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October 27, 2019 Reformation Sunday Preparing for worship Have you experienced beauty this week? cramped in a small metal tube at 35,000 feet This is a question I have been pondering since being hurled through the air at 500 miles an reading the book Lessons Learned: Practical hour. What is beautiful about this potentially Insights into Student Choir Ministry by Randy harrowing experience? Then, I looked at the Edwards, minister of music at Woodland couple next to me and remembered observing Baptist Church in San Antonio and director of them enter the plane, finding their seats, the San Antonio Youth Chorale. putting up luggage, sitting down and settling in I decided to read this book to help me further for the ride. There was a such a vibe of kindness my knowledge and practice of student choir and acceptance I was picking up by observing ministry. Ready for reading practical wisdom their conversation and general regard for each from one of the most brilliant youth choir other. It was beauty exhibited in the relational directors, I was surprised at the very first behavior between two people. Beauty of another chapter, titled “Beauty.” Edwards wrote not of sort. lists of dos and don’ts, nor of particular beauty How might we experience beauty today? in music, but beauty that we experience in any Of course, we will hear wonderful hymns and form and especially helping students to be ensembles, and we will see the dazzling display cognizant of experiencing beauty around us. of the red paraments, but what will you touch, One exercise in the chapter implored readers smell and taste today that will be beautiful? to take a minute and observe three things of We find beauty in the fragrance of the flowers beauty. I was on an airplane in transit from this morning, the touch of passing peace to Denver to Dallas while reading this book. our friends in fellowship. And surely anyone Immediately, I looked out the window and saw who has had a cookie made by Judy and Collin the big, beautiful blue sky with clouds and the Yarborough has tasted what delectable beauty earth below with its beautiful patchwork of is. farmland as if quilted together. So, take a minute, identify and experience the Of course, this was too easy. I needed a beauty around you. challenge for number three. However, I was —Jeff Brummel Wilshire Baptist Church 4316 Abrams Road | Dallas, Texas 75214 (214) 452-3100 | www.wilshirebc.org Partnered with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Building a Community of Faith Shaped by the Spirit of Jesus Christ ON THE COVER: The Good Samaritan, Aimé Morot, 1880. Housed at the Petit Palais, Paris. 2 October 27, 2019 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. Reformation Sunday Chiming of the Hour The people of Wilshire gather this morning to worship God. In order for this service of worship to be focused upon that purpose, please turn off all cell phones, pagers and alarm watches. Prelude All Creatures of Our God and King arr. Cynthia Dobrinski Carillon Ringers Ralph Manuel, director Call to Worship Antiphonal Psalm arr. Jon Paige Youth Choir Alissa Payne, pianist; Luke Wingfield, trumpet Praise ye the Lord, ye heavenly hosts! Praise ye the Lord! Praise God for his marvelous deeds! Praise him with trumpet blast! Praise him with cymbal crash! Praise him with song, and rejoice! Praise him with strings and flute! Praise him with harp and lute! Praise him and lift up your voice! Praise ye the Lord, rejoice with glad singing! Rejoice! Opening Sentences Sunny Carroum / Jessica Capps On this Reformation Sunday, we gather as one expression of the worldwide communion of Christians, united in a common faith expressed in different traditions. We have been formed into a church that is always re-forming, listening for the voice of the Holy Spirit, following the pattern of Jesus and giving worship to God our Creator. We find in the fulness of God’s work in the world a mighty fortress for our faith. +Hymn 418 A Mighty Fortress ein’ feste burg Greeting to Worshipers Tiffany Wright / Leigh Ann Brown Guests are invited to take a Response Card from the pew rack, complete it and place it in the offering plate when it is passed later in the service. You also are invited to take the red fabric rose from the card and place it on your lapel or blouse to help others identify that you are our honored guest today. Prayer concerns will be received and prayed for this week when listed on an intercessory prayer card from the pew rack and placed in the offering plate. *8:30 worship service / **11:00 worship service +All congregants who are able are invited to stand. Hearing devices are available in the Narthex and South Atrium. 3 Hebrew Scripture Reading — Leviticus 19:9–18 Jill Granberry / Allyson Cook When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You shall not strip your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the alien: I am the Lord your God. You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; and you shall not lie to one another. And you shall not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your God: I am the Lord. You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer until morning. You shall not revile the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind; you shall fear your God: I am the Lord. You shall not render an unjust judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbor. You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not profit by the blood of your neighbor: I am the Lord. You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove your neighbor, or you will incur guilt yourself. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Cuando llegue el tiempo de la cosecha, no sieguen hasta el último rincón de sus campos ni recojan todas las espigas que allí queden. No rebusquen hasta el último racimo de sus viñas, ni recojan las uvas que se hayan caído. Déjenlas para los pobres y los extranjeros. Yo soy el Señor su Dios. No roben. No mientan. No engañen a su prójimo. No juren en mi nombre solo por jurar, ni profanen el nombre de su Dios. Yo soy el Señor. No explotes a tu prójimo, ni lo despojes de nada. No retengas el salario de tu jornalero hasta el día siguiente. No maldigas al sordo, ni le pongas tropiezos al ciego, sino teme a tu Dios. Yo soy el Señor. No perviertas la justicia, ni te muestres parcial en favor del pobre o del rico, sino juzga a todos con justicia. No andes difundiendo calumnias entre tu pueblo, ni expongas la vida de tu prójimo con falsos testimonios. Yo soy el Señor. No alimentes odios secretos contra tu hermano, sino reprende con franqueza a tu prójimo para que no sufras las consecuencias de su pecado. No seas vengativo con tu prójimo, ni le guardes rencor. Ama a tu prójimo como a ti mismo. Yo soy el Señor. Esta es la palabra del Señor. Gracias a Dios. Generations Conversation Jared Jaggers and George Mason +Hymn 307 All Creatures of Our God and King lasst uns erfreuen Prayers of the People Carolyn Murray / Judy Yarbrough Giving of Tithes and Offerings One of the best ways to ensure faithful giving is to schedule a recurring gift through the Wilshire website. Such gifts may take the form of automated bank drafts or credit or debit card transactions. You set the schedule and the amount. Learn more by scanning the QR Code here or visiting wilshirebc.org/give or by visiting the Give section of the Wilshire app for smartphones. 4 Offertory Air in D J.S. Bach/arr. William H. Mathis Carillon Ringers +Offertory Response old 100th Our God is making all things new, a promise that we know is true. Through eyes of faith we long to see a love-transformed community. A place where truth and justice reign and healing triumphs over pain, Where all have dignity and worth and peace is passed throughout the earth. +Gospel Reading — Luke 10:25–37 Mark Wingfield Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” He 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.” And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.” But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.