Worship Leader: Leanne Buck
Speaker: Tim Schmucker
Song Leader: Tim Neufeldt
Pianist: Sandra Horst
Ushers: Herb Buckwalter, Kathleen Blenich
Tech Team (In-Person / Online): Jason Booy/ Ben Thiessen
Coffee: Elizabeth and Dennis Giesbrecht
Activity Period: Jana and Brad Lepp
Gathering Hymns:
VT 387 We are one in the spirit (They will know we are Christians by our love)
VT 732 Open my eyes; Abre mis ojos
Call to Worship
Announcements
VT 831 Blest be the tie that binds
Congregational Prayer
Children’s Story
Scripture: Gospel of John 15:1–8
Scripture: First Epistle of John 4:7–16
Sermon
Benediction
VT 58 Holy spirit come to us (Taize)
Scripture
John 15:1–8
‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.
First John 4:7–16
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Saviour of the world. God abides in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they abide in God. So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.