Traditional Services

WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH

TRADITIONAL SERVICES

Wesley Sanctuary 7.30am | 9.30am (Live-streamed) | 11.30am | 5.00pm

Infant & Child Baptism Service (5.00pm)

29 June 2025 | 3rd Sunday after Pentecost

Liturgical Colour: Green (Ordinary Time)

Lectionary Readings: 2 Kings 2:1–2, 6–14;
Psalm 77:1–2, 11–20,
Galatians 5:1, 13–25; Luke 9:51–62

Songs: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (UMH 139)
A Prayer for Humility
God, Whose Giving Knows No Ending
Sent Forth by God’s Blessing (UMH 664)

Sermon: Giving to God (1 Chronicles 29:10–19) 

I.  GATHERING

We gather in the Lord’s name weekly to be renewed in our hearts and minds. Our worship of God is a response to his revelation as he reveals his truth to us through Scripture, sermon, prayers and songs 

MEDITATION VERSES

I cried out to God for help; 
I cried out to God to hear me.
When I was in distress, I sought the Lord;
at night I stretched out untiring hands,
and I would not be comforted.
Psalm 77:1–2 

I will remember the deeds of the LORD; . . . 
I will consider all your works
and meditate on all your mighty deeds.
Psalm 77:11a, 12

PREPARATION PRAYER 

Dear God, silence all voices within our minds but your own. 
Help us to seek and be able to follow your will.
Speak, O Lord, for we are listening.
Amen. 

PRELUDE

GREETING

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Loving and holy God,
we confess that we hold tightly to our pride
and resist your transforming grace. 

You offer us freedom and a welcome place in your family,
yet we struggle, trying to earn what you have already given.
We cling to our old ways of doing and thinking. 

You call us your beloved children.
Help us hear and claim our new identity.
Free us from the bonds of limited imagination
and empower us to thrive in your life of faith and grace. 

We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen. 

CALL TO WORSHIP *1 Chronicles 29:10–13

Praise be to you, LORD,
  the God of our father Israel,
  from everlasting to everlasting.
Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power
  and the glory and the majesty and the splendor,
  for everything in heaven and earth is yours.
Yours, LORD, is the kingdom;
 you are exalted as head over all.
Wealth and honor come from you;
  you are the ruler of all things.
In your hands are strength and power
  to exalt and give strength to all.
ALL: Now, our God, we give you thanks,
  and praise your glorious name.

OPENING HYMN *
Praise to the Lord, the AlmightyUMH 139

SCRIPTURE READINGGalatians 5:1, 13–25

PRAYER HYMN
A Prayer for Humility
Words and Music: Mark Patterson, 2003

SILENT PRAYER

PRAYER OF THE PEOPLE

THE LORD’S PRAYER (ASAS)

MUSICAL INTERLUDE

II.   SERMON      

III.   WE RESPOND IN SHARING AND GIVING

We respond to God’s Word through the sharing of peace, participating in and praying for the programs and initiatives of the church, as we seek to grow in our discipleship journey, offering time, money, and gifts where help is needed as God’s stewards. 

Baptism of Infants and Children (5.00pm)

Welcome

Sharing of God's Peace *
Shalom to You   UMH 666

Family News

Offertory Prayer

Tithes and Gifts to God

Doxology * 
Praise, God from Whom All Blessings Flow UMH 95

IV.   SENDING FORTH

Having been renewed in our hearts and minds, we are to go forth into the world as Christ’s ambassadors in the ministry of reconciliation. 

CLOSING HYMN * 
Sent Forth by God’s BlessingUMH 664

BENEDICTION *

POSTLUDE

Prayer Ministry at the Altar
If you need someone to pray with you, please proceed to the inner rails of the altar area. If you wish to pray alone, please use the outer rails.

* Congregation may stand.