’s kingdom is just outside our door.
Leader: Let us confess how we fall short to the God of our deeds.
People: God’s kingdom is sitting right next to us.
Leader: Let us hear Jesus’ commission to be his people in the world.
People: God calls us to live and work in the kingdom.
ALL: Let us rejoice, give thanks and sing.
HYMN: “Standing in the Need of Prayer” - #352
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH:
Leader: Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is the one true church, apostolic and universal, whose holy faith let us now declare:
People: We believe in God the Father, infinite in wisdom, power and love, whose mercy is over all his works, and whose will is ever directed to his children’s good.
We believe in Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of man, the gift of the Father’s unfailing grace, the ground of our hope and the promise of our deliverance from sin and death.
We believe in the Holy Spirit as the divine presence in our lives, whereby we are kept in perpetual remembrance of the truth of Christ, and find strength and help in time of need.
We believe that this faith should manifest itself in the service of love as set forth in the example of our blessed Lord, to the end that the kingdom of God may come upon the earth. Amen.
SONG: “He Is Exalted”
FIRST SCRIPTURE READING Psalm 99:1-4
OUR TIME OF PRAYER (During our time of prayer, the altar rail is open for all who wish to come forward.)
HYMN “Sanctuary”
PASTORAL PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER
OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS: “I Love to Tell the Story”
*DOXOLOGY
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
CHILDREN’S MOMENTS (Children K-6th grade are invited to Jr. Church at this time).
SECOND SCRIPTURE READING Mark 1:14-15
SERMON “The Kingdom of God is at Hand”
HOLY COMMUNION
*CLOSING HYMN: “He Leadeth Me, O Blessed Thought” - #128
*BENEDICTION
*SENDING FORTH: “As We Go”
POSTLUDE “I’ll Fly Away”