Laity Sunday 2010

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Laity Sunday

Laity Sunday October 16, 2011:

Disciples Transforming the World -- Through Gifts

LAITY SUNDAY

From the beginning, God entered into covenant with the human family;

with Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, and Sarah,

Moses, Deborah, Ruth, and Jeremiah.

Through baptism, Jesus Christ calls us into the covenant

and makes us ministers of Christ’s righteousness.

All Christian ministry is Christ’s work of outreaching love.

It demonstrates a common life of gratitude and devotion,

witness and service, celebration and discipleship.

All Christians are called to Christ’s servanthood in the world,

to the glory of God and for human fulfillment.

The Church, as the community of the new covenant,

participates in Christ’s ministry of grace.

It stretches out to human needs

wherever service may convey God’s love and ours.

In our ministry of servanthood is this ultimate concern:

that all may be renewed in the image of their Creator,

and that all Christians are called to minister

in deeds and words that heal and free. Amen.¹

.¹ 432 The United Methodist Book of Worship

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Today -

“Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can,

In all the places you can, At all the times you can,

To all the people you can, As long as ever you can."

John Wesley

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