Worship Leader – Brad Lepp
Speaker – Michele Rizoli
Song Leader: Geoff Wichert
Pianist: Audrey Wichert
Ushers: Ginny and Herb Buckwalter
Tech Team (In-Person / Online): Bob Loewen/ Ben Thiessen
Scripture: Philippians 2:1-13; Matthew 21:23-32
Additional Elements: Ted Steenburgh membership, Communion, World Communion Sunday, Anniversary
Gathering Hymn: VT 215 – O How shall I receive thee
Welcome & Land Acknowledgement
Announcements
Call to Worship: VT 472
Leader: Jesus Said: “I am the true vine. God is the Gardener.
All: God trims every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear even more fruit.
Leader: Remain in me, just as I also remain in you.
All: No branch can bear fruit by itself. It must remain in the vine.
Leader: In the same way, you cannot bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine. You are the branches.
All: If you remain in me, and I in you, you will bear much fruit.”
Scripture Reading: Philippians 2:1-13
HYMN: VT 419 – Great is thy Faithfulness
Children’s Time – Brad
Membership
Sharing of Faith Story: Ted Steenburgh and Audrey Wichert
TUMC Membership Covenant welcoming Ted Steenburgh
HYMN of Response: Obey My Voice
Obey my voice, and I will be your God,
and you shall be my people,
and walk in all the ways I have commanded you,
that it may be well with you and I will be your God.
Obey my voice, and I will be your God,
and you shall be my people.
Sermon
Hymn: (Remain Seated) VT 482 – Let Us Break Bread Together
Communion
Instrumental Accompaniment:
Hymn: VT 390 – In Christ there is no East or West
Benediction
Scripture Readings
Philippians 2:1-13
Imitate Christ
2 Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort in love, any sharing in the Spirit, any sympathy, 2 complete my joy by thinking the same way, having the same love, being united, and agreeing with each other. 3 Don’t do anything for selfish purposes, but with humility think of others as better than yourselves. 4 Instead of each person watching out for their own good, watch out for what is better for others. 5 Adopt the attitude that was in Christ Jesus:
6 Though he was in the form of God,
he did not consider being equal with God something to exploit.
7 But he emptied himself
by taking the form of a slave
and by becoming like human beings.
When he found himself in the form of a human,
8 he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death,
even death on a cross.
9 Therefore, God highly honored him
and gave him a name above all names,
10 so that at the name of Jesus everyone
in heaven, on earth, and under the earth might bow
11 and every tongue confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Carry out your salvation
12 Therefore, my loved ones, just as you always obey me, not just when I am present but now even more while I am away, carry out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 God is the one who enables you both to want and to actually live out his good purposes.
Matthew 21:23-32
Jesus’ authority questioned
23 When Jesus entered the temple, the chief priests and elders of the people came to him as he was teaching. They asked, “What kind of authority do you have for doing these things? Who gave you this authority?”
24 Jesus replied, “I have a question for you. If you tell me the answer, I’ll tell you what kind of authority I have to do these things. 25 Where did John get his authority to baptize? Did he get it from heaven or from humans?”
They argued among themselves, “If we say ‘from heaven,’ he’ll say to us, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’ 26 But we can’t say ‘from humans’ because we’re afraid of the crowd, since everyone thinks John was a prophet.” 27 Then they replied, “We don’t know.”
Jesus also said to them, “Neither will I tell you what kind of authority I have to do these things.
Parable of two sons
28 “What do you think? A man had two sons. Now he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’
29 “‘No, I don’t want to,’ he replied. But later he changed his mind and went.
30 “The father said the same thing to the other son, who replied, ‘Yes, sir.’ But he didn’t go.
31 “Which one of these two did his father’s will?”
They said, “The first one.”
Jesus said to them, “I assure you that tax collectors and prostitutes are entering God’s kingdom ahead of you. 32 For John came to you on the righteous road, and you didn’t believe him. But tax collectors and prostitutes believed him. Yet even after you saw this, you didn’t change your hearts and lives and you didn’t believe him.
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