Worship Service
10:30 A.M. The Wesley Challenge January 30, 2022
PRELUDE Mary Porter
WELCOME and ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: We come before God as equal in God’s sight.
People: God knows us thoroughly and loves us completely.
Leader: None of us is perfect and without blemish.
People: Yet God has called us children and asked us to be
compassionate and responsible in our caring and witness.
Leader: We are called to joyful obedience in God’s realm.
People: Thanks be to God who trusts us and pours abundant love on
us. AMEN.
OPENING PRAYER (inspired by Luke 18: 9-14)
Lord our God,
you yourself remind us through your holy people
that all our religious practices are not worth anything
if we use them to bend you our way.
God, may we come to you in humility and repentance,
ready to encounter you in love and to turn your way.
Accept us as your sons and daughters,
together with Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord forever. Amen
~ from the Order of Carmelites
HYMN O Jesus, I Have Promised No. 396
PASTORAL PRAYER & LORD’S PRAYER Rev. Patricia Pena
BAPTISM Rev. Patricia Pena
WORSHIP WITH OUR TITHES AND OUR OFFERINGS
Doxology “Praise God, from Whom all Blessings Flow” No. 94
SCRIPTURE READING Luke 18:9-14
HYMN “This Little Light of Mine” No. 585
SERMON Do You Ever Thank God You Are Not Like Others?
Rev. Patricia Pena
HYMN Lord, I Want to Be a Christian No. 402
BENEDICTION Rev. Patricia Pena
POSTLUDE Mary Porter
Being presented for baptism:
Jiovanni Alvarado Parents: James & Jeanette Alvarado
Leonardo Ferrer Norma Vidal & Eric Ferrer
Sofia Santiago Jose & Alondra Santiago
Layla Santiago
Please complete the attendance card attached to the
announcement page as we like to know that you worshipped with
us today. Tear it off and put it in the offering basket as you leave.
The Wesley Challenge
Relationship with Others: An Outward Focus
1. Do I thank God that I am not like others?
2. Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that
I am better than I am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?
3. Do I confidentially pass on to others what was told to me in
confidence?
4. Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy or distrustful?
5. Am I honest in all my actions and words, or do I exaggerate?
6. Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold
resentment toward, or disregard?
7. When did I last speak to someone about my faith?
Christ United Methodist Church
Rev. Patricia Pena
1430 Homestead Road North, Lehigh Acres, Florida 33936
Phone: (239) 369-1433 FAX: 1-844-870-7817
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RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHERS: AN OUTWARD FOCUS
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