TABERNACLE SECOND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST June 6, 2021 JOINING PRAYER Joe Greene, Lay Leader

Gathering Congregation (9:45 a.m.) OFFERING OUR GIFTS TO GOD (make your online gifts now)

EPISTLE “2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1” Joe Greene, Lay Leader GATHERING MUSIC “Sing to the King” Praise Team GOSPEL “:20-35” Pastor David PASTORAL WELCOME David E. Craig, Pastor SINGING “Come, Sinner, to the Gospel Feast” UMH 616 CALL TO WORSHIP “Psalm 138:1-2” Joe Greene, Lay Leader SERMON PRAYER (Pray for Pastor David as he prays for himself) GATHERING PRAYER Joe Greene, Lay Leader MESSAGE “Who Is Jesus” Pastor David PARISH NOTICES (Read the Weekly Spotlight) SPECIAL MUSIC “Sanctuary” Praise Team CHILDREN’S MOMENT (Children should remain seated) INVITATION TO COMMUNION Pastor David THE PEACE (Let us offer one another signs of reconciliation and love) WORDS OF INSTITUTION SINGING “Open My Eyes, That I May See” UMH 454 OUR LORDS PRAYER CALL TO PRAYER Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Merciful God, you sent your messengers the prophets name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth to preach repentance and prepare the way for our as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and salvation. Give us grace to heed their warnings and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who forsake our sins, that we may greet with joy the trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but coming of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer; who lives and deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the reigns with you and the , one God, now power, and the glory, forever. Amen. and forever. Amen. GIVING THANKS OVER THE BREAD AND CUP (The Book of Common Prayer, U.S.A, 20th Century, Alt.) TAKING OF THE BREAD AND CUP (All take together) SILENT PRAYER (We pray for ourselves) All PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION Joe Greene, Lay Leader PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE (We pray for others by name) All BENEDICTION AND BLESSING Pastor David PASTORAL PRAYER Pastor David SPECIAL MUSIC “Way Maker” Praise Team DEPART TO BE THE CHURCH All SPECIAL MUSIC ”Trust in You” Praise Team Servants of Worship

Pastor: Pastor David Craig Sharing Congregation (10:00 a.m.) Lay Reader: Joe Greene, Lay Leader Praise Team: Wendy Green, Matt Kapus, Maggie Steckler WELCOME TO LIVESTREAM Pastor David Audio/Visual: Terry Mathis, Bryan Potts, David Ruggieri Mark 3:20-35 20 And the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. 21 When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.” 22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons.” 23 And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. 26 And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come. 27 But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered.28 “Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter; 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have , but is guilty of an eternal sin”— 30 for they had said, “He has an TABERNACLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH .”31 Then his mother and his brothers came; and Gathering and Sharing in Combined Worship standing outside, they sent to him and called him. 32 A crowd was Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. sitting around him; and they said to him, “Your mother and your 33 brothers and sisters[a] are outside, asking for you.” And he 34 replied, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my 35 brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

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