From Advent through Pentecost Sunday, we are walking with Jesus, learning and growing and inviting alongside him, observing and listening as he makes his earthly journey. Then on Pentecost, the church takes the stage and seeks to live out all that has been learned as we show to the world what living in the kingdom looks like. We don’t walk alone, however, which is why the first series of this long season is about the God we proclaim. It is by the grace of God that we can be the church we are called to be.

Abbreviations:

UMH - The United Methodist Hymnal
TFWS - The Faith We Sing
W&S - Worship and Song

Trinity Sunday, Year B

Isaiah 6:1-8

To become familiar with and open to God’s all-consuming presence is a lifelong discipleship journey. Knowing and serving God are two sides of the same experience. Some start with the knowing, after some profound experience of God’s presence; they then move into a state of willingness to serve, to be sent. Others start with serving and then discover the God they are serving in the act itself, seeing God through those with whom they minister. Either way, it can be a humbling and energizing experience.