First Baptist Church847 Cleveland Street Greenville, South Carolina 29601-4495 (864) 233-2527 www.firstbaptistgreenville.com

A Community of Believers. Each Member A Minister.

Mary Carol AndersonYouth and Recreation

Bootie CothranMedia and Technology

Jim DantSenior Minister

Vivian HamiltonMusic and Worship

Priscilla HarrisChildren’s Music

Amy JoyeYouth Music

Jenna ManningChurch Operations

Kyle MatthewsWorship Arts

Juli MorrowPreschool

Rosemary NewInfant-Toddler Program

Kendra PlatingPastoral Care

Becky RamseyChildren

Matt RollinsSpiritual Formation and

Outreach

Frank A. SmithNeighborhood Partnership and Christian Fellowship

Kathy StewartKindergarten

Laura StoutMissions

Looking Ahead

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.

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June 25, 11:30amTour of the Church – Meet at Re-

ception Desk

June 25, 3:00pmWelcome Home Reception in

Honor of Springfield Baptist Church’s 150th Anniversary (Fel-lowship Hall)

June 25, 5:00pmLGBTQ and Friends Support

Group (Parlor)

June 28, 5:00-7:00pmYouth Bible Study @ AYMC

June 28, 5:30-7:30pmPreschool Vacation Bible School

June 28, 7:00pmSanctuary Choir Summer Soirée

June 29, 9:00am-1:00pmYouth Mission Possible and Lunch

Club @ AYMC

July 1-4AYMC Closed for Independence

Day

July 2, 10:30amJim Dant, Proclaimer

July 3-4Church Offices Closed for Inde-

pendence Day

July 5Youth to Dollywood

July 9, 9:15amJoint Adult Sunday School (Fel-

lowship Hall)

July 9, 10:30amJim Dant, Proclaimer

July 10-13, 9:00am-NoonArt Experience for Preschool Chil-

dren (4 and 5 Year Old Sunday School Classes)

July 11-14Camp Prism

July 12, 10:00amRoadrunners Lunch at A Day in

the Country Café and Enjoy “Dixie Swim Club” at Flat Rock Playhouse

July 12, 5:00-7:00pmYouth Bible Study @ AYMC

July 13, 9:00am-1:00pmYouth Mission Possible and Lunch

Club (Moe’s, Augusta)

July 16, 9:15amJoint Adult Sunday School (Fel-

lowship Hall)

Larsen Quattlebaum and Celie Ann Rollins are the acolytes today.

Judy Snyder is the guest organist. Judy serves on the Personnel and Intern Committees. She and her husband, John, sing in the Sanctuary Choir and are members of the Price Class. They have three children and 5 grandchildren.

Priscilla Harris, soprano, is today’s soloist. In addition to serving as the Children’s Choir Coordinator, Priscilla directs the Treble Choir and plays with the Bell Tower Ringers. She and her husband, John, sing in the Sanctuary Choir and have two children: Sophie and Will.

Marie Richards is the deacon assisting in worship today. Marie and her husband, Jason, are members of the Koinonia Class and have two children: Max and Sarah.

The Sanctuary flowers, given by Anne and Paula Cargill, are in loving memory of their parents, John Edwin and Mabel Bridges Cargill, on the occasion of their 90th wedding anniversary.

Music selections include: “O Be Joyful!” by Charles Tompkins; and “Psalm 86” by Carl J. Nygard Jr., © 1984 Hinshaw Music, Inc.

June 25, 2017

Third Sunday after Pentecost

Ten Thirty O’clock

Tour of the Churchfollowing worship

Meet at Reception Desk.

Financial Needs as of 6/24$1,201,925

Receipts as of 6/21$1,097,220 Welcome Home

Reception Honoring

Springfield Baptist – 150 Years

3:00pm

Fellowship Hall

*Please stand as you are able. Please silence all electronic devices.Please contact an usher for a hearing aid receiver or magnifying glass.

Enter with JoyCall to Worship “O Be Joyful!” Charles Tompkins

O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands!Serve the Lord with gladness

And come before his presence with a song! – Psalm 100:1

Prayer for Worship Frank Smith

Welcoming God, we come before you with joy in our hearts and praise on our lips. You are our God, and we are your people – now and always. Inhabit our praises and fill us with your Spirit that we may share your joy with all creation. Amen.

*Processional Hymn 53 ELLACOMBE “With Joy We Come before You Lord”

(Stanzas 1-4 only)

*Opening Sentences

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.

Worship the Lord with gladness; come into God’s presence with singing.

Know that the Lord is God. It is God who made us and not we ourselves.

We are God’s people, and the sheep of God’s pasture.

Enter the Lord’s gates with thanksgiving, and God’s courts with praise. Give thanks to God, bless God’s name.

For the Lord is good; God’s steadfast love endures forever and the faithfulness of God to all generations. (Psalm 100)

*Response of Praise (hymn 53, stanza 5) ELLACOMBE

Praise God, the Creator, God the Christ from whom all blessings flow.Praise God the Holy Comforter, the Spirit we all know

Who fills our lives with grace and love and promises to stay,Whose tender mercies give us life and guide us through each day.

Welcome of Worshipers

Solo “His Eye Is on the Sparrow” Charles Gabriel

Worship with Gladness

Scripture Lessons Luke 18:9-14, 20:20-26 Kendra Plating

Page 853 of the Bible in the pew rack

Call to Prayer 211 “Spirit of the Living God” LIVING GOD

Please remain seated.

Prayer of Confession

O God, be merciful to me, a sinner. Just as Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out the moneychangers, clear our hearts of anything that robs us of relationship with you. Make our very lives living prayers that we may be seen as the face of God in your world. We pray this in the name of Jesus; Amen.

Words of Assurance

As the humble tax collector went home justified, we also have renewed relationship with God when we confess our sins. In the name of Jesus the Christ, we are forgiven.

Pastoral Prayer

*Children’s Hymn 222 “Blessed Assurance” ASSURANCE

All children first through fifth grades are invited to come to the front during

the singing of the last two stanzas of this hymn.

Children’s Sermon Luke 21:1-4 Annie Deaton

Choral Worship “Psalm 86” Carl J. Nygard Jr.

Hear my voice, O Lord, when I pray; Hear my prayer when I cry from the lowly place;

In your mercy, Lord, let me stay; Hear my voice, O Lord, when I pray.

Hear my voice, O Lord, when I cry; Hear my words when I call from the lowly place;

I will pray, O Lord, lest I die; Hear my voice, O Lord, when I cry.

From the grave’s descent You have taken me, When the men of the world have forsaken me.

In my day of need and my time of grief, Hear the prayer for my body and soul’s relief.

In the morning, Lord, I will singWith a song that will rise from the holy place,

And my praises, Lord, it will bring; In the morning, Lord, I will sing.Alleluia, Amen.

Sermon God’s Courts Matt Rollins

Commit with Thankfulness

*Invitation Hymn 383 KREMSER “We Praise Thee, O God, Our Redeemer”

*Invitation to Offering Marie Richards

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.... For the Lord is good; [God’s] steadfast love endures forever, and [God’s] faithfulness to all generations. (Psalm 100:1, 5)

Musical Offering Richard Purvis “O God, Unseen Yet Ever Near”

Introduction of New Members

Service and Fellowship of the Church

*Doxology (hymn 32) LASST UNS ERFEUEN

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!

Go with Love

*Benediction

*Choral Benediction Response John Rutter “Amen”

Postlude “Te Deum Laudamus” Aloys Claussmann

Our Service of Worship has ended.Our Worship through Service begins.