08/18/2024 Service

Sources of Information for Today's Online Service
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Bethel Worship Planning Documents
2024 Monthly Worship Calendar
2024 RCL 2 page Summary
Bethel Weekly Worship Planning worksheet
2023 Annual Program Planning worksheet

Guidance from UMC Discipleship Ministries
Weekly Worship Planning Series

This is the Sixth service of a 7 service Worship Series from the Discipleship Ministries
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Worship Series: "Worship with Rejoicing"
from www.umcdiscipleship.org

In this series, we invite you to consider that, for David, worship was life. Worship wasn’t something David did, we might say; it wasn’t a specific time in the day or week. Rather, worship was who he was. David lived and breathed worship. Yes, sometimes he got it wrong; sometimes he followed impulses that led him astray. And sometimes he got confused about who was the object of this worship and got in the way of the God he loved. But through it all, David lived as though his life was an offering to God.

This Service's Theme: Benediction
Worship Planning Notes

“Ask what I should give you” (3:5). Notice that God doesn’t ask Solomon a question. God commands Solomon to ask. We often end up focusing on the wisdom Solomon requests, but what if we began with God’s command? What might God’s command and Solomon’s response tell us about benediction?

Liturgical Resources
Preaching Notes

Lectionary Scriptures:
1 Kings 2:10-12;; Psalm 111; Ephesians 5:15-20; John 6:51-58

Sources of Music for the following hymns are:

- UMH CD.....UDM - DM Accompaniment..... MM/DD/YY - Recorded Service

Hymns Considered For the UDM service this week: