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

A Community of Believers. Each Member A Minister.Sunday morning worship service broadcasts:

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Looking Ahead

Mary Carol AndersonYouth and Recreation

Bootie CothranMedia and Technology

Jim DantSenior Minister

Vivian HamiltonMusic and Worship

Priscilla HarrisChildren’s Music

Amy JoyeYouth Music

Shelton Ridge LoveOrganist

Jenna ManningChurch Operations

Dewanda MartinFirst Baptist Day School

Kyle MatthewsPastoral Care

Juli MorrowPreschool

Rosemary NewFirst Baptist Day School

Kendra PlatingPastoral Care

Becky RamseyChildren

Will RaybonAssociate Youth

Dylan RiggPastoral Resident

Matt RollinsSpiritual Formation and

Outreach

Frank A. SmithNeighborhood Partnership and Christian Fellowship

Kathy StewartFirst Baptist Day School

Laura StoutMissions

Mittie TaylorAYMC Director

August 30-September 3AYMC Closed for Floor Refinishing

and Observance of Labor Day

September 1-3Youth Fall Retreat at Rockmont

September 3Church Offices Closed in

Observance of Labor Day

September 5Wednesdays at First ResumeMidWeek Fellowship: Fruits of the

Spirit – The Barren TreeSeptember 7, 6:00pm

Senior Adult Banquet (Fellowship Hall)

September 7, 6:00-8:00pmChildren’s Ministries Event:

Movie and Pizza Night (AYMC Terrace Level)

September 9, 9:00amNew Member Orientation (F-307)

September 9, 9:30amProtecting Our Children (E-317)

September 9, 10:30amSenior Adult SundayCommunionDylan Rigg, Proclaimer

September 9, 4:00pmVocare Rehearsals Resume

(Choir Room)

September 9, 5:00-7:00pmSunday Night Live for Youth

Resumes (AYMC Terrace Level)

September 12Wednesdays at FirstMidWeek Fellowship: Fruits of the

Spirit – Love

September 13, 9:00am-4:00pmDay Retreat for Women:

Welcoming All of Ourselves in the Second Half of Life (AYMC)

September 13, NoonCanterbury Counseling Center’s

3rd Annual Illumination Luncheon (Christ Church Episcopal Parish House)

September 16, 10:30amJim Dant, ProclaimerSouth Carolina Governor’s School

for the Arts and Humanities Wind Ensemble

September 16, 11:30amState of the Church Stewardship

Lunch (Fellowship Hall)

William Austin and Molly Gilbert are the acolytes today.

Judy Snyder is the guest organist today. Judy serves on the Personnel and Ministry Education and Formation Committees. She and her husband, John, sing in the Sanctuary Choir. They have three children and five grandchildren.

Conducting the introit today is Bergsvein Toverud, Herring Church Music Intern. Bergsvein is beginning his senior year at Furman University.

Matthew Christopher is the soloist today. Matthew, a Herring Choral Scholar, is a senior at Furman University.

The flowers in the Sanctuary are given in memory of Carl and Sara Chalmers on what would have been their 71st wedding anniversary by Beth Chalmers Spurr.

Music selections today include: Little Prelude and Fugue in E minor by J.S. Bach; Two Shaker Hymns by Burton Bumgarner, © 2002 Hinshaw Music Inc.; “Gracious Spirit, Dwell with Me” arranged by K. Lee Scott, © 1984 Augsburg Publishing House; “May the Grace of Christ Our Savior” by Robert Powell, © 1966 Harold Flammer, Inc.; and Allegro from Concerto in B minor by Johann Gottfried Walther.

This Sanctuary is equipped with Hearing Loop. If you have a hearing aid equipped with a T-coil and switch to it, you will hear audio directly from our sound system.

September 2, 2018

Ten Thirty O’clock

Financial Needs as of 8/25$1,700,000

Receipts as of 8/29$1,591,715

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

Words of Welcome

Prelude Little Prelude and Fugue in E minor J.S. Bach

Call to Worship Kendra Plating

I am sending a messenger, says the Lord,

To prepare the way before me.

Even now, a voice is crying out:

Prepare the way of the Lord!

Call to Worship “Come to Zion” arr. Burton Bumgarner Traditional Shaker Tune

Come to Zion, come to Zion, sinsick souls in sorrow bound.Lay your cares upon the altar where true healing may be found.

Shout halleluia! Halleluia! Praise resounds o’er land and sea.All who will may come and share the glories of this Jubilee!

– Traditional Shaker Text

Prayer for Worship

Holy God, through your prophets, you sent your word into the wilderness, crying out: Repent, seek forgiveness and prepare the way of the Lord! Now prepare the way in us and in our world that all flesh may know your saving grace through Jesus Christ. Amen.

*Processional Hymn 178 CRUSADERS’ HYMN “Fairest Lord Jesus”

Welcome to Worshipers

Solo “The Call” Ralph Vaughan Williams (from Five Mystical Songs)

Words of Faith

Scripture Lesson Malachi 3:1-7 Matt Rollins

page 778 of the Bible in the pew rack

Words of Commitment

*Invitation Hymn 142 MADRID “Come, Christians, Join to Sing”

*Invitation to Offering

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has looked favorably on his people and redeemed them. (Luke 1:68)

Musical Offering Robert Powell “May the Grace of Christ Our Savior”

Introduction of New Members

Service and Fellowship of the Church

Words of Blessing

*Doxology (Hymn 32) LASST UNS ERFREUEN

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!

*Benediction

*Choral Benediction Response Burton Bumgarner “On the Works of Our Hands”

On the work of our hands and the praise of our hearts,May the light of Thy countenance shine,

In the least ever faithful, abiding and true,Our service of joy shall be Thine.

May the halo of prayer, may the mantle of peaceAs heaven’s benediction descend,

Ordaining our lives for the mission of Christ,And love with our sacrifice blend.

– The Canterbury Shakers

Postlude Allegro Johann Gottfried Walther (from Concerto in B minor)

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

Pastoral Prayer

*Children’s Hymn 165 FAITHFULNESS “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”

All children through 5th grade are invited to the front for the children’s sermon

during the singing of the last two stanzas of the hymn.

Children’s Sermon Becky Ramsey

Choral Worship “Gracious Spirit, Dwell with Me” arr. K. Lee Scott

Gracious Spirit, dwell with me. I would gracious be;Help me now thy grace to see. I would be like Thee;

And with words that help and heal, thy life would mine reveal;And with actions bold and meek, for Christ, my Savior, speak.

Truthful Spirit, dwell with me, I would truthful be;Help me now thy truth to see. I would be like thee;

And with wisdom kind and clear, thy life in mine appear;And with actions born of thee, speak Christ’s sincerity.

Holy Spirit, dwell with me. I would holy be;Show thy mercy tenderly, make me more like thee;

Separate from sin, I would and cherish all things good,And whatever I can be give him who gave me thee.

Mighty Spirit, dwell with me, I would mighty be;Help me now thy power to see, I would be like thee;

’Gainst all weapons hell can wield, be thou my strength and shield;Let thy word my weapon be, Lord, thine the victory.

Gracious Spirit, dwell with me, I would be like thee! - St. 1-3 Thomas T. Lynch

Sermon I Have a Few Questions Jim Dant

Call to Prayer “O Lord, Hear My Prayer” Jacques Berthier