This is part of the worship series,
"Rooted and Established in Love”
Introduction
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4—World Communion Sunday
Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8—All Saints /Reformation Sunday
Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12—Christ the King Sunday
Week Eleven: The Abiding Tree
Scripture: John 15
Faith Practice: Rootedness
[In the original series, this service fell on American Thanksgiving Day and the elements of the service followed standard Thanksgiving Day practices. Below are links to other RW resources that may prove useful in planning this service.]
Services/Series that Share Thematic Similarities with this one:
Thanksgiving Services
Quote for the Bulletin or Projection
“Now how does a branch bear fruit? Not by incessant effort for sunshine and air; not by vain struggles for those vivifying influences which give beauty to the blossom, and verdure to the leaf;—it simply abides in the vine, in silent and undisturbed union; and the fruit and blossoms appear as of spontaneous growth.
“How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on action, on temptation, and on dangers? No, there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to him; a constant looking to him for grace.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe, introduction to Religion As It Should Be, or, The Remarkable Experience and Triumphant Death of Ann Thane Peck, by Christopher C. Dean, 2nd ed. (Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1851), xi.
