*Those that are able are invited to stand

- Gathering into worship -

Prelude

Welcome and Announcements

Introit “Where Charity and Love Prevail.” Choir

*Opening Chorus “Come! Come! Everybody Worship!” (verses 1-3) TFWS #2271

*Call to Worship

One: Friends, we gather this day to celebrate life –

All: The life we have been given by God,

One: The life we share with one another in community,

All: The life that Jesus gives in abundance.

One: Let us be grateful for the joy of life,

All: And let us worship God.

*Hymn “Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life” UMH #164

*Opening Prayer

*Greeting One Another in Christian Love

- Meditation on God’s word -

Children’s Sermon

Scripture Luke 6:27-38

Message Anais Hussian

Hymn “Pass It On” UMH #572

Silent Prayer/Pastoral Prayer/Lord’s Prayer

- Sharing our blessings –

Invitation to Give

Offering of Music

*Doxology “Bless Thou the Gifts” UMH #587

Bless thou the gifts our hands have brought;

bless thou the work our hearts have planned.

Ours is the faith, the will, the thought; the rest, O God, is in thy hand.

Prayer of Thanksgiving

Lord of Love and Compassion: How easy the road of discipleship would be if all you asked from us were the gifts we bring to your altar. How convenient would it be if we could write a check or swipe a card and leave here to live like so many do, focused exclusively on our own wants, needs, and passions? Remind us again, as we present our tithes and offerings, that the real challenge of discipleship comes when we leave this place, as you send us into the world to respond in radical love to those who would judge us, hurt us, and threaten us. We pray this in the name of Jesus, who loved and forgave, even as he was tortured and nailed to a cross. Amen.

- Taking the Word to the World -

*Hymn “Freely, Freely” UMH #389

*Benediction

*Hymn “Freely, Freely” (Refrain) UMH #389

He said “Freely, freely you have received, freely, freely give.

Go in my name and because you believe, other will know that I live.

Postlude

www.mifflinave.org

412-731-2511

905 Mifflin Ave

Pastor: Rev. Kelly Smith

Pastor@mifflinave.org

214-202-9291

February 24, 2019