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First Baptist Church847 Cleveland Street Greenville, South Carolina 29601-4495 (864) 233-2527 www.firstbaptistgreenville.com
A Community of Believers. Each Member A Minister.
Mary Carol AndersonYouth and Recreation
Bootie CothranMedia and Technology
Jim DantSenior Minister
Vivian HamiltonMusic and Worship
Priscilla HarrisChildren’s Music
Amy JoyeYouth Music
Jenna ManningChurch Operations
Kyle MatthewsWorship Arts
Juli MorrowPreschool
Rosemary NewInfant-Toddler Program
Kendra PlatingPastoral Care
Becky RamseyChildren
Matt RollinsSpiritual Formation and
Outreach
Frank A. SmithNeighborhood Partnership and Christian Fellowship
Kathy StewartKindergarten
Laura StoutMissions
Looking Ahead
Sunday morning worship service broadcasts:
WLFJ-AM 660 and FM 92.9
www.firstbaptistgreenville.com/watchlisten-live/
Links to view or listen to previous services are also available.
© 2017 First Baptist Church, Greenville, SC (all rights reserved)
June 25, 11:30amTour of the Church – Meet at Re-
ception Desk
June 25, 3:00pmWelcome Home Reception in
Honor of Springfield Baptist Church’s 150th Anniversary (Fel-lowship Hall)
June 25, 5:00pmLGBTQ and Friends Support
Group (Parlor)
June 28, 5:00-7:00pmYouth Bible Study @ AYMC
June 28, 5:30-7:30pmPreschool Vacation Bible School
June 28, 7:00pmSanctuary Choir Summer Soirée
June 29, 9:00am-1:00pmYouth Mission Possible and Lunch
Club @ AYMC
July 1-4AYMC Closed for Independence
Day
July 2, 10:30amJim Dant, Proclaimer
July 3-4Church Offices Closed for Inde-
pendence Day
July 5Youth to Dollywood
July 9, 9:15amJoint Adult Sunday School (Fel-
lowship Hall)
July 9, 10:30amJim Dant, Proclaimer
July 10-13, 9:00am-NoonArt Experience for Preschool Chil-
dren (4 and 5 Year Old Sunday School Classes)
July 11-14Camp Prism
July 12, 10:00amRoadrunners Lunch at A Day in
the Country Café and Enjoy “Dixie Swim Club” at Flat Rock Playhouse
July 12, 5:00-7:00pmYouth Bible Study @ AYMC
July 13, 9:00am-1:00pmYouth Mission Possible and Lunch
Club (Moe’s, Augusta)
July 16, 9:15amJoint Adult Sunday School (Fel-
lowship Hall)
Larsen Quattlebaum and Celie Ann Rollins are the acolytes today.
Judy Snyder is the guest organist. Judy serves on the Personnel and Intern Committees. She and her husband, John, sing in the Sanctuary Choir and are members of the Price Class. They have three children and 5 grandchildren.
Priscilla Harris, soprano, is today’s soloist. In addition to serving as the Children’s Choir Coordinator, Priscilla directs the Treble Choir and plays with the Bell Tower Ringers. She and her husband, John, sing in the Sanctuary Choir and have two children: Sophie and Will.
Marie Richards is the deacon assisting in worship today. Marie and her husband, Jason, are members of the Koinonia Class and have two children: Max and Sarah.
The Sanctuary flowers, given by Anne and Paula Cargill, are in loving memory of their parents, John Edwin and Mabel Bridges Cargill, on the occasion of their 90th wedding anniversary.
Music selections include: “O Be Joyful!” by Charles Tompkins; and “Psalm 86” by Carl J. Nygard Jr., © 1984 Hinshaw Music, Inc.
June 25, 2017
Third Sunday after Pentecost
Ten Thirty O’clock
Tour of the Churchfollowing worship
Meet at Reception Desk.
Financial Needs as of 6/24$1,201,925
Receipts as of 6/21$1,097,220 Welcome Home
Reception Honoring
Springfield Baptist – 150 Years
3:00pm
Fellowship Hall
*Please stand as you are able. Please silence all electronic devices.Please contact an usher for a hearing aid receiver or magnifying glass.
Enter with JoyCall to Worship “O Be Joyful!” Charles Tompkins
O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands!Serve the Lord with gladness
And come before his presence with a song! – Psalm 100:1
Prayer for Worship Frank Smith
Welcoming God, we come before you with joy in our hearts and praise on our lips. You are our God, and we are your people – now and always. Inhabit our praises and fill us with your Spirit that we may share your joy with all creation. Amen.
*Processional Hymn 53 ELLACOMBE “With Joy We Come before You Lord”
(Stanzas 1-4 only)
*Opening Sentences
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.
Worship the Lord with gladness; come into God’s presence with singing.
Know that the Lord is God. It is God who made us and not we ourselves.
We are God’s people, and the sheep of God’s pasture.
Enter the Lord’s gates with thanksgiving, and God’s courts with praise. Give thanks to God, bless God’s name.
For the Lord is good; God’s steadfast love endures forever and the faithfulness of God to all generations. (Psalm 100)
*Response of Praise (hymn 53, stanza 5) ELLACOMBE
Praise God, the Creator, God the Christ from whom all blessings flow.Praise God the Holy Comforter, the Spirit we all know
Who fills our lives with grace and love and promises to stay,Whose tender mercies give us life and guide us through each day.
Welcome of Worshipers
Solo “His Eye Is on the Sparrow” Charles Gabriel
Worship with Gladness
Scripture Lessons Luke 18:9-14, 20:20-26 Kendra Plating
Page 853 of the Bible in the pew rack
Call to Prayer 211 “Spirit of the Living God” LIVING GOD
Please remain seated.
Prayer of Confession
O God, be merciful to me, a sinner. Just as Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out the moneychangers, clear our hearts of anything that robs us of relationship with you. Make our very lives living prayers that we may be seen as the face of God in your world. We pray this in the name of Jesus; Amen.
Words of Assurance
As the humble tax collector went home justified, we also have renewed relationship with God when we confess our sins. In the name of Jesus the Christ, we are forgiven.
Pastoral Prayer
*Children’s Hymn 222 “Blessed Assurance” ASSURANCE
All children first through fifth grades are invited to come to the front during
the singing of the last two stanzas of this hymn.
Children’s Sermon Luke 21:1-4 Annie Deaton
Choral Worship “Psalm 86” Carl J. Nygard Jr.
Hear my voice, O Lord, when I pray; Hear my prayer when I cry from the lowly place;
In your mercy, Lord, let me stay; Hear my voice, O Lord, when I pray.
Hear my voice, O Lord, when I cry; Hear my words when I call from the lowly place;
I will pray, O Lord, lest I die; Hear my voice, O Lord, when I cry.
From the grave’s descent You have taken me, When the men of the world have forsaken me.
In my day of need and my time of grief, Hear the prayer for my body and soul’s relief.
In the morning, Lord, I will singWith a song that will rise from the holy place,
And my praises, Lord, it will bring; In the morning, Lord, I will sing.Alleluia, Amen.
Sermon God’s Courts Matt Rollins
Commit with Thankfulness
*Invitation Hymn 383 KREMSER “We Praise Thee, O God, Our Redeemer”
*Invitation to Offering Marie Richards
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.... For the Lord is good; [God’s] steadfast love endures forever, and [God’s] faithfulness to all generations. (Psalm 100:1, 5)
Musical Offering Richard Purvis “O God, Unseen Yet Ever Near”
Introduction of New Members
Service and Fellowship of the Church
*Doxology (hymn 32) LASST UNS ERFEUEN
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below;
Alleluia! Alleluia!Praise God above, ye heav’nly host;
Creator, Christ, and Holy Ghost.Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Go with Love
*Benediction
*Choral Benediction Response John Rutter “Amen”
Postlude “Te Deum Laudamus” Aloys Claussmann
Our Service of Worship has ended.Our Worship through Service begins.