VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE OCTOBER 13, 2024

We begin our service with song. Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. She invites us to worship and Dale Reynolds provides an opening reading from Psalm 15 and Micah 6:8. Pastor Gail then opens us in prayer. Nick Baltazar and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing. Greg Hart takes up the praises and concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.

 

In his sermon, “Closing the Gap,” Andrew Mumm continues our study of the book of James by reminding us that to love your neighbor as ourselves we must put aside the differences we see in society. Merely saying pious words and having righteous thoughts are not enough. We must act to meet the needs of others. As we work on being doers of the Word and not just hearers, we will become more aware of God’s direction on what we need to do. Instead of just lifting up our prayers for others, we can become part of the answers to those prayers. If we do not take action, then our faith will die. Our task is to close the gap between what we believe and what we do.

 

Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.

 

Prayers of the People have been edited to respect the privacy and confidentiality of those participating or mentioned. All CCLI songs are performed under Verdugo Community Church’s CCLI license # 2486815.

 

Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.

 

Worship service copyright 2024 by Verdugo Community Church. Sermon copyright 2024 by Andrew Mumm and Verdugo Community Church.