Red Letter Challenge - Serving
You were made to serve.
You need to serve.
You will experience the greatest fulfillment this side of heaven by serving.
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Call to Service
Pastor: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
All: Amen.
Pastor: Open our hearts, O Lord, and help us to listen.
All: Open our lives, O Lord, and prepare us to serve.
Pastor: Lord, be with us this day, helping us to put our priorities in order; so that we may faithfully serve You by serving others.
All: We often offer “lip service” to serving you, but when things get difficult, we shy away from the opportunity and the responsibility to serve. Forgive us, gracious Lord.
Pastor: Just as Jesus had patience with His disciples, so He has patience with us today. You are forgiven and strengthened to truly be Jesus' disciples, not counting the rewards, but rejoicing in the work.
All: Enable us to follow Your ways all the days of our lives. Amen.
I Will Follow
All Your ways are good
All Your ways are sure
I will trust in You alone
Higher than my sight
High above my life
I will trust in You alone
Where You go I'll go
Where You stay I'll stay
When You move I'll move
I will follow You
Who You love I'll love
How You serve I'll serve
If this life I lose
I will follow You
I will follow You
Light into the world
Light into my life
I will live for You alone
You're the One I seek
Knowing I will find
All I need in You alone
In You alone
Where You go I'll go
Where You stay I'll stay
When You move I'll move
I will follow You
Who You love I'll love
How You serve I'll serve
If this life I lose
I will follow You
I will follow You
In You there's life everlasting
In You there's freedom for my soul
In You there's joy unending joy
In You there's life everlasting
In You there's freedom for my soul
In You there's joy unending joy
And I will follow
Who You love I'll love
How You serve I'll serve
If this life I lose
I will follow
Where You go I'll go
Where You stay I'll stay
When You move I'll move
I will follow You
Who You love I'll love
How You serve I'll serve
If this life I lose
I will follow You
I will follow You
I will follow You
I will follow You
Scripture Reading
John 12:25-26 - “Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.”
Reflection
STP KIDS Dismissal
STP KIDS is the Children’s Ministry at St. Peter’s Edina, designed for all children from 6 months to 10 years old (Grade 5). Older children are welcome to participate as helpers. Our vision is to partner with parents in raising up a generation of children that will seek their God-given Kingdom mission and impact their world for Jesus!
Message: Serving
5 Principles
1. Being
2. Forgiving
3. Serving
4. Giving
5. Going
We want to serve Jesus because He has served us
Matthew 20:20-23 - Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him. “What is it you want?” he asked. She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.” “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” “We can,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father.”
Matthew 20:26-28 - Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Matthew 4:18-20 - As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” At once they left their nets and followed him.
You have been made by God to serve and to live for something bigger than yourself.
Matthew 5:14-16 - “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
Theme Video
Lord Help Us Walk Your Servant Way
Lord help us walk Your servant way
Wherever love may lead
And bending low forgetting self
Each serve the others need
You came to earth O Christ as Lord
But power You laid aside
You lived Your years in servanthood
In lowliness You died
No golden scepter but a towel
You place within the hands
Of those who seek to follow You
And live by Your commands
You bid us bend our human pride
Nor count ourselves above
The lowest place the meanest task
That waits the gift of love
Lord help us walk Your servant way
Wherever love may lead
And bending low forgetting self
Each serve the others need
Prayer
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Apostles Creed
All: I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate. Was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
The Lord’s Prayer
All: 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 and ever. Amen.
Blessing
Matthew 5:16 - "Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven."
We Are
Every secret every shame
Every fear every pain
Live inside the dark
But that's not who we are
We are children of the day
So wake up sleeper lift your head
We were meant for more than this
Fight the shadows conquer death
Make the most of the time we have left
We are the light of the world
We are the city on a hill
We are the light of the world
And we gotta we gotta we gotta
Let the light shine
We are the light of the world
We are the city on a hill
We are the light of the world
And we gotta we gotta we gotta
Let the light shine
We are called to spread the news
To tell the world the simple truth
Jesus came to save there's freedom in His name
So let His love break through
We are the light of the world
We are the city on a hill
We are the light of the world
And we gotta we gotta we gotta
Let the light shine
We are the light of the world
We are the city on a hill
We are the light of the world
And we gotta we gotta we gotta
Let the light shine
We are the light we are the light we are the light
So let your light shine brighter
We are the light we are the light we are the light
Jesus You are the light You are the light
You are the light
We will lift You high and shine shine shine
We are the light of the world
We are the city on a hill
We are the light of the world
And we gotta we gotta we gotta
Let the light shine
We are the light of the world
We are the city on a hill
We are the light of the world
And we gotta we gotta we gotta
Let the light shine
Let the light shine let the light shine
Let the light shine let the light shine
I Will Follow
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