October 25, 2009

Pre-service music
Call to Worship Ephesians 1:3-14
Leader: Grace and peace to you this day from God the Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
People: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing
Leader: Before the world was made, God chose us in Christ
to be holy and blameless before him in love.
People: According to God's great pleasure,
we are adopted as God's children through Jesus Christ, redeemed according to God's good pleasure
Leader: In Christ we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of our sins, according to the riches of his grace
People: In Christ we also, when we heard the word of truth,
the gospel of your salvation, and believed in you,
were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit; this is the pledge of our inheritance towards redemption as God's own people, to the praise of his glory.
Prayer of Invocation
Hymns Let Us Sing Till The Power of the Lord Comes Down Wonderful grace of Jesus HWB 150
Children's Story

Hearing

Scripture Luke 1:76-79; 19:8-10; Romans 1:13-17;
Titus 2:11-15; Acts 4:8-14
Sermon Joining salvation's song
Hymn Amazing Grace HWB 143

Responding

Sharing of Praises and Concerns
Pastoral Prayer
Offering/Hymn Praise God from Whom HWB 119
Announcements
Hymn Nothing is lost on the breath of God STS 121
Benediction

Today

Announcements

Please email all bulletin announcements by Wednesday 8:00 pm to Becky.

A memorial service for Kathy Russell will be held on Tuesday, October 27 at 2 pm at 2429 Jefferson Park Ave.

PACEM is looking for knitted or crochet scarves for the homeless (mostly men), 5-6 ft long (5 ft for women) and 8 inches wide, preferably in dark and variegated colors. Donations of yarn are also welcome. Please contact me with your interest at jeanmarie@shumates.net or call 361.1063 and I will put you in touch with the coordinator for this project.

You are invited to hear Fire, a Charlottesville-based women's a cappella chamber choir, in a PACEM (ministry to the homeless) benefit concert on Sunday, October 25th, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, 1901 Thomson Road in Charlottesville.

Hear the harmonious sounds of men's voices at the 8th annual Festival of Praise, Sunday, Nov. 1, 4:00 p.m., Eastern Mennonite School auditorium, 801 Parkwood Drive, Harrisonburg. Various groups will sing, and then join a mass chorus led by Jay Hartzler. The offering will benefit earthquake disaster relief in L'Aquila, Italy in cooperation with Swiss and Italian Mennonites, and supported by Virginia Mennonite Missions.

Sixth Annual Capps Lecture: Albert Jordy Raboteau
Holy Ordinary: Locating the Sacred in Literature and Life
November 4, 2009, 6pm, the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia; Free and open to the public; seating first come/first serve. His books include Slave Religion: The 'Invisible Institution' in the Antebellum South and A Sorrowful Joy.
A Chuck Wagon Gang concert, sponsored by VMRC Auxiliary, will be held Sunday, November 15, 2:30 pm at Park View Mennonite Church, to benefit the VMRC Good Samaritan Annual Fund. Advance tickets are available at Red Front, VMRC, Ruth's Books and Family Christian Stores. Tickets will also be available at the door. Advance tickets - $15.00, at the door - $17.00 (persons 17 and under free)

Seven Pearls on Salvation
1-Hebrew Bible - salvation as deliverance from occupation, enemies, death, adversity and redemption as purchase back from slavery, oppression, captivity. "Joshua" God saves, draws to "a wide, opening space" the root of the word.

2-In the New Testament the word for salvation ("soterion" in Greek) occurs over a 100 times, 50 times in gospels as deliverance from disease, demon possession, release from sin….

3-Mennonite Confession of Faith - Article 8. We believe that, through Jesus Christ, God offers salvation from sin and a new way of life. We receive God's salvation when we repent and accept Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. In Christ, we are reconciled with God and brought into the reconciling community. We place our faith in God that, by the same power that raised Christ from the dead, we may be saved from sin to follow Christ and to know the fullness of salvation. http://www.mennolink.org/doc/cof/art.8.html

4- Salvation: Moving from repentance to adoption

5- The inner music of salvation - grace transforms the inner enmity against the broken image of God within us as a result of sin, thus frees us to be children of God and servants in the KOG.

6- For the church, as the body of Christ, salvation as a way of life in the spirit and in the flesh together

7-Three views of atonement within salvation: 1. "In the history of Christian thought, there have been three major views of the atonement. Each has a basis in Scripture and contributes to our understanding of salvation. By breaking the power of sin and death, Christ is conqueror over evil (the Christ-the-victor view). By canceling our debt of sin, Christ is a sacrifice and pays the ransom on our behalf (substitutionary atonement). By opening the way to new life, Christ shows God's love, inspiring us to receive that love and love God and others in return (the moral-influence view)." http://www.mennolink.org/doc/cof/art.8.html

Prayers and Praises

MMN:Approximately one-fourth of Mennonite Mission Network overseas personnel serve in countries where they cannot openly share the good news of Jesus. Pray that they may find ways to express God's love, forgiveness and acceptance through their lives.

VMM: Thank God for Skip and Carol Tobin's availability to speak to groups about God's purpose in the world, and their encouragement for everyone to listen closely for God's call on their lives. The Tobins served in Thailand with EMM and VMM and recently returned to Harrisonburg.

Pray for the local services for people in need: Love Inc., Shelter for Help in Emergency, Food Bank, Salvation Army, IMPACT--a justice ministry and PACEM-- the initiative for the homeless.

Gathering in Christ's name

Hearing

Responding

Today

Announcements

Prayers and Praises