A Mere Man

*Responsive Lesson [See Right]

*Open Hymn Sing (2 songs)

Offertory Mr. Witt

*Doxology

Praise God from whom all blessings flow / Praise Him all creatures here below

Praise him above, ye heavenly host / Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.

*Scripture 1 Corinthians 3:1 – 9

Sermon Michael Hollinger

“A Mere Human?”

Invitation Hymn #562

“Be Thou My Vision”

*Benediction

*Congregational Response

May the grace of Christ our Savior / And the Father’s boundless love

With the Holy Spirit’s favor / Rest upon us from above. Amen.

* Congregation, please stand.

Depart To Serve

RESPONSIVE LESSON

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

So take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life.

Make them known to your children and your children’s children—

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which he prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;

Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings,

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own.

But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.

Only let us hold true to what we have attained.

Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin which clings so closely. Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Pv 15:3; Dt 4:9; Eph 2.10; Pv 7:2; Ps 17:8; Php 3:12-17;Heb 12:1-2

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Please join us on Saturday at 10am for a few hours of church cleanup – in anticipation of Homecoming, 9/16.

1 CORINTHIANS 3: 1 – 9 (ESV)

3 But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, 3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human?

5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. 9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.

PRAYER LIST

Cindy & Lee Thompson, Martha Puryear, Susan Schulz, Warren Lee, Irene Griffith, Cory Keely, Debbie Grigsby, Chris McLaughlin’s family,

Jeff Coleman, Long Branch Church