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WELCOME TO WORSHIP | sunday | august 31, 2025

a diverse, inclusive church experiencing and reflecting the love, hope and joy of Jesus Christ

to each other and our community.

PRELUDE
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing | arr. Mark Hayes
Wes Kassulke, piano; Doug Friend, percussion

WELCOME | Pastor Cathy Johns

WAYS TO CONNECT | christchurchfl.org/ways2connect
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* CALL TO WORSHIP | Susan Spragg, liturgist
Come, people of God, let us love the Lord our God, with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

We come to love God with all that we are.

And let us love our neighbors as ourselves.

We come to love others, for love is the mark of our faith.

Faith without love is empty, but faith expressed through love brings life.

We will put our faith into action by loving as God loves.

Come, let us worship the God of love.

We worship the one who loves us and calls us to love.

* GATHERING HYMN
How Can We Name a Love | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 111 (verses 1,2,3,4)
How can we name a love that wakens heart and mind,

indwelling all we know or think or do or seek or find?

Within our daily world, in every human face,

Love’s echoes sound and God is found, hid in the commonplace.

If we awoke to life built on a rock of care

that asked no great reward but firm, assured, was simply there,

we can, with parents’ names, describe, and thus adore,

Love unconfined, a father kind, a mother strong and sure.

When people share a task, and strength and skills unite

in projects old or new, to make or do with shared delight,

our friend and partner’s will is better understood,

that all should share, create, and care, and know that life is good.

So in a hundred names, each day we all can meet

a presence, sensed and shown at work, at home, or in the street.

Yet every name we see, shines in a brighter sun:

In Christ alone is love full grown and life and hope begun.

* OPENING PRAYER
Holy and loving God, we gather here today in your presence, a community drawn together by your grace and love. Open our hearts today to receive your love more fully. Stir within us a passion for you that burns brightly and authentically. And as your love fills us, help it overflow naturally into love for those around us—our families, our friends, our neighbors, and even those who are difficult to love. Show us how to put our faith into action through acts of kindness, justice, mercy, and service. May our love not be merely words or feelings, but tangible expressions of your heart in our world. Send us forth to be your hands and feet to this community, loving you by loving others. Amen.

* AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
World Methodist Social Affirmation of Faith
We believe in God, creator of the world and of all people;
and in Jesus Christ, incarnate among us, who died and rose again;
and in the Holy Spirit, present with us to guide, strengthen, and comfort.

We rejoice in every sign of God’s kingdom: in the upholding of human dignity and community;
in every expression of love, justice, and reconciliation;
in each act of self-giving on behalf of others;
in the abundance of God’s gifts entrusted to us that all may have enough;
in all responsible use of the earth’s resources.

We confess our sin, individual and collective, by silence or action:
through the violation of human dignity based on race, class, age, sex, sexual identity, nation, or faith;
through the exploitation of people because of greed and indifference;
through the misuse of power in personal, communal, national, and international life;
through the search for security by those military and economic forces that threaten human existence;
through the abuse of technology which endangers the earth and all life upon it.

We commit ourselves individually and as a community to the way of Christ:
to take up the cross; to seek abundant life for all humanity; to struggle for peace with justice and freedom;
to risk ourselves in faith, hope, and love, praying that God’s kingdom may come.

* GLORIA PATRI
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.

Henry W. Greatorex | public domain | CCLI License # 487103

MUSIC MINISTRY
Feed My Lambs | Natalie Sleeth
Carrie Brooke, alto

SCRIPTURE
Luke 10:25-37 | New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
²⁵An expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” ²⁶He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” ²⁷He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself.” ²⁸And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”

²⁹But wanting to vindicate himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” ³⁰Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and took off, leaving him half dead. ³¹Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. ³²So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. ³³But a Samaritan while traveling came upon him, and when he saw him he was moved with compassion. ³⁴He went to him and bandaged his wounds, treating them with oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. ³⁵The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him, and when I come back I will repay you whatever more you spend.’ ³⁶Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?” ³⁷He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

These are the words of God for us, the people of God. Thanks be to God

MESSAGE
The Anatomy of Love | Do Love | Pastor Cathy Johns

OFFERING | Pastor Doug Johns
worshiping through the offering of our lives and gifts

· Place offerings in the plates or wooden boxes

· Give online at christchurchfl.org/give

· Text GIVE to 954.880.3885

· Mail a check to Christ Church, 4845 NE 25^th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308

Connect cards may also be placed with your offering.

Christ Church is a congregationally supported ministry. We thank you for your faithfulness as we reflect the love, hope and joy of Jesus to our community.

Today is a fifth Sunday, when you are asked to consider an extra-mile gift to Residing Hope, formerly the Florida United Methodist Children’s Home. Gifts may be made at christchurchfl.org/give below the regular giving form.

MUSIC MINISTRY

The Very Thought of Thee | Tom Fettke
Chancel Choir
Jesus, I love the very thought of thee. Jesus, the very thought of thee with sweetness fills my breast; but sweeter far thy face to see and in thy presence rest. O hope of every contrite heart, O joy of all the meek, to those who fall, how kind thou art, how good to those who seek! No voice can sing, no longing heart can frame, nor can the memory find a sweeter sound than thy blest name, O savior of mankind. Jesus, our only joy be thou, as thou our prize wilt be; Jesus, be glory now and through eternity. Jesus, I love the very thought of thee.

* DOXOLOGY
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Bourgeois & Ken | public domain | CCLI License # 487103

MORNING PRAYER

THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

* HYMN OF COMMITMENT
Together We Serve | LYONS
Together we serve, united by love,
inviting God’s world to the glorious feast.
We work and we pray through sorrow and joy,
extending your love to the last and the least.

We seek to become a beacon of hope,
a lamp for the heart and a light for the feet.
We learn, year by year, to let love shine through
until we see Christ in each person we meet.

We welcome the scarred, the wealthy, the poor,
the busy, the lonely, and all who need care.
We offer a home to those who will come,
our hands quick to help, our hearts ready to dare.

Together, by grace, we witness and work,
remembering Jesus, in whom we grow strong.
Together we serve in Spirit and truth,
remembering love is the strength of our song.

* SENDING FORTH

* RESPONSE
Spirit Song | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 347
O let the Son of God enfold you with his Spirit and his love.
Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.
O let him have the things that hold you, and his Spirit like a dove
will descend upon your life and make you whole.

Jesus, O Jesus, come and fill your lambs.
Jesus, O Jesus, come and fill your lambs.

MUSIC FOR CLOSING
Recessional in C | John S. Dixon
Chuck Stanley, organ

* please stand in body or spirit.

Join us next Sunday. At the 9am service, we will celebrate the ministry of Christ Church School with the message Great Things, based on Ephesians 3:20. At 11am, we will continue the message series The Anatomy of Love , with the message Even When They are Strangers.

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