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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.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.
© 2018 First Baptist Church, Greenville, SC (all rights reserved)
Looking Ahead
Mary Carol AndersonYouth and Recreation
Bootie CothranMedia and Technology
Jim DantSenior Minister
Vivian HamiltonMusic and Worship
Priscilla HarrisChildren’s Music
Amy JoyeYouth Music
Shelton Ridge LoveOrganist
Jenna ManningChurch Operations
Dewanda MartinFirst Baptist Day School
Kyle MatthewsPastoral Care
Juli MorrowPreschool
Rosemary NewFirst Baptist Day School
Kendra PlatingPastoral Care
Becky RamseyChildren
Will RaybonAssociate Youth
Dylan RiggPastoral Resident
Matt RollinsSpiritual Formation and
Outreach
Frank A. SmithNeighborhood Partnership and Christian Fellowship
Kathy StewartFirst Baptist Day School
Laura StoutMissions
Mittie TaylorAYMC Director
August 30-September 3AYMC Closed for Floor Refinishing
and Observance of Labor Day
September 1-3Youth Fall Retreat at Rockmont
September 3Church Offices Closed in
Observance of Labor Day
September 5Wednesdays at First ResumeMidWeek Fellowship: Fruits of the
Spirit – The Barren TreeSeptember 7, 6:00pm
Senior Adult Banquet (Fellowship Hall)
September 7, 6:00-8:00pmChildren’s Ministries Event:
Movie and Pizza Night (AYMC Terrace Level)
September 9, 9:00amNew Member Orientation (F-307)
September 9, 9:30amProtecting Our Children (E-317)
September 9, 10:30amSenior Adult SundayCommunionDylan Rigg, Proclaimer
September 9, 4:00pmVocare Rehearsals Resume
(Choir Room)
September 9, 5:00-7:00pmSunday Night Live for Youth
Resumes (AYMC Terrace Level)
September 12Wednesdays at FirstMidWeek Fellowship: Fruits of the
Spirit – Love
September 13, 9:00am-4:00pmDay Retreat for Women:
Welcoming All of Ourselves in the Second Half of Life (AYMC)
September 13, NoonCanterbury Counseling Center’s
3rd Annual Illumination Luncheon (Christ Church Episcopal Parish House)
September 16, 10:30amJim Dant, ProclaimerSouth Carolina Governor’s School
for the Arts and Humanities Wind Ensemble
September 16, 11:30amState of the Church Stewardship
Lunch (Fellowship Hall)
William Austin and Molly Gilbert are the acolytes today.
Judy Snyder is the guest organist today. Judy serves on the Personnel and Ministry Education and Formation Committees. She and her husband, John, sing in the Sanctuary Choir. They have three children and five grandchildren.
Conducting the introit today is Bergsvein Toverud, Herring Church Music Intern. Bergsvein is beginning his senior year at Furman University.
Matthew Christopher is the soloist today. Matthew, a Herring Choral Scholar, is a senior at Furman University.
The flowers in the Sanctuary are given in memory of Carl and Sara Chalmers on what would have been their 71st wedding anniversary by Beth Chalmers Spurr.
Music selections today include: Little Prelude and Fugue in E minor by J.S. Bach; Two Shaker Hymns by Burton Bumgarner, © 2002 Hinshaw Music Inc.; “Gracious Spirit, Dwell with Me” arranged by K. Lee Scott, © 1984 Augsburg Publishing House; “May the Grace of Christ Our Savior” by Robert Powell, © 1966 Harold Flammer, Inc.; and Allegro from Concerto in B minor by Johann Gottfried Walther.
This Sanctuary is equipped with Hearing Loop. If you have a hearing aid equipped with a T-coil and switch to it, you will hear audio directly from our sound system.
September 2, 2018
Ten Thirty O’clock
Financial Needs as of 8/25$1,700,000
Receipts as of 8/29$1,591,715
*Please stand as you are able. Please silence all electronic devices.Please contact an usher for a hearing aid receiver or magnifying glass.
Words of Welcome
Prelude Little Prelude and Fugue in E minor J.S. Bach
Call to Worship Kendra Plating
I am sending a messenger, says the Lord,
To prepare the way before me.
Even now, a voice is crying out:
Prepare the way of the Lord!
Call to Worship “Come to Zion” arr. Burton Bumgarner Traditional Shaker Tune
Come to Zion, come to Zion, sinsick souls in sorrow bound.Lay your cares upon the altar where true healing may be found.
Shout halleluia! Halleluia! Praise resounds o’er land and sea.All who will may come and share the glories of this Jubilee!
– Traditional Shaker Text
Prayer for Worship
Holy God, through your prophets, you sent your word into the wilderness, crying out: Repent, seek forgiveness and prepare the way of the Lord! Now prepare the way in us and in our world that all flesh may know your saving grace through Jesus Christ. Amen.
*Processional Hymn 178 CRUSADERS’ HYMN “Fairest Lord Jesus”
Welcome to Worshipers
Solo “The Call” Ralph Vaughan Williams (from Five Mystical Songs)
Words of Faith
Scripture Lesson Malachi 3:1-7 Matt Rollins
page 778 of the Bible in the pew rack
Words of Commitment
*Invitation Hymn 142 MADRID “Come, Christians, Join to Sing”
*Invitation to Offering
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has looked favorably on his people and redeemed them. (Luke 1:68)
Musical Offering Robert Powell “May the Grace of Christ Our Savior”
Introduction of New Members
Service and Fellowship of the Church
Words of Blessing
*Doxology (Hymn 32) LASST UNS ERFREUEN
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!
*Benediction
*Choral Benediction Response Burton Bumgarner “On the Works of Our Hands”
On the work of our hands and the praise of our hearts,May the light of Thy countenance shine,
In the least ever faithful, abiding and true,Our service of joy shall be Thine.
May the halo of prayer, may the mantle of peaceAs heaven’s benediction descend,
Ordaining our lives for the mission of Christ,And love with our sacrifice blend.
– The Canterbury Shakers
Postlude Allegro Johann Gottfried Walther (from Concerto in B minor)
Our Service of Worship has ended.Our Worship through Service begins.
Pastoral Prayer
*Children’s Hymn 165 FAITHFULNESS “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”
All children through 5th grade are invited to the front for the children’s sermon
during the singing of the last two stanzas of the hymn.
Children’s Sermon Becky Ramsey
Choral Worship “Gracious Spirit, Dwell with Me” arr. K. Lee Scott
Gracious Spirit, dwell with me. I would gracious be;Help me now thy grace to see. I would be like Thee;
And with words that help and heal, thy life would mine reveal;And with actions bold and meek, for Christ, my Savior, speak.
Truthful Spirit, dwell with me, I would truthful be;Help me now thy truth to see. I would be like thee;
And with wisdom kind and clear, thy life in mine appear;And with actions born of thee, speak Christ’s sincerity.
Holy Spirit, dwell with me. I would holy be;Show thy mercy tenderly, make me more like thee;
Separate from sin, I would and cherish all things good,And whatever I can be give him who gave me thee.
Mighty Spirit, dwell with me, I would mighty be;Help me now thy power to see, I would be like thee;
’Gainst all weapons hell can wield, be thou my strength and shield;Let thy word my weapon be, Lord, thine the victory.
Gracious Spirit, dwell with me, I would be like thee! - St. 1-3 Thomas T. Lynch
Sermon I Have a Few Questions Jim Dant
Call to Prayer “O Lord, Hear My Prayer” Jacques Berthier