God may be calling YOU, but probably not on your cell phone. Please turn off your cell phone, or

1. Before the worship service begins, please turn off your cell phone. God may be calling YOU, but probably not on your cell phone. Please turn off your cell phone, or put it on vibrate.

2. Welcome! We are so glad you are here!

3. Prelude: • Immortal, Invisible, • God Only Wise • arr. Hal Hopson • The HandbellChoir

4. When Pammy and I returned from school in the fall of my junior year, terrible news unfolded: our English teacher had become a born-again Christian. Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies

5. It’s never the changes we want that change everything. JunotDiaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

6. People are not resistant to change. They make changes all the time. They are resistant to being changed. Bill Owens

7. If you can’t go to church and at least for a moment be given transcendence, if you can’t pass briefly from this life into the next, then I can’t see why anyone should go. Just a brief moment of transcendence causes you to come out of church a changed person. Garrison Keillor, former host, Prairie Home Companion

8. To encounter God is to change. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

9. Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can’t imagine. Kathleen Norris

10. New life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb. It starts in the dark. Barbara Brown Taylor, Episcopal priest

11. My sweet Lord…are you not my mother and more than my mother?...For when the hour of your delivery came you were placed on the hard bed of the cross, and your nerves and all your veins were broken. And truly it is no surprise that your veins burst when in one day you gave birth to the whole world. Marguerite d’Oingt, 13th century French nun

12. But we who would be born again, must wake our souls unnumbered times a day. George McDonald

13. We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly but does not take place within myself? And what good is it to me if Mary is full of grace if I am not also full of grace? What good is it to me for the Creator to give birth to his Son if I do not also give birth to him in my time and my culture? This, then, is the fullness of time; When the Son of God is begotten in us.Meister Eckhart

14. PRAYER OF TRANSFORMATION

15. HYMN • Immortal, Invisible, • God Only Wise • # 263 in the Blue Hymnals

16. Immortal, invisible, • God only wise,In light inaccessible • hid from our eyes,Most blessèd, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,Almighty, victorious, • Thy great name we praise.

17. Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light, Nor wanting, nor wasting, Thou rulest in might; Thy justice, like mountains, high soaring • Above Thy clouds, which are fountains of goodness • and love.

18. To all, life Thou givest, • to both great and small;In all life Thou livest, • the true life of all;We blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree,And wither and perish; but naught changeth Thee.

19. Thou reignest in glory, • Thou rulest in light,Thine angels adore Thee, • all veiling their sight;All praise we would render; • O help us to see'Tis only the splendor • of light hideth Thee!

20. Prayer for Forgiveness • (in unison) • Adapted from • David Adam

21. Lift us, Lord, out of fear into hope, out of frailty into strength, out of foolishness into sense. Lift us Lord. You came down to lift us. You descended to hell to lift us into heaven.

22. You entered death to raise us to life. Come, Lord, raise us up, from all that separates us from you. In the name of Jesus, who died and rose for us. Amen.

23. A Time for Silence You may use this time for silent prayer, meditation, or simplyto rest in the presence of God.

24. Assurance of Forgiveness

25. Glory be to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost; • As it was in the beginning, • is now, and ever shall be, • world without end. Amen. • As it was in the beginning, • is now, and ever shall be, • world without end. Amen. • Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. • Amen. Amen. Amen.

26. A TIME WITH THE Children

27. The News • of the • Community

28. Visitors, to First Church! Following worship, please join us on the patio for juice, coffee, and Ice Cream!!!!!!!!

29. Please date, fill out, and pass the red Friendship Register to your neighbor.

30. Good News Kidz our Sunday morning education program for children pre-K to 5th grade, has begun its Fall session, and today we celebrate withan and ice cream!!!!!!!! on the patio, following worship OPEN HOUSE

31. Senior High Youth Group Today, 5:00 p.m. at Starbucks on Young Circle

32. Monday, September 25th, 9:00 a.m. – Noon Friday, September 29th, 9:00 a.m. – Noon

33. Post-Irma Sharing Time Monday, September 25th, 7:00 p.m. In the Chapel

34. October 1st Following worship, we will enjoy a time of fellowship and good food at our annual Multicultural Food Festival! See bulletin announcement for details.

35. A Deacon’s Fund offering will be collected next Sunday. Please use the envelope provided in your bulletin.

36. Share-A-Meal will meet in the church kitchen on October 7th at 11:00 a.m. to prepare lunch for the homeless in our area.

37. Presbyterian Women’s (PW) FALL LUNCHEON Saturday, October 7th, Noon, Contact PW Moderator Kathryn Tyahla for details.

38. The pumpkins arrive on October 7that 4:00 p.m.!! Please call 954-922-8558 for a schedule of events.

39. SPECIAL MUSIC — • Amazing Grace • Ruth Artman • The Handbell Choir • The Anthem is a prayer. • Please, no applause.

40. Living into the Joy of Being a Child of God Being Born of God

41. Thanksgiving for the Word

42. O Word of God incarnate, O Wisdom from on high, O Truth unchanged, unchanging, O Light of our dark sky: We praise You for the radiance That from the hallowed page, A lantern to our footsteps, Shines on from age to age.

43. Scripture Reading— 1 John 2:28-3:3 (New Testament, Page 240 in pew Bible)

44. And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he is revealed we may have confidence and not be put to shame before him at his coming. If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who does right has been born of him.

45. See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

46. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is.

47. And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

48. Living into the Joy of Being a Child of God Being Born of God

49. * This We Believe • (In unison) • John 3:3-6, NRSV This We Believe (in unison) The Apostles’ Creed I believe in God the Father Almighty, creator 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 on the right hand of God the Father; from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sin, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. *Hymn of Commitment - Christ, When for Us You Were Baptized # 70 The News of the Community (Sing 2 times) Holy Spirit, come to us, Kindle in us the fire of your love. Holy Spirit, come to us. Holy Spirit, come to us. Prayers of the People & The Lord's Prayer - (Debtors version) (front of Hymnal, pg. 16) Response - Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me; Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me; Melt me, mold me, Fill me, use me. Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me.

50. “Very truly, I tell you, • no one can see • the kingdom of God without being born from above.” This We Believe (in unison) The Apostles’ Creed I believe in God the Father Almighty, creator 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 on the right hand of God the Father; from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sin, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. *Hymn of Commitment - Christ, When for Us You Were Baptized # 70 The News of the Community (Sing 2 times) Holy Spirit, come to us, Kindle in us the fire of your love. Holy Spirit, come to us. Holy Spirit, come to us. Prayers of the People & The Lord's Prayer - (Debtors version) (front of Hymnal, pg. 16) Response - Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me; Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me; Melt me, mold me, Fill me, use me. Spirit of the living God, Fall afresh on me.