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Zoom Service June 21, 2020

COVID Devotion 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time June 21, 2020 Prelude Todd Ihrig Call to Worship One: Gladden the souls of your servants, O God! All: To you, O Lord, we lift up our hearts. One: The Lord is good and forgiving, abounding on steadfast love. All: Listen to our cries, O God, and answer. One: God is great and does wondrous things, All: So we come to worship and bow down before you, O Lord. One: Let us glorify God’s name together. Prayer of Adoration and Confession God of grace, you created our minds to grow in wisdom. You created our hearts to expand with love for you and your world. You created our voices to sing your praises forever. Fill us to overflowing with your Holy Spirit, so we may worship you in spirit and in truth, bold and unafraid to follow you in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. God who creates the future, you call us to follow you, yet we confess we prefer to remain where we are. You offer us new beginnings, yet we continue to make the same familiar choices. You invite us into the fullness of life, yet we distance ourselves from you and each other through fear and doubt. Forgive us, O God. Cleanse from us every unworthy thought, word and deed with the grace of Christ our Lord. Rouse us by the Spirit to be intentional, courageous disciples even when the world does not welcome us or the word we proclaim in Jesus’ name. Amen. Assurance of Pardon In Christ, we are made a new creation; the old life is gone, and the new life has come! Know that God loves you and forgives you. Do not be afraid to make a new start! Special Music Todd Ihrig Prayer for Understanding God of wisdom, by the power of your Holy Spirit, open our minds to your truth, our hearts to your gospel, and our hands so that we can do your will. In the name of Jesus, your Living Word, we pray. Amen. Scripture Matthew 10:24-39 24"A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master;25it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household! 26"So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known.27What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops.28Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.29Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 30And even the hairs of your head are all counted. 31So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows. 32"Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven;33but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven. 34"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.35For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;36and one's foes will be members of one's own household.37Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;38and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me.39Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. Meditation on the Word Rev. KT Ockels Sharing of Joys and Concerns Announcements Prayers of the People Lord’s Prayer Closing Hymn Let Us Be Bread STF 2260 //Let us be bread, blessed by the Lord, broken and shared, life for the world. Let us be wine, love freely poured. Let us be one in the Lord. //(2x) Charge and Benediction All: Go with humility and grace, opening your arms to those around you. Go with your eyes open to see new people and places to love. Go, being fully you and celebrate the joy of the Lord. One: And know that the God who creates you anew, the Christ who liberates you and the Spirit who empowers, the three-in-one, the one True God, goes with you, today and always. Amen. P

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