Ellendale United Methodist Church

Ellendale United Methodist Church ELLENDALE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Ellendale United Methodist Church offers two worship opportunities each Sunday.
8:45am - Sunday School
9:00am - Fellowship
10:00am - In-person and Facebook Live Worship

09/09/2026

🌎 Who has shown you patience, kindness, hope, and enduring love?

Now imagine giving that same love to others—not only friends and family, but strangers, neighbors, and even enemies.

That’s where the challenge of Christian love gets real. ❤️✝️

🌎 WHO IS YOUR NEIGHBOR?It’s easy to love people who think like us, agree with us, encourage us, and make life easier.But...
09/09/2026

🌎 WHO IS YOUR NEIGHBOR?

It’s easy to love people who think like us, agree with us, encourage us, and make life easier.

But Christ calls us to something greater.

“Love your neighbor as yourself.” ❤️

Your neighbor may be someone in your family, someone across the street, someone at work—or someone whose opinions and experiences are completely different from yours.

The command remains the same: love.

Not because everyone has earned it. Not because loving people is always easy. But because God’s love toward us becomes the model for the love we extend to others. ✝️

Imagine what could happen in our homes, churches, workplaces, and communities if followers of Jesus became known by the way we loved people.

Look around today.

Your next opportunity to live out your faith may be standing right in front of you. 🤝

09/08/2026

đź«¶ What does love actually look like?

Patient. Kind. Humble. Not self-seeking. Not resentful. Enduring.

Biblical love is more than a feeling—it changes how we treat the people God places in front of us. ❤️

Who needs this kind of love from you today?

🫶 LOVE CHANGES HOW WE LIVERomans 13:10 gives us a beautifully simple standard:“Love does no harm to a neighbor.”Think ab...
09/08/2026

đź«¶ LOVE CHANGES HOW WE LIVE

Romans 13:10 gives us a beautifully simple standard:

“Love does no harm to a neighbor.”

Think about what happens when that truth becomes the filter for our choices.

Before we speak: Is this loving?
Before we react: Will this help or harm?
Before we judge: Am I seeing this person through the eyes of Christ?

Biblical love isn’t passive. It changes our words, our attitudes, our priorities, and the way we respond to people—especially when loving them isn’t easy.

❤️ Love chooses compassion over cruelty.
🙏 Love chooses forgiveness over revenge.
🤝 Love seeks another person’s good.
✝️ Love points people toward Jesus.

We cannot control how everyone treats us. But through Christ, we can choose how we treat them.

Today, let love influence your next conversation, your next decision, and your next response.

Because when love changes our hearts, it begins changing how we live.

09/07/2026

❤️ What if love isn’t just something we feel—but something we owe?

Romans 13 challenges us to see love as an obligation that doesn’t depend on whether someone is likable, deserving, or even loves us back.

The question isn’t simply who they are. The question is: Who are we called to be? ✝️

❤️ OWE THEM LOVEWhat if there’s one debt we’re never supposed to finish paying?Romans 13:8 tells us, “Let no debt remain...
09/07/2026

❤️ OWE THEM LOVE

What if there’s one debt we’re never supposed to finish paying?

Romans 13:8 tells us, “Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another.”

That changes the way we think about love. Biblical love isn’t simply an emotion we feel when circumstances are right or people are easy to love. It’s a continuing obligation—a way of life that reflects the heart of God.

❤️ Love the person who encourages you.
❤️ Love the person who frustrates you.
❤️ Love when it’s convenient.
❤️ Love when it costs you something.

Why? Because love does something remarkable: love fulfills the law.

When we genuinely love our neighbor, we don’t seek to harm them. We begin thinking about their needs, their struggles, their dignity, and their good.

Jesus didn’t merely teach us about this kind of love. He showed us what it looks like.

So perhaps the question isn’t simply, “Do I love people?”

A better question might be: “Can people see the love of Christ through the way I treat them?”

There will never be a day when we can say, “I’ve loved enough. My debt is paid.”

The debt of love continues. ❤️

And that means every conversation, every relationship, every act of patience, forgiveness, generosity, and compassion gives us another opportunity to live the Gospel.

📖 Read Romans 13:8–10 today and ask God to show you someone you can intentionally love.

09/06/2026

Pastor Josh explores the Apostle Paul's teaching on love in Romans 13. While we often view love as a fleeting feeling, scripture challenges us to see it as a continuous debt we owe to everyone we meet. This ongoing obligation applies to family, friends, and even strangers.

Watch this video to discover how reframing love as an endless debt can transform your relationships. How does your own "love credit report" look today?

09/03/2026

Why do we celebrate? Because God is here. 🙌 In the words spoken, the songs sung, the instruments played, and the gifts people share—God is present. That is something worth getting excited about. ❤️🎶

Why do we celebrate? 🙌Because God is here.God is in the words spoken and the songs sung. 🎶 God is present when gifts are...
09/03/2026

Why do we celebrate? 🙌

Because God is here.

God is in the words spoken and the songs sung. 🎶 God is present when gifts are shared, when people encourage one another, and when a community gathers to worship.

The guitar.
The cello.
The flute.
The trumpet.
The organ.
The piano. 🎹🎺

Different instruments. Different people. Different gifts.

One celebration.

Psalm 105 calls us to give thanks, sing praise, rejoice, and remember what God has done.

So worship with joy. ❤️

Celebrate with gratitude.

And let your excitement tell the world that God is worth celebrating.

Amen? 🙏

Address

7217 Centralia Road
Ellendale, TN
38135

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 12:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 2pm
Thursday 8:30am - 12:30pm
Sunday 8:30am - 11am

Telephone

+19013860205

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