GREEN MEADOW
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
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BELIEVE IN THE LOVE AND SPIRIT OF THE CHURCH
AN INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY FOR ALL WHO
9th Sunday After Pentecost
July 25, 2021
10th Sunday After Pentecost
August 1, 2021
2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a | Psalm 51:1-12
Ephesians 4:1-16 | John 6:24-35
We continue in our series
looking at the Letter to the Ephesians
"Geared Up For Life."
Our message this week will focus on the fact that we are "Rooted & Grounded in Love." We conclude the first section with what has come to be called the prayer for the church. It isn’t a prayer necessarily, as it is not addressed to God, but to the hearers in the church. “I pray that you may be strengthened,” writes the author of the letter. “You” being the church, or us. Paul is praying that we might come to understand something of what is going on here. He prays that we might know the love of Christ that is beyond knowledge! So how do you know the unknowable?
Come join us...
We continue in our series
looking at the Letter to the Ephesians
"Geared Up For Life."
Our message this week will focus on
"A Life Worthy."
There are choices to be made in how we live out our faith. And some of those choices reveal whether we are indeed “rooted and grounded in love” or not.
A read through the text for this week shows us that a primary sign of the gospel-worthy life is unity. This isn’t so much an individual checklist of dos and don’ts, but a plumbline by which we measure the health of the whole body. We retain our individuality, of course, as a variety of gifts are needed. But it is the unity of the body that reveals the gospel at work in and among us. “See how those Christians love one another.”
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YOU ARE WELCOME HERE ...
Whether you label yourself a "Christian," or are uncertain whether you believe in anything anymore, you are welcome to worship at Green Meadow United Methodist Church. Single, married, partnered, divorced, gay, rich, poor, USAmerican, or immigrant, you are welcome here. Burned out on religion -- whether organized or disorganized -- bedraggled and hungover, addicted or in recovery, just out of jail,
you are welcome here. Have no idea about Holy Communion, hymnals, or when to stand or sit? Don't worry, we all have to begin somewhere. The most important thing is to begin.
We're glad you're here!
ABOUT OUR CHURCH
We are a United Methodist Community of Worship, serving in the Smoky Mountain District of the Holston Conference. Our mission is to be an open gathering place to nurture Christians in training who, equipped by the Holy Spirit, go into the world and share the light of Jesus Christ.
A MISSIONAL CHURCH
Whether it's building mission kits for flood victims, sending food buckets to Zimbabwe, working with Family Promise of Blount County, helping the Salvation Army's lunch ministry, or gathering peanut butter for the Community Food Connection, "Meadow Folk" are engaged in the missio Dei ... God's mission of love.
SUNDAY ACTIVITIES
Sunday mornings at Green Meadow are, in a way, much of what you would expect when you come to a United Methodist Church: we gather for Sunday School and we worship together. We also share a breakfast once a month, and in months where we have a fifth Sunday, we have a potluck dinner.