A Scripture, Song and Prayer Service If you’re visiting with us this morning, thank you for coming today and please come back soon!

Please take the next few moments to prepare your minds and your hearts to worship God in spirit and in truth. The Scriptures and songs chosen for this morning’s service are to help us learn more about God’s love for us. Please follow along in this service (refer to the inside of your bulletin) and be a part!

Scripture: 1 Corinthian 13:1-13 Reader: Song: #233: “The Greatest Of All Is Love” Leader: Prayer Leader: The Greatest of These Is Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

1 Corinthians 13:8-10 “Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.”

1 Corinthians 13:11-12 “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.”

1 Corinthians 13:13

Song: #233: “The Greatest Of All Is Love” Leader: Prayer Leader: The greatest of These is Love

Love Comes From God Scripture: 1 John 4:7-16 Reader: Song: #412: “God Is Love” Leader:

1 John 4:7-9 “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.”

1 John 4:10-13 “ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.”

1 John 4:14-16 “ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. ”

Love Comes from god Song: #412: “God Is Love” Leader:

The Love of God Gave Us a great Savior Scripture: Romans 5:1-11 Reader: Song: #31: “What A Savior” Leader:

Romans 5:1-4 “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope.”

Romans 5:5-8 “Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. 6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Romans 5:9-11 “Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.”

Song: #31: “What A Savior” Leader: The Love of God Gave Us A great Savior

Love For Christ Is Taught In The Home Scripture: Ephesians 5:22-33 Reader: Song: #308: “Where Love Is In The Home” Leader:

Ephesians 5:22-25 “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her”

Ephesians 5:26-29 “ that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. ”

Ephesians 5:30-33 “For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 31 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”

Love For Christ Is Taught In The Home Song: #308: “Where Love Is In The Home” Leader:

Our Love For God Is Manifested In love For Our Brethren Scripture: 1 John 3:10-23 Reader: Song: #180: “Wonderful Story Of Love” Leader:

1 John 3:10-12 “ In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. 11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, 12 not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous. ”

1 John 3:13-15 “ Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. ”

1 John 3:16-19

1 John 3:20-23

Song: #180: “Wonderful Story Of Love” Leader: Our Love For God Is Manifested In love For Our Brethren

The Love of God Is Jesus Christ Our Lord Scripture: Romans 8:31-39 Reader: Song: #608: “The Love Of God” Leader:

Romans 8:31-34 “ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. ”

Romans 8:35-37 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: ‘For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’ 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”

Romans 8:38-39 “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

The Love of God Is Jesus Christ Our Lord Song: #608: “The Love Of God” Leader:

Invitation: Be Imitators of God Scripture: Ephesians 5:1-2 Reader: Song: #696: “He Loves Me” Leader:

Ephesians 5:1-2

The Greatest Of These Is Love The Greatest Of These Is Love Love Comes From God Love Comes From God The Love of God Gave Us A Great Savior The Love of God Gave Us A Great Savior Love For Christ Is Taught In The Home Love For Christ Is Taught In The Home Our Love For God Is Manifested In Love For Our Brethren Our Love For God Is Manifested In Love For Our Brethren The Love of God Is Jesus Christ Our Lord The Love of God Is Jesus Christ Our Lord Are You Imitating God?

Invitation: Be Imitators of God Song: #696: “He Loves Me” Leader:

Lord’s Supper Speaker: Song Before Lord’s Supper: #164: “The Depths of God’s Love” Leader: #164: “The Depths of God’s Love” Leader: Lord’s Supper Attendants: Closing Prayer: Leader:

Song Before Lord’s Supper: #164: “The Depth of God’s Love” Leader: #164: “The Depth of God’s Love” Leader: Lord’s Supper Attendants: Closing Prayer: Leader: