March 20, 2025 • 18 mins
Luke 4:1-13
The temptation in Luke involves the Devil trying to mislead Jesus into different (ultimately disastrous) possibilities. Jesus is prepared to keep the Devil at bay. But the passage also ends with these ominous words: “After finishing every temptation, the devil departed from him until the next opportunity.” Disaster may have been averted for now, but it is coming.
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Matt Nelson (00:04):
Welcome to the sermon podcast from First United Methodist
Church in downtown Bentonville.
If you have questions related towhat you hear today, or just want to
find out more about the ministries atFirst United Methodist Church, please
visit us online at fumcbentonville.
org or check us out onFacebook, Instagram, or TikTok.
This week's podcast begins witha clip from a short video that
(00:27):
was aired during Sunday service.
It kicks off our Lentenseries, "Mitigated Disaster."
Rev. James Kjorlaug - Pastor at FUMC Rogers, Arkansas: So the actual day itself, for the (00:46):
undefined
most part since the tornado happenedreally early in the morning, Uh,
it wasn't exactly a long day.
It was, in my experience, what a lot ofpeople's in town was, which was emergency
alerts going off on phones, uh, hadto get my kids out of their bed from
upstairs, brought them downstairs, gotthem in a safe place while we listened
(01:07):
to the wind and hail and everythingbeat against the house, trees falling
down all around the house, that kind ofthing, all the animals in the closet.
You know, that, that was kind of theimmediate experience of the storm.
We knew that there was potentialfor it, just as it got closer, it,
it turned into what it turned into.
Barry Moehring, Benton County Judge (01:25):
We'll start with the day, because it actually
happened in the middle of the night.
Um, the day before, thatSaturday, was a great day.
Uh, we were at the lake, had a greattime, had a relaxing evening, and
really didn't, um, didn't think therewas too much to be too concerned
about, uh, with one exception.
Here at the county, our public safetyadministrator, called me earlier that
(01:47):
day and said this storm that's comingin, I'm a little concerned about it.
I'm going to be paying attention to it.
And that was kind of the firstclue I had that there might
be something more significant.
But all in all, we had a reallygood day on that Saturday.
We did.
It was our first day back out on thelake, Table Rock Lake, to sort of open
up lake season and it was our weddinganniversary and we had a great time.
(02:08):
So that night, um, you know, we turnedin for the night at about normal time
and we're not really late night peopleand started getting some warnings,
you know, very, very early morningSunday, very, very late Saturday.
And, uh, we knew a storm wascoming in, didn't know exactly
how severe it was going to be.
Got up when the warning, first warningstarted coming in on, on, uh, on the
(02:30):
phone and saw that we were under a, uh,tornado watch, not yet a tornado warning.
And, uh, I got up and started payingattention like a lot of people do
to the, the folks on television.
Dan Scoff telling us aboutwhat weather was coming in.
And that's really how, um, thatnight started as we started to
go into the, the evening itself.
Rev. Dr. Michelle Morris (02:55):
That
song was what I was trying to sing whenI had thrown down the gauntlet to God.
And I remember trying to sing words.
on Jordan's Stormy Banks.
I stand when I was reallystanding on some stormy banks.
(03:16):
And, uh, ultimately, my faithcarried me through that.
Ultimately, God carried me through that.
Ultimately, God called me toministry as a result of that.
But really powerful, takingme back to that place.
Y'all.
Thank you.
So we are in this series calledMitigated Disaster, and we're going
(03:37):
to be in this for the season of Lent.
We are basically looking at how our faith,how the faith that Jesus teaches us about,
will shore us up and carry us throughwhatever life's disasters confront us.
And so today we're going totalk about, there's this looming
possibility that disaster is coming,and how do we get ready for that?
(03:57):
And so to put us in that frameof mind, we're going to hear
These words from Luke chapter 4.
Jesus returned from the Jordan River,full of the Holy Spirit, and was led
by the Spirit into the wilderness.
There he was tempted forforty days by the devil.
He ate nothing during those days,and afterward, Jesus was starving.
(04:20):
The devil said to him, Sinceyou are God's son, command this
stone to become a loaf of bread.
Jesus replied, It's written,People won't live only by bread.
Next, the devil led him to a highplace and showed him in a single
instant all the kingdoms of the world.
The devil said, I will giveyou this whole domain and the
(04:41):
glory of all these kingdoms.
It's been entrusted to me, andI can give it to anyone I want.
Therefore, if you will worshipme, it will all be yours.
Jesus answered, It's written,You will worship the Lord
your God and serve only Him.
The devil brought him intoJerusalem and stood him at the
(05:02):
highest point of the temple.
He said to him, Since you are a God'sson, throw yourself down from here.
For it's written, He will command hisangels concerning you to protect you, and
they will take you up in their hands, sothat you won't hit your foot on a stone.
Jesus answered, It's been said,Don't test the Lord your God.
(05:24):
After finishing every temptation,The devil departed from him
until the next opportunity.
This is the word of Godfor the people of God.
Thanks be to God.
Let us pray.
Lord, open our hearts,our minds, and our eyes.
that we might see and know theword you have for us this day.
(05:44):
In your holy name we pray.
Amen.
I have a fascination with the weather.
In fact, if you asked me if I wasgoing to be a scientist, my first
choice as a scientist would have beento be a paleontologist or geologist.
But my second choice would havebeen to be a meteorologist.
I absolutely love information aboutweather, and I think it must drive from
(06:08):
The fact that when I was a year and ahalf old Living in Stillwater, Oklahoma,
our town got demolished by a tornado.
I think it must have imprintedon me the power of weather and
created in me this fascination.
So, I love to read stories aboutweather events, I love to watch
documentaries about weather events,and I love a good disaster movie.
(06:32):
For instance, I love the Twister movies.
Now, the thing about the Twister moviesis they're working with a classic trope
of scientific knowledge versus gut, right?
And they're always putting the two againsteach other, like what's gonna win out the
(06:53):
scientific knowledge or the gut, right?
They have all this complicated machineryand they're trying to get all these
readings on the weather and then therewill be that one person that just stands
in a field and maybe picks up somedirt and lets it Blow in the wind and
then goes the tornado is that way thetruth of the matter is When it comes
(07:17):
to dealing with things like tornadoes agood storm warning system is made up of
both things It's made up of knowledgeConcrete knowledge and it's made up of
gut I can tell you as a child growing upin Tornado Alley Doppler radar changed
(07:38):
the game It meant many more minutes ofnotice that a tornado was coming and
much more likelihood of surviving it.
But I can also tell you as a kid who grewup in Tornado Alley that I can step out on
some days and go this is tornado weather.
It feels different.
(08:02):
Both knowledge and gut areat work here with Jesus.
He has the knowledge, having studiedthe scriptures and knowing it deeply,
it has shaped who he is, it is who heis and can be used as a defense against
all of the words that the devil has.
But he also has gut, representedhere by that supernatural
(08:26):
nudge of the Holy Spirit.
That's our gut, y'all.
The Holy Spirit directing our path.
And the Holy Spirit does that forJesus here in sending Jesus out
into the wilderness and being withJesus in the wilderness, having
him go through this temptationbecause bigger tests are coming.
(08:47):
It's sort of a training ground space.
And Jesus will need both to resistthe devil, both knowledge and gut.
And he will need both to avoid disaster.
And that's really the work of a prophet.
A prophet is called to know God'sstory, to study it deeply, to
(09:08):
be shaped by the words, to, insome ways, consume the words.
And also to know God's peopleso deeply as to know what words
that people needs to hear.
But also, a prophet has gutin the form of God's guidance.
God's urging as to what needs to be said.
(09:32):
The prophet is our faithstorm warning system.
It is a prophet who sounds the alarm.
When disaster is on the horizon.
And an importantdistinction about prophets.
Sometimes people talk aboutprophets as if they know the future.
It's not about fortune telling.
What is true about prophets is thatthey really understand God's word, God's
(09:58):
people, and the moment before them.
So that they can predict.
They take in the knowledge andgut and assess and say this is
the storm on the horizon, thisis what we need to prepare for.
As I mentioned, we're going to be in theGospel of Luke for this entire series.
(10:19):
And one of the things that's fascinatingand amazing and wonderful about our
Gospels is that each one of them takesa particular emphasis in how they
understand Jesus so that all together,all four, give us a very complete picture.
So in Mark, Jesus is reallyemphasized as the supernatural healer.
In Matthew, Jesus is the Jewish Messiah.
(10:41):
In John, Jesus is the Son of God.
And in Luke, Jesus is God's prophet.
So, as we make our way throughLuke in this series, what we are
going to see is Jesus trying toprepare us to avoid disaster.
(11:02):
Or if we have to go throughdisaster, Jesus is trying to
shore up our faith enough thatwe'll be able to make it through.
Because faith does notprotect us from the storm.
Faith does not keep disaster from coming.
What faith does is minimizethe damage in the midst.
So, we are going to center downon that prophetic warning and
(11:25):
preparation that Jesus has for us.
Now, spending all this time thinkingabout prophets this week has caused
me to think about What propheticword is needed in this moment?
All of us who are ordained are ordainedin part to the role of prophet.
And I will say that there has beenmore pressure on this pulpit in the
(11:47):
past few years than I have ever seen.
We've been through a lotin the last few years.
So much.
We're still going through a lot.
And as I think about God's Word, and as Ithink about the people that you are, and
as I think about what is really neededin this space, and as I kneel before
(12:12):
God and pray and seek God's guidance,seek that gut nudge, I know that the
prophetic word we are to proclaim inthis place is that we will love all.
We will love all.
That is what we will stand onand say over and over and over.
(12:34):
And we will say it in many ways,but that is the heart of who we
are called to be in this moment.
Because if we don't learn to love eachother, then everything gets worse.
The storm gets worse.
The disaster piles on top of itself.
Now, does this mean we never addressthings that are happening in our world?
(12:55):
No, of course we do.
What we don't do is be pushedaround by the demands of the world.
That's standing in thatplace of temptation.
Here are the pressures of the world.
That's what the devil puts before Jesus.
Here are the things of theworld that'll push on you.
(13:16):
We don't have to bepushed by those things.
We can see beyond those things.
And we can do the work that needsto be done to love our neighbor.
So we will work on shoring up ourfaith, listening to the words of Jesus.
(13:36):
And then, having done that,you can think for yourselves.
How about that?
You can use what you have learned.
from Jesus to help you address anythingthat you're confronting in your life.
And you can act out of faith, afaith that is centered on love.
(13:57):
The mission of this church is to be amission station, to equip disciples,
to go out and love those who arefar from home or far from God.
That's who we are.
That's what we'll do.
And also I want to say that as I've prayedfor God's guidance for that gut nudge
(14:19):
of what we are supposed to say in thismoment, I've also very clearly been told
your people don't just need a profit.
They also need a pastor, becauseif there's anything I'm hearing
over and over and over fromyou all, it's your exhaustion.
(14:44):
You need a place of refuge and recovery.
You need a place to rest and re center.
We will talk about big ideas andchallenging things in this place,
but hopefully at the center ofit is God's peace and God's joy.
That will let you breathe deep.
(15:06):
Breathe deep in a world that's tryingto steal your breath right now.
We need a place to hear thegood news of Jesus Christ.
And to hear it clearly.
And it's hard to hearthe good news these days.
Because there are a wholelot of sirens going off.
(15:28):
A whole lot of sirens going off.
It's hard to remember that knowledgethat we have of who God is and God's
story, and it's hard to hear ourgut with so many sirens going off.
That tornado that I was in atage one and a half years, it
took place on Friday the 13th.
(15:49):
Very ominous day for a tornado.
You'd think people had been paying moreattention, but they weren't because
For a week leading up to the day of thetornadoes, the sirens went off every day.
People quit paying attention
and more damage happened becausethe sirens quit mattering.
(16:15):
We saw in the video though, people whopaid attention to sirens, to James, who
got his children to safety, and to BarryMooring, who paid attention, and as
you'll see over the course of the weeks,he's our county judge, he helped, you
know, get all of the county response out.
They were paying attention, andgood things will come from that.
(16:40):
That's what we're gonnacenter down on, y'all.
Learning how to hear thegood news in the midst.
Let the good news be the siren.
Let the good news be the sirenthat causes us to jump into action.
Let our faith be the driving force.
(17:01):
Once we do that, we'll be ableto cut through this noise.
We will hear clearly the voice ofJesus Christ, and we'll be ready
for any disaster that comes our way.
Thanks be to God.
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(17:23):
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Welcome to the sermon podcast from First United Methodist
Church in downtown Bentonville.
If you have questions related towhat you hear today, or just want to
find out more about the ministries atFirst United Methodist Church, please
visit us online at fumcbentonville.
org or check us out onFacebook, Instagram, or TikTok.
This week's podcast begins witha clip from a short video that
(00:27):
was aired during Sunday service.
It kicks off our Lentenseries, "Mitigated Disaster."
Rev. James Kjorlaug - Pastor at FUMC Rogers, Arkansas: So the actual day itself, for the (00:46):
undefined
most part since the tornado happenedreally early in the morning, Uh,
it wasn't exactly a long day.
It was, in my experience, what a lot ofpeople's in town was, which was emergency
alerts going off on phones, uh, hadto get my kids out of their bed from
upstairs, brought them downstairs, gotthem in a safe place while we listened
(01:07):
to the wind and hail and everythingbeat against the house, trees falling
down all around the house, that kind ofthing, all the animals in the closet.
You know, that, that was kind of theimmediate experience of the storm.
We knew that there was potentialfor it, just as it got closer, it,
it turned into what it turned into.
Barry Moehring, Benton County Judge (01:25):
We'll start with the day, because it actually
happened in the middle of the night.
Um, the day before, thatSaturday, was a great day.
Uh, we were at the lake, had a greattime, had a relaxing evening, and
really didn't, um, didn't think therewas too much to be too concerned
about, uh, with one exception.
Here at the county, our public safetyadministrator, called me earlier that
(01:47):
day and said this storm that's comingin, I'm a little concerned about it.
I'm going to be paying attention to it.
And that was kind of the firstclue I had that there might
be something more significant.
But all in all, we had a reallygood day on that Saturday.
We did.
It was our first day back out on thelake, Table Rock Lake, to sort of open
up lake season and it was our weddinganniversary and we had a great time.
(02:08):
So that night, um, you know, we turnedin for the night at about normal time
and we're not really late night peopleand started getting some warnings,
you know, very, very early morningSunday, very, very late Saturday.
And, uh, we knew a storm wascoming in, didn't know exactly
how severe it was going to be.
Got up when the warning, first warningstarted coming in on, on, uh, on the
(02:30):
phone and saw that we were under a, uh,tornado watch, not yet a tornado warning.
And, uh, I got up and started payingattention like a lot of people do
to the, the folks on television.
Dan Scoff telling us aboutwhat weather was coming in.
And that's really how, um, thatnight started as we started to
go into the, the evening itself.
Rev. Dr. Michelle Morris (02:55):
That
song was what I was trying to sing whenI had thrown down the gauntlet to God.
And I remember trying to sing words.
on Jordan's Stormy Banks.
I stand when I was reallystanding on some stormy banks.
(03:16):
And, uh, ultimately, my faithcarried me through that.
Ultimately, God carried me through that.
Ultimately, God called me toministry as a result of that.
But really powerful, takingme back to that place.
Y'all.
Thank you.
So we are in this series calledMitigated Disaster, and we're going
(03:37):
to be in this for the season of Lent.
We are basically looking at how our faith,how the faith that Jesus teaches us about,
will shore us up and carry us throughwhatever life's disasters confront us.
And so today we're going totalk about, there's this looming
possibility that disaster is coming,and how do we get ready for that?
(03:57):
And so to put us in that frameof mind, we're going to hear
These words from Luke chapter 4.
Jesus returned from the Jordan River,full of the Holy Spirit, and was led
by the Spirit into the wilderness.
There he was tempted forforty days by the devil.
He ate nothing during those days,and afterward, Jesus was starving.
(04:20):
The devil said to him, Sinceyou are God's son, command this
stone to become a loaf of bread.
Jesus replied, It's written,People won't live only by bread.
Next, the devil led him to a highplace and showed him in a single
instant all the kingdoms of the world.
The devil said, I will giveyou this whole domain and the
(04:41):
glory of all these kingdoms.
It's been entrusted to me, andI can give it to anyone I want.
Therefore, if you will worshipme, it will all be yours.
Jesus answered, It's written,You will worship the Lord
your God and serve only Him.
The devil brought him intoJerusalem and stood him at the
(05:02):
highest point of the temple.
He said to him, Since you are a God'sson, throw yourself down from here.
For it's written, He will command hisangels concerning you to protect you, and
they will take you up in their hands, sothat you won't hit your foot on a stone.
Jesus answered, It's been said,Don't test the Lord your God.
(05:24):
After finishing every temptation,The devil departed from him
until the next opportunity.
This is the word of Godfor the people of God.
Thanks be to God.
Let us pray.
Lord, open our hearts,our minds, and our eyes.
that we might see and know theword you have for us this day.
(05:44):
In your holy name we pray.
Amen.
I have a fascination with the weather.
In fact, if you asked me if I wasgoing to be a scientist, my first
choice as a scientist would have beento be a paleontologist or geologist.
But my second choice would havebeen to be a meteorologist.
I absolutely love information aboutweather, and I think it must drive from
(06:08):
The fact that when I was a year and ahalf old Living in Stillwater, Oklahoma,
our town got demolished by a tornado.
I think it must have imprintedon me the power of weather and
created in me this fascination.
So, I love to read stories aboutweather events, I love to watch
documentaries about weather events,and I love a good disaster movie.
(06:32):
For instance, I love the Twister movies.
Now, the thing about the Twister moviesis they're working with a classic trope
of scientific knowledge versus gut, right?
And they're always putting the two againsteach other, like what's gonna win out the
(06:53):
scientific knowledge or the gut, right?
They have all this complicated machineryand they're trying to get all these
readings on the weather and then therewill be that one person that just stands
in a field and maybe picks up somedirt and lets it Blow in the wind and
then goes the tornado is that way thetruth of the matter is When it comes
(07:17):
to dealing with things like tornadoes agood storm warning system is made up of
both things It's made up of knowledgeConcrete knowledge and it's made up of
gut I can tell you as a child growing upin Tornado Alley Doppler radar changed
(07:38):
the game It meant many more minutes ofnotice that a tornado was coming and
much more likelihood of surviving it.
But I can also tell you as a kid who grewup in Tornado Alley that I can step out on
some days and go this is tornado weather.
It feels different.
(08:02):
Both knowledge and gut areat work here with Jesus.
He has the knowledge, having studiedthe scriptures and knowing it deeply,
it has shaped who he is, it is who heis and can be used as a defense against
all of the words that the devil has.
But he also has gut, representedhere by that supernatural
(08:26):
nudge of the Holy Spirit.
That's our gut, y'all.
The Holy Spirit directing our path.
And the Holy Spirit does that forJesus here in sending Jesus out
into the wilderness and being withJesus in the wilderness, having
him go through this temptationbecause bigger tests are coming.
(08:47):
It's sort of a training ground space.
And Jesus will need both to resistthe devil, both knowledge and gut.
And he will need both to avoid disaster.
And that's really the work of a prophet.
A prophet is called to know God'sstory, to study it deeply, to
(09:08):
be shaped by the words, to, insome ways, consume the words.
And also to know God's peopleso deeply as to know what words
that people needs to hear.
But also, a prophet has gutin the form of God's guidance.
God's urging as to what needs to be said.
(09:32):
The prophet is our faithstorm warning system.
It is a prophet who sounds the alarm.
When disaster is on the horizon.
And an importantdistinction about prophets.
Sometimes people talk aboutprophets as if they know the future.
It's not about fortune telling.
What is true about prophets is thatthey really understand God's word, God's
(09:58):
people, and the moment before them.
So that they can predict.
They take in the knowledge andgut and assess and say this is
the storm on the horizon, thisis what we need to prepare for.
As I mentioned, we're going to be in theGospel of Luke for this entire series.
(10:19):
And one of the things that's fascinatingand amazing and wonderful about our
Gospels is that each one of them takesa particular emphasis in how they
understand Jesus so that all together,all four, give us a very complete picture.
So in Mark, Jesus is reallyemphasized as the supernatural healer.
In Matthew, Jesus is the Jewish Messiah.
(10:41):
In John, Jesus is the Son of God.
And in Luke, Jesus is God's prophet.
So, as we make our way throughLuke in this series, what we are
going to see is Jesus trying toprepare us to avoid disaster.
(11:02):
Or if we have to go throughdisaster, Jesus is trying to
shore up our faith enough thatwe'll be able to make it through.
Because faith does notprotect us from the storm.
Faith does not keep disaster from coming.
What faith does is minimizethe damage in the midst.
So, we are going to center downon that prophetic warning and
(11:25):
preparation that Jesus has for us.
Now, spending all this time thinkingabout prophets this week has caused
me to think about What propheticword is needed in this moment?
All of us who are ordained are ordainedin part to the role of prophet.
And I will say that there has beenmore pressure on this pulpit in the
(11:47):
past few years than I have ever seen.
We've been through a lotin the last few years.
So much.
We're still going through a lot.
And as I think about God's Word, and as Ithink about the people that you are, and
as I think about what is really neededin this space, and as I kneel before
(12:12):
God and pray and seek God's guidance,seek that gut nudge, I know that the
prophetic word we are to proclaim inthis place is that we will love all.
We will love all.
That is what we will stand onand say over and over and over.
(12:34):
And we will say it in many ways,but that is the heart of who we
are called to be in this moment.
Because if we don't learn to love eachother, then everything gets worse.
The storm gets worse.
The disaster piles on top of itself.
Now, does this mean we never addressthings that are happening in our world?
(12:55):
No, of course we do.
What we don't do is be pushedaround by the demands of the world.
That's standing in thatplace of temptation.
Here are the pressures of the world.
That's what the devil puts before Jesus.
Here are the things of theworld that'll push on you.
(13:16):
We don't have to bepushed by those things.
We can see beyond those things.
And we can do the work that needsto be done to love our neighbor.
So we will work on shoring up ourfaith, listening to the words of Jesus.
(13:36):
And then, having done that,you can think for yourselves.
How about that?
You can use what you have learned.
from Jesus to help you address anythingthat you're confronting in your life.
And you can act out of faith, afaith that is centered on love.
(13:57):
The mission of this church is to be amission station, to equip disciples,
to go out and love those who arefar from home or far from God.
That's who we are.
That's what we'll do.
And also I want to say that as I've prayedfor God's guidance for that gut nudge
(14:19):
of what we are supposed to say in thismoment, I've also very clearly been told
your people don't just need a profit.
They also need a pastor, becauseif there's anything I'm hearing
over and over and over fromyou all, it's your exhaustion.
(14:44):
You need a place of refuge and recovery.
You need a place to rest and re center.
We will talk about big ideas andchallenging things in this place,
but hopefully at the center ofit is God's peace and God's joy.
That will let you breathe deep.
(15:06):
Breathe deep in a world that's tryingto steal your breath right now.
We need a place to hear thegood news of Jesus Christ.
And to hear it clearly.
And it's hard to hearthe good news these days.
Because there are a wholelot of sirens going off.
(15:28):
A whole lot of sirens going off.
It's hard to remember that knowledgethat we have of who God is and God's
story, and it's hard to hear ourgut with so many sirens going off.
That tornado that I was in atage one and a half years, it
took place on Friday the 13th.
(15:49):
Very ominous day for a tornado.
You'd think people had been paying moreattention, but they weren't because
For a week leading up to the day of thetornadoes, the sirens went off every day.
People quit paying attention
and more damage happened becausethe sirens quit mattering.
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We saw in the video though, people whopaid attention to sirens, to James, who
got his children to safety, and to BarryMooring, who paid attention, and as
you'll see over the course of the weeks,he's our county judge, he helped, you
know, get all of the county response out.
They were paying attention, andgood things will come from that.
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That's what we're gonnacenter down on, y'all.
Learning how to hear thegood news in the midst.
Let the good news be the siren.
Let the good news be the sirenthat causes us to jump into action.
Let our faith be the driving force.
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Once we do that, we'll be ableto cut through this noise.
We will hear clearly the voice ofJesus Christ, and we'll be ready
for any disaster that comes our way.
Thanks be to God.
Thanks for listening to the SermonPodcast from First United Methodist
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Church in downtown Bentonville.
If you would like to let us know you werehere, follow the link below to connect.
To participate in worship through giving,you can give online at FUMCbentonville.org
or on Venmo @ FUMCbentonvIlle.
FUMC Bentonville welcomes all.
Because we believe the communiontable is God's table, we invite
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everyone into our church family.
We welcome and celebrate every race,gender, gender identity, sexual
orientation, marital status, age, physicaland mental ability, national origin,
economic station, and political ideology.
We come together in action and outreach,aspiring to follow Jesus' example for
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radical hospitality, love, and grace as atransformative movement in our community.
Please join us for worship on Sundaymornings at 9 and 11 a.m., both
in person and on Facebook Live.
All are welcome and we'dlove to have you with us.
Grace and peace.
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