"It's Not First UMC Without U" Sermon Series

Ambassadors

September 1, 2024 • Dr. Harold Henderson • 1 Corinthians 13

This summer is coming to close and a new season of ministry stretches out before our faith family. God calls and equips every individual to make a positive difference as we work together as the body of Christ on our campus, in our community and around our world. How are U helping First UMC be the best WE can be? Not for our glory, but for God’s! Verse 13 of 1 Corinthians 13 says “And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.” We are assembled, activated and arranged by God and the Holy Spirit in order to be Christ’s ambassadors of love, under our roof and beyond our walls.

Arranged

August 25, 2024 • Pastor Beth Snarr • 1 Corinthians 12:12–31

This summer is coming to close and a new season of ministry stretches out before our faith family. God calls and equips every individual to make a positive difference as we work together as the body of Christ on our campus, in our community and around our world. How are U helping First UMC be the best WE can be? Not for our glory, but for God’s! Verse 18 of 1 Corinthians 12 says “But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.” Each of our individual gifts are needed and arranged in ways that make up the working body of Christ, under our roof and beyond our walls.

Activated

August 18, 2024 • Pastor Beth Snarr • 1 Corinthians 12:4–11

This summer is coming to close and a new season of ministry stretches out before our faith family. God calls and equips every individual to make a positive difference as we work together as the body of Christ on our campus, in our community and around our world. How are U helping First UMC be the best WE can be? Not for our glory, but for God’s! Verse 11 of 1 Corinthians 12 says “All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.” Each one of us has gifts that are both given and activated by the Holy Spirit to do the work of Christ, under our roof and beyond our walls.

Assembled

August 11, 2024 • Pastor Beth Snarr • 1 Corinthians 1:1–9

This summer is coming to close and a new season of ministry stretches out before our faith family. God calls and equips every individual to make a positive difference as we work together as the body of Christ on our campus, in our community and around our world. How are U helping First UMC be the best WE can be? Not for our glory, but for God’s! Verse 9 of 1 Corinthians 1 says “God is faithful; by him you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” We have been brought together in this time and place to grow in our understanding and practice of what it means to be a faithful follower of Jesus Christ, under our roof and beyond our walls.

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How are U helping First UMC be the best WE can be? Not for our glory, but for God’s!