09/08/2024 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 Second service of a 5 service Worship Series from the Discipleship Ministries
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Worship Series: "Uncommon Wisdom"
from www.umcdiscipleship.org

We’ve titled this worship series “Uncommon Wisdom” because we feel that these scripture lessons invite us to a less popular and underappreciated way of using scripture to look at the world around us. In a society whose only real success strategies appear to be exploitation, violence, and smear campaigns, these verses will show us another path to the good life. These passages might comfort or challenge us in strange ways that we haven’t necessarily come to expect from biblical texts. There’s nothing particularly Israelite in most of this literature, and two of the three books we will encounter don’t even mention God. We hope you will put in the extra work to understand these texts and challenge yourself and your hearers to let them speak truth to the realities of today.

This Service's Theme: Choosing How We Shall Live
Worship Planning Notes

This week, the lectionary text features three different couplets from Proverbs 22, all of which point us toward how to engage wisdom-driven decision-making in our daily lives.

Liturgical Resources
Preaching Notes

Lectionary Scriptures:
Proverbs 22:1-2,8-9,22-23; Psalm 125; James 2:1-10(11-13),14-17; Mark 7:24-37

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: