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SUN. June 28 - A Cup of Cold, Cold Water

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CUP OF COLD WATER - Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

10:45 - Leader's Meeting

11:00 - Coffee Hour in 15 Minutes (Sip your coffee and discuss Matthew 25 and how God might reach a Wide Range of People through us during this season of Pentecost)

11:11 - WORSHIP BEGINS


A CUP of COLD WATER

Matthew 9:9-13 (read by #1)

9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. 10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means:

‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’

For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

A) FIRST SONG: We Shall Not Be Moved, led by Mavis Staples and The Staple Singers at Chicago Symphony Center in April, 2014

Please MUTE and SING ... lyrics are on the Screen

  • We shall not we shall not be moved We shall not we shall not be moved Just like a tree that's standing by the water side We shall not be moved

  • We're fighting for our children

  • We shall not we shall not be moved We shall not we shall not be moved Just like a tree that's standing by the water side We shall not be moved

ANNOUNCEMENTS
What is the mission of Mt. Olive Lutheran Church?

To Serve as a VEHICLE through which the Gospel is Spread!!!


In the next 6 weeks we will be intentional about being a VEHICLE

that will deliver CONFIDENCE, COMPASSION, and COMPANIONSHIP

to a tremendously anxious COMMUNITY,

remembering that God is our REFUGE & STRENGTH.


1) NONE of the Songs offered today for worship were requested in the:

2) First 15 + Second 16 + Third 32 + Jesus = 72 Companionship CIRCLE of CARE

3) Four Meetings: 1) A Bible Study, 2) A Companion Covenant, 3) A Prayer Meeting & 4) A Care Kit

Wednesday at 7 PM -- June 10, 17, 24, & July 1

Thursday at 7 PM -- June 11, 18, 25, & July 2

4) A June/July Zoom Bible Study Leader ... or Zoom Chat Group Leader ... is there a past pastor we could call upon ... or a partner pastor?


B) FIRST LESSON: Judges 7:1-8, led by #2
  • Early in the morning, Gideon and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh. The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’ Now announce to the army, ‘Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained.

  • But the Lord said to Gideon, “There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I say, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go; but if I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.” So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the Lord told him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.” Three hundred of them drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.

  • The Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.” So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others.

This is the Word of the Lord.

THANKS BE TO GOD.

D) MESSAGE for the YOUNG at HEART, led by Yarlette Bryant, Sydney Brown and the gifted Goffney Girls
E) LITURGY & PRAYER led by #3 & #4
  • 3) The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

AND ALSO WITH YOU

  • 4) We gather together and share a CREED to remember that in God, we have a Companion who will never fail us and will be with us always. It is a CREED that reminds us that death is never the final answer, and the hope springs eternal for those who follow the God of Resurrection and Life.

I BELIEVE IN GOD,

the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST,

God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead.* On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT,

the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

  • 3) We take this moment to confess our sins: Do you confess that you are captive to sin and cannot free yourself from this trap of sin and death, at least not in this life? Do you confess that you have sinned against God in anger, rebellion, frustration, doubt and fear.

WE DO.

  • 4) Do you confess that, because your neighbor fails to love in the way that God commands, that you also have not loved your neighbor as yourself? Do you confess that you struggle to love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength?

WE DO.

  • 3) Do you ask, with the help of Jesus Christ, Forgive us, Lord, renew us, and lead us, so that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your holy name.

AMEN

  • 4) Brothers and sisters hear this grace: In the mercy of almighty God, Jesus Christ was given to die for you and for His sake, God forgives you all of your sins. As a called disciple of Christ I declare the entire forgiveness of all of your sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

AMEN

F) GOSPEL LESSON: Matthew 10:40-42

Our Gospel Lesson comes from the Matthew in the 9th Chapter.

GLORY TO YOU, O LORD!

Halle, Halle, Halle-lujah, led by Tanya Browne & Dolphene Davis

  • 40 "Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41 Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; 42 and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward."

This is the Gospel of the Lord.

PRAISE TO YOU, O CHRIST.

G: SECOND SONG: Rise Again, led by Carlos Leggett
  • Go ahead, drive the nails in My hands Laugh at Me, where you stand Go ahead, and say it isn't Me The day will come, when you will see

  • 'Cause I'll rise, again Ain't no power on earth can tie Me down Yes, I'll rise, again Death can't keep Me in the ground Go ahead, and mock My name My love for you is still the same Go ahead, and bury Me But very soon, you will be free

  • 'Cause I'll rise, again Ain't no power on earth can tie Me down Yes, I'll rise, again Death can't keep Me in the ground

  • Go ahead, and say I'm dead and gone But you will see that you were wrong Go ahead, try to hide the Son But all will see that I'm the One 'Cause I'll come again There's no power on earth can keep me back Yes, I'll come again Come to take My people back



J) THIRD SONG: Down to the River to Pray, (by George H. Allan, Slave Songs of the United States, 1867, #104) led by Pastor Todd

Please MUTE and SING along

  • As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good ol' way And who shall wear the starry crown Good Lord, show me the way

  • O brother, let's go down Let's go down, come on down O brother, let's go down Down in the river to pray

  • As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good ol' way And who shall wear the robe and crown Good Lord, show me the way

  • O sister, let's go down

  • O sinner, let's go down

  • O Jesus, let's go down

K) LITURGY of HOLY COMMUNION Lord, God, Heavenly King .... Led by Tanya Browne
  • LORD, GOD, HEAVENLY KING, Almighty God and Father, we worship you, we give you thanks, we praise you for your glory, Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Faither, Lord, God, Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world, have mercy on us,

  • You are seated at the right hand of the Father, receive our prayer. For you alone are the Holy One, You alone are the Lord, You alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit, In the Glory of God the Father, Amen.

GREAT THANKSGIVING & Preface by #7

Please UNMute & RESPOND

The Lord be with you,

AND ALSO WITH YOU

Lift up your hearts

WE LIFT THEM TO THE LORD!

Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God.

IT IS RIGHT TO GIVE OUR THANKS AND PRAISE.


It is indeed right and salutary that we should at all times and in all places offer thanks and praise to you, O Lord, Holy Father, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who on this day overcame death and the grave and by his glorious resurrection opened to us the way of everlasting life. And so with the Church on Earth and all the hosts of heaven we praise your name and join their unending hymn.

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord, led by Pastor Todd

Please MUTE & SING:

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD, Lord God of power and might. Heaven and earth are full of your glory, Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he, who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna, in the highest.

WORDS OF INSTITUTION & Lord's Prayer, led by #7

The Words of Institution are recorded for us in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke as well as by St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:

  • “Our Lord Jesus Christ, on the night in which He was betrayed, took bread and when He had given thanks, He broke it and gave it to His disciples saying: ‘Take and eat; this is My body, which is given for you. This do in remembrance of Me.’

  • “In the same way also He took the cup after supper, gave thanks, and gave it to them saying: ‘Drink of it all of you; this cup is the New Covenant in My blood, which is shed for you and for all people, for the remission of sins. This do as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.'”

When the disciples didn't know how to PRAY in the face of the challenges ahead of them, they asked Jesus for help. He said, "Pray this way!" Will you share with me the Lord's Prayer?

Please UNMute & RESPOND

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,

thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread;

and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us;

and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

Lamb, Of God, led by Dolphene Davis & God Will Take Care of You, led by Mahalia Jackson

Please MUTE & SING:

L) Post Communion Blessing & Prayer led by #7

ALL: May the body and blood of our Risen Lord, Jesus the Christ, strengthen you and keep you in His grace, now and always. Amen.

  • Let us pray. Life-giving God, in the mystery of Christ’s resurrection you send light to conquer darkness, water to give new life, and the bread of life to nourish your people. Help us to stand with Jesus as witnesses to your Son’s resurrection, that we may show your glory to all the world, through Jesus Christ, our risen Lord. AMEN.

M) BENEDICTION: Amen/We Shall Overcome, led by Shades Virtual Spring Jam 2020

Please MUTE & SING:

SENDING: Led by led by #7

What is the mission of Mt. Olive Lutheran Church?

TO SERVE as a VEHICLE through which the Gospel is Spread!!!

Go in Peace and Serve the Lord!

Thanks be to God!! And WE WILL!!

BIG PARTIES start in SMALL GROUPS

We start with FOUR ZOOM MEETINGS this SUMMER

as we Learn to Share through CIRCLES OF CARE

  1. 1st Zoom Meeting is a Bible Study

  2. 2nd Zoom Meeting is a Companionship Covenant.

  3. 3rd Zoom Meeting teaches us to ask Caring Questions.

  4. 4th Zoom Meeting prepares us to share a Prayer Meeting and deliver Companionship Care Kits.

NEXT THREE STEPS

7 PM - Wednesday, July 1 – Helen's Circle meets for the Fourth Time

7 PM - Thursday, July 2Jackie's Circle meets for the Fourth Time

RIGHT NOW – First Fifteen meet briefly to determine who is in each Circle

POSTLUDE: We Shall Not Be Moved, led by Thrive Sunday Choir in Oakland, CA
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