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SUN., November 15 - WELL DONE ...

Updated: Nov 15, 2020

Meeting ID: 619 327 455

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... GOOD and FAITHFUL Servant ... Twenty-Fourth Sunday of Pentecost

10:45 - Leader's Meeting

11:00 - Coffee Hour in 11 Minutes

(Sip your coffee and discuss Psalm 116 or Matthew 25 or 1 Thessalonians 5 ... and how God might reach a Wide Range of People through us during this season of Pentecost ... or what does COMPANIONSHIP mean to you?)

11:11 - WORSHIP BEGINS


Let us Talents and Tongues Employ, led by young Maggie and Drew Malone, Graystone Presbyterian Church; Let us Talents and Tongues Employ, with words, led by the First Plymouth Church Choir, Lincoln Nebraska
Wake, Awake!, National Lutheran Choir, F. Melius Christainsen, Pastor Todd sang the Bach Arrangement of this song with organ in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Scotland, Wales, & Germany

PSALM 116:9-19 read by #1

I'm striding in the presence of God, alive in the land of the living!

I stayed faithful, though bedeviled, and despite a ton of bad luck, despite giving up on the human race, saying, "They're all liars and cheats."

What can I give back to God for the blessings he's poured out on me? I'll lift high the cup of salvation - a toast to God! I'll pray in the name of God; I'll complete what I promised God I'd do, and I'll do it together with his people. When they arrive at the gates of death, God welcomes those who love him.

Oh, God, here I am, your servant, your faithful servant: set me free for your service!

I'm ready to offer the thanksgiving sacrifice and pray in the name of God.

I'll complete what I promised God I'd do, and I'll do it in company with his people, in the place of worship, in God's house, in Jerusalem, God's city. Hallelujah!

A) FIRST SONG: Every Praise, led by Hezekiah Walker, from the WOW Gospel 2014 Album

  • Please MUTE and SING (lyrics may be in the video)

  • Every praise is to our God. Every word of worship with one accord Every praise every praise is to our God. Sing hallelujah to our God Glory hallelujah is due our God. Every praise every praise is to our God.

  • God my Savior, God my Healer God my Deliverer, Yes He is, yes He is

  • Yes He is, yes He is, yes He is, yes He is

  • All of my worship, every praise, Every praise, every praise When you see me dancing, every praise, Every praise, every praise When you see me shoutin', every praise, every praise, to our God Is to our God

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, DAY BY DAY, 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.


I) THIS Sunday, November 15

What Liturgy Piece do you miss most?

Detroit Folk Mass, by James Harris and Tillis Butler, Fortress Press

II) NEXT Wednesday November 18 @ 7 PM,

Community Organizing follow up conversation to the BIBLE STUDY on ACTS 4

with Christ Lutheran: arranged by Pastor Ben Dueholm

III) Reports from the EZEKIEL 44:5 EXPERIMENT

EVERYONE is a part of one Project or the Other:

THANKSGIVING DISTRIBUTION to 51 Families with Christ Lutheran

Team: Helen, Tanya, Alicia, Marie, Carlos, Drake, Keith, Joe, Terry, Josh,

WORSHIP & ZOOM Leadership

1) Zoom Christmas Party (Sunday, December 20?)

2) Blue Christmas Service on Zoom at 7 PM (Tuesday, December 22)

3) Christmas Eve Service on Zoom from Mt. Olive at 7 PM?

(Thursday, December 24)

Team: Jackie, Yarlette, Lakeesha, Mary, Corey, Vetia, Rosa, Allyssia,

Zerlene, Walter, Quinland

IV) The WITNESS of the Acts of the Apostles at Mt Olive:

1) Sunday, October 18 -- Jackie, 2) Sunday, November 1 -- Helen

3) Wednesday, November 4 -- Yarlett, 4) Sunday, November 8 -- Walter

5) Sunday, November 15 -- La'Nayia

6) Sunday, November 22 -- Vetia, Tanya or Carlos?

Maybe: Tanya, Carlos, Drake, Corey, Vetia, Keith, Terry, Mary,

Joe, Rosa, Allyssia, Josh, Zerlene

7) Sunday, November 29 -- Dolphene Davis

HOST: Tanya, GUIDE: Carlos,

PREACH: Dolphene, PRESIDE: Lakeesha

8) Sunday, December 6 -- Corey, Keith or Drake?

HOST: Lakeesha, GUIDE: Alicia,

PREACH: Corey, PRESIDE: Vetia

IV) LOSSES, RESILIENCY & HOPE for the HOLIDAYS:

Pastor Todd and Pastor Jermine from Pathways to Promise

will lead a Zoom conversation for the Saint Luke's Community UMC Mental Health Ministry, about how Companionship helps Heal during the Holidays.

Saturday, November 21, from 10:15 am – 10:45 am

V) IT'S MY TESTIMONY: Wednesday Night(s) in Advent

How to WRITE and READ and LEAD Devotionals, every day of every week, but especially at special times of the year.

B) SECOND LESSON: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11, led by #2

  • 2) Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. When they say, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape! But you, beloved, are not in darkness, for that day to surprise you like a thief; for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness.

  • So then let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober; for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

  • For God has destined us not for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live with him.

Therefore encourage one another and build up each other,

as indeed you are doing.

This is the Word of the Lord.

Thanks Be to God!!


a Listener Kids video

Resistance Revival Chorus

D) KYRIE, led by Carlos Leggett

  • In peace, let us pray to the Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

  • For the peace from above, and for our salvation, let us pray to the Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

  • For the peace of the whole world, for the well-being of the Church of God, and for the unity of all, let us pray to the Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

  • For this holy house, and for all who offer here their worship and praise, let us pray to the Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

  • Help, save, comfort, and defend us, gracious Lord.

Amen.

E) LITURGY & PRAYER led by #4 & #5

  • 5) 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 FAITHER 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.

  • 5) 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.

  • 5) 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.

WE DO. 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.

B) GOSPEL LESSON: Matthew 25:14-30, led by #6

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


Our Gospel Lesson comes from Matthew in the 25th Chapter.

GLORY TO YOU, O LORD!

  • 5) "For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.

  • 6) The one who had received the five talents went off at once and traded with them, and made five more talents.

  • 7) In the same way, the one who had the two talents made two more talents.

  • 8) But the one who had received the one talent went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.

  • 5) After a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them.

  • 6) Then the one who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five more talents, saying, "Master, you handed over to me five talents; see, I have made five more talents.' His master said to him:

"Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.'

  • 7) And the one with the two talents also came forward, saying, "Master, you handed over to me two talents; see, I have made two more talents.' His master said to him:

"Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.'

  • 8) Then the one who had received the one talent also came forward, saying, "Master, I knew that you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed; so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.'

  • 5) But his master replied, "You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to the one with the ten talents.

For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.

  • As for this worthless slave, throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

This is the Gospel of the Lord.

PRAISE TO YOU, OH CHRIST

G) SECOND SONG: This Means War, led by Charles Jenkins & Fellowship Chicago

Please MUTE and SING along (lyrics in the video)

H) SERMON: A Witness - Well Done ... Good and Faithful Servant, a message by La'Niyia Goffney


Sermon Series:

How EVERYBODY Benefits from the Witness of the BLACK CHURCH


1) LIFTED UP within an AFFIRMING COMMUNITY

2) SPEAKING to POWER with a POWERFUL VOICE

3) REMEMBERING a LIFE GIVING STORY about FREEDOM

4) ORGANIZING to EFFECT ECONOMIC JUSTICE

5) ADVOCATING for PEOPLE whose VOICE is NOT HEARD

6) DRAMATIC MOVEMENT in MUSIC, the ARTS, & SPORTS

J) THIRD SONG: I Need Just a Little More Jesus, led by Mary Mary's Erica Campbell from the 2014! "A Little More Jesus" Album, co-written by Erica, Warryn, And Tina Campbell.

  • Please MUTE and SING (lyrics in the Video)

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.

1) Lamb, Of God, led by Dolphene Davis
2) I Surrender All, led by Tanya Browne & Pastor Todd

Please MUTE & SING:

* AND *

  • REFRAIN: I surrender all, I surrender all, All to thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all.

  1. All to Jesus I surrender, All to him I freely give; I will ever love and trust him, In his presence daily live.

  2. All to Jesus I surrender, Humbly at his feet I bow, Worldly pleasures all forsaken, Take me, Jesus, take me now. (REFRAIN:)

  3. All to Jesus I surrender; Make me, Savior, wholly thine; Let me feel the Holy Spirit, Truly know that thou art mine. (REFRAIN:)

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: It Is Well With My Soul, with a Benediction, led by Pastor Todd

Please MUTE and SING along (lyrics in Video)

  • CHORUS: It is well, it is well with my soul It is well with my soul It is well with my soul It is well, it is well with my soul

  1. When peace like a river attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll, Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say

  2. My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought, My sin, not in part, but the whole, Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul,

  3. And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight, The clouds be rolled back as a scroll, The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend, Even so, it is well with my soul

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!!

EVERYBODY benefits from the Witness of the BLACK CHURCH

1) LIFTED UP within an AFFIRMING COMMUNITY

2) SPEAKING to POWER with a POWERFUL VOICE

3) REMEMBERING a LIFE GIVING STORY about FREEDOM

4) ORGANIZING to EFFECT ECONOMIC JUSTICE

5) ADVOCATING for PEOPLE whose VOICE is NOT HEARD

6) DRAMATIC MOVEMENT in MUSIC, the ARTS, & SPORTS


NEXT THREE STEPS

A) NEXT Wednesday November 18 @ 7 PM,

Follow up to the BIBLE STUDY on ACTS: with Christ Lutheran Church

B) NEXT STEPS for EZEKIEL EXPERIMENT: Clean Hands Project & Clean Hearts Project

C) NEXT STEPS for ACTS of the APOSTLES Witnesses


POSTLUDE 1: I Need Just a Little More Jesus, led by Mary Mary's Erica Campbell (At Home Edition) and the whole family.
POSTLUDE 2: I Need Just a Little More Jesus, led by Mary Mary's Erica Campbell and the St. Matthew Praise Dancers posted by JaJuan Ford
POSTLUDE 3: I Need Just a Little More Jesus, led by Mary Mary's Erica Campbell and the CGBC Dance Ministry in Athens, Georgia
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