All are welcome! All races, ages, sexes, abilities, families, sexual orientations, financial circumstances, life experiences, ethnicities, nationalities, gender identities, colors…everyone!

Tips for getting the most out of this worship time together:

• Consider streaming to your television if you are able.

• Plan to stand and sit as you would if you were in the sanctuary. (Do you need to move a chair closer that would make this easier?)

• Download the bulletin to a tablet, or print it out so you can participate fully.

• Sing, pray, and participate as you would if you were in the sanctuary! (tip: turning up the volume a little bit will make this feel more natural).

June 28, 2020

GATHERING: The Holy Spirit calls us together as the people of God

Prelude: Andante tranquillo, from Sonata #3 | Felix Mendelssohn

[ELW 325] Gathering Hymn: I Want Jesus to Walk with Me

Greeting 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.

Prayer of the DayO God, you direct our lives by your grace, and your words of justice and mercy reshape the world. Mold us into a people who welcome your word and serve one another, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.

Amen.The assembly is seated.

WORD: God speaks to us in scripture reading, preaching, and song

First Reading: Jeremiah 28:5-9A reading from Jeremiah.5The prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the Lord; 6and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the Lord do so; may the Lord fulfill the words that you have prophesied, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the exiles. 7But listen now to this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people. 8The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms. 9As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes true, then it will be known that the Lord has truly sent the prophet.”

Word of God, word of life.Thanks be to God.

Psalm 89:1-4, 15-18

1Your love, O Lord, forever will I sing; from age to age my mouth will proclaim your faithfulness. 2For I am persuaded that your steadfast love is established forever; you have set your faithfulness firmly in the heavens. 3“I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn an oath to David my servant: 4‘I will establish your line forever, and preserve your throne for all generations.’ REFRAIN

15Happy are the people who know the festal shout! They walk, O Lord, in the light of your presence. 16They rejoice daily in your name; they are jubilant in your righteousness. 17For you are the glory of their strength, and by your favor our might is exalted. 18Truly, our shield belongs to the Lord; our king to the Holy One of Israel. REFRAIN

Second Reading: Romans 6:12-23A reading from Romans.12Do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. 13No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. 14For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. 15What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, 18and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

20When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death. 22But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Word of God, word of life.Thanks be to God.

The assembly stands to welcome the gospel.

Gospel Acclamation

Gospel: Matthew 10:40-42The holy gospel according to Matthew.

Glory to you, O Lord.[Jesus said to the twelve:] 40“Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41Whoever 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; 42and 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.”

The gospel of the Lord.Praise to you, O Christ.

The assembly is seated.

Children’s Sermon Elizabeth Hood

Sermon Pastor Matthew Smuts

The assembly stands to proclaim the word of God in song.

[ELW 522 ] Hymn of the Day: As We Gather at Your Table

Apostles’ CreedI 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.

Prayers of IntercessionThe assisting minister invites the assembly into prayer. After each petition:

Hear us, O God.Your mercy is great.

PeaceThe presiding minister and the assembly greet each other in the peace of the risen Christ.

The peace of Christ be with you always.And also with you.

The assembly is seated.

MEAL: God feeds us with the presence of Jesus Christ.

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The assembly stands.

[ELW 610] Offertory Song: O Christ, the Healer, We Have Come

Great ThanksgivingThe presiding minister greets the assembly and invites all present to give thanks.

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, our duty and our joy, that we should at all times and in all places give thanks and praise to you, almighty and merciful God, through our Savior Jesus Christ; 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 all the choirs of angels, with the church on earth and the hosts of heaven, we praise your name and join their unending hymn:

The presiding minister continues with a prayer of thanksgiving. We conclude:

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread.Forgive us our sins

as we forgive those who sin against us.Save us from the time of trial

and deliver us from evil.For the kingdom, the power,

and the glory are yours, now and forever. Amen.

CommunionThe assembly is seated.

SENDING: God blesses us and sends us in mission to the world

Prayer for the Sending of Communion to the HomeboundGracious God, loving all your family with a mother’s tender care: As you sent the angel to feed Elijah with heavenly bread, assist those who set forth to share your word and sacrament with those who are at home. In your love and care, nourish and strengthen those to whom we bring this sacrament, that through the body and blood of your Son we all may know the comfort of your abiding presence.

Amen.

Blessing Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.

God, the creator, + Jesus, the Christ, and the Holy Spirit, the comforter, bless you and keep you in eternal love.

Amen.

[ELW 723] Sending Hymn: Canticle of the Turning

DismissalGo in peace. Christ is with you.

Thanks be to God.

Postlude

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