Community United Methodist Church
Quincy, CA
October 25, 2020/Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost
Reformation Sunday
WELCOME EVERYONE!! We are happy you are worshiping with us today, wherever and whenever you are worshiping. Please feel free to leave us a message or leave a comment in the video and let us know how we can best connect with you, pray for you, and where you are joining us from whether it’s Quincy or the rest of the world. We are a church where ALL are welcome!!
UMC Mission:
To Make Disciples of Jesus Christ For the Transformation of the World
Community UMC Mission:
We are a Christ-centered community, joyfully committed to being His ambassadors. In the fellowship of His love and grace, we grow in Christ through the study of God’s word, prayer and worship; living out our faith in service to others.
Please participate as fully as you wish, or simply watch and take it all in.
FWS – Th Faith We Sing (Black Hymnal)
UMH – The United Methodist Hymnal (Red Hymnal)
Gathering Music: O God of Love, O King of Peace, arr. David Lackely[i]
Welcome Rev. Andrew Davis
Opening Prayer: “I Am Tempted to Hate”
Eternal God,
I can identify hatred by its mean little eyes
and its clinched fists.
Make me big enough to love, love, love.
I know injury when I have suffered it.
Help me to be magnanimous as our Lord Jesus was.
I know about doubt.
I have felt it threaten to shake my security to pieces.
Give me the kind of faith
that hangs on and hangs in there.
Deliver me from incapacitating despair; wander with me
in whatever my particular kind of darkness may be. And when I am sad,
let not my sadness so overwhelm me that I forget the rumble of joy
at the heart of the universe. I know I ask a lot, O God,
when I ask for these gifts of the Spirit.
So I rest back for these moments of prayer on my faith that you are.
I breathe deeply and relax the tense will, the rigid self-control,
the taut fixed features
of the image I maintain before my fellow human beings. I just am who I am with you,
O God of Life.
Make me an instrument of your peace,
so that where there is hatred, I can love, where there is injury, I can pardon.
In the spirit of him
Who was the great instrument of your salvation,
Even Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. [ii]
Hymn of Praise: A Mighty Fortress – UMH 110
1. A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;
Our helper he amid the flood, of mortal ills prevailing.
For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe;
His craft and power are great, and armed with cruel hate,
On earth is not his equal.
2. Did we in our own strength confide, our striving would be losing,
Were not the right man on our side, the man of God’s own choosing.
Dost ask who that may be? Christ Jesus, it is he;
Lord Sabaoth, his name, from age to age the same,
And he must win the battle.
3. And though this world, with devils filled, should threaten to undo us,
We will not fear, for God has willed, his truth to triumph through us.
The Prince of Darkness grim, we tremble not for him;
His rage we can endure, for lo, his doom is sure;
One little word shall fell him.
4. That word above all earthly powers, no thanks to them, abideth;
The Spirit and the gifts are ours, thru him who with us sideth.
Let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also
The body they may kill, God’s truth abideth still;
His kingdom is forever.
Handbell Ensemble: What a Friend We Have in Jesus,
arr. Patricia Sanders Cota[iii]
Gospel Lesson: Matthew 22: 34-46 (NRSV)
34 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, 35 and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” 37 He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them this question: 42 “What do you think of the Messiah? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.” 43 He said to them, “How is it then that David by the Spirit[ calls him Lord, saying,
44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet”’?
45 If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?” 46 No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions
The Word of God for the People of God…Thanks be to God!
Meditation: “Pressing On: On These Two Commandments”
Response: Love The Lord Your God – FWS 2168
Love the Lord, your God, with all your heart.
Love the Lord, your God, with all your soul.
Love the Lord, your God, with all your mind.
Love the Lord, you God, with all you are.[iv]
Moment of Stillness/Prayers of the People/The Lord’s Prayer:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Closing Hymn: Make Me a Channel of Your Peace – FWS 2171
1. Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love.
Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord
And where there’s doubt, true faith in you.
2. Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, only light,
And where there’s sadness, ever joy.
3. Oh Master, grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love with all my soul.
4. Make me a channel of your peace.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving of ourselves that we receive,
And in dying that we are born to eternal life.[v]
Blessing & Sending Forth
Please join us on Zoom at 11:00am this Sunday morning for a Coffee Hour following for a time of fellowship and casual conversation on Sunday. For the Zoom link, please send us an e-mail at QuincyUMC@sbcglobal.net.
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P.O. Box 766, Quincy, CA 95971
Tel/Fax (530)283-1740
email:quincyumc@sbcglobal.net
Church Website: www.quincymethodist.org
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Community UMC Office Hours:
Closed to the public until further notice due to COVID-19 Precautions
Rev. Andrew Davis
Pastor Andrew’s E-mail: Andrew.davis@cnumc.org
Pastor Andrew’s Google Voice Number: 530-238-5723
During the COVID-19 closure of our buildings, Pastor Andrew cannot meet in-office although can meet outside in the yard or on the porch (with masks and socially distanced). He is available by phone, e-mail, or text between 10:00am-7:00pm Monday-Thursday and Saturday. He can also meet one-on-one via Zoom or phone by appointment. Pastor Andrew takes Fridays off and is not available on Fridays except for emergencies.
[i] “O God of Love, O King of Peace,” arr. David Lackley. ©2019 Lorenz Publishing Corp.. All Rights Reserved. Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, License# A-735696. All Rights Reserved.
[ii] Kenneth G. Phifer, A Book of Uncommon Prayer, The Upper Room, p.48. Used with Permission.
[iii] “What a Friend we Have in Jesus,” Music by Charles C. Converse, arr. Patricia Sanders Cota. ©1991 Desert Flower Music. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License# A-735696. All Rights Reserved.
[iv] “Love the Lord Your God,” Words & Music by Jean & Jim Strathdee. ©1996 Agape, (A Division of Hope Publishing Co.). All Rights Reserved. Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, License# A-735696. All Rights Reserved.
[v] “Make Me a Channel of Your Peace,” Words Prayer of St. Francis, adapt. By Sebastian Temple; Music by Sebastian Temple. ©1967 OCP Publications. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License# A-735696. All Rights Reserved.
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