Order of Worship 08_16_2020

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SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY

11th Sunday of Pentecost

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA)

August 16, 2020 

   Ten Thirty in the morning

                          Minister: The Reverend Aaron Ochart                         

  Liturgist: Karla Russo

Please silence all phones and beepers. 

Bold face indicates congregational participation.

GATHERING

WORDS OF WELCOME

PRELUDE       “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern”                                                                                       (How brightly shines the morning star)                                 J.C. Bach
 

ADORATION

CALL TO WORSHIP   (Isaiah 56:1)  

Maintain justice, and do what is right

God our Savior is coming soon.

            

PRAYER OF THE DAY   (responsive) 

Grant us, O Lord, the grace always to do and think what accords with your purpose; that we, who cannot exist without you, may be enabled to live according to your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

Amen 

                                                                   

HYMN 408       “Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life”            

Where cross the crowded ways of life,
where sound the cries of race and clan,
above the noise of selfish strife,
we hear your voice, O Son of Man.

2 In haunts of wretchedness and need,
on shadowed thresholds fraught with fears,
from paths where hide the lures of greed,
we catch the vision of your tears.

            

CONFESSION 
 

CALL TO CONFESSION    

                                                             

SILENT CONFESSION 
 

PRAYER OF CONFESSION (unison)

Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what our lips tremble to name, what our hearts can no longer bear, and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment. Set us free from a past that we cannot change; open to us a future in which we can be changed; and grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness and image; through Jesus Christ, the light of the world. Amen     

 

ASSURANCE OF PARDON   

Friends, believe the good news of the gospel!

In Jesus Christ we are forgiven, thanks be to God!        

         

PROCLAMATION
 

FIRST LESSON                                               Romans 11:1-2, 29-36

              I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew, For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Just as you were once disobedient to God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience, so they have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy. For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may be merciful to all. O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! ‘For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?’ ‘Or who has given a gift to him, to receive a gift in return?’ For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever. Amen.
 
MESSAGE FOR THE CHILDREN 
 

RESPONSIVE PSALM                                                            Psalm 133

How very good and pleasant it is

    when kindred live together in unity!

It is like the precious oil on the head,

    running down upon the beard,

on the beard of Aaron,

    running down over the collar of his robes.

It is like the dew of Hermon,

    which falls on the mountains of Zion.

For there the Lord ordained his blessing,

    life forevermore.

SECOND LESSON                                                       Matthew 15:22-28

Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.” But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, “Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.” He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” He answered, “It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.” Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed instantly.                          

L: The Word of the Lord.

P: Thanks be to God.        

                 

SERMON                     “Socialized Response”
 

RESPONSE 

REAFFIRMATION OF BAPTISM

Just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many are one body, so it is with Christ.

For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into the one body- Jews or Greeks, slaves or free- and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

Trusting in the gracious mercy of God, do you turn from the ways of sin and renounce evil and its power in the world? I do.

Who is your Lord and Savior? Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.

Will you be Christ’s faithful disciple, obeying his word and showing his love? I will, with God’s help.

AFFIRMATION OF FAITH  (unison)      

Q1. What is the main purpose for humanity?

  1. The main purpose for humanity is to glorify and enjoy God forever.

 

Q2. What rule has God given to tell us how we may glorify and enjoy God?

  1. The Word of God which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments is the only rule to tell us how we may glorify and enjoy God.

 

Q3. What do the Scriptures mainly teach?
A. The Scriptures mainly teach what we are to believe about God, and what duty God requires of us.

 

Q6. How many Persons are there in the Trinity?
A. There are three Persons in the Trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.

 

Q14. What is Sin?

  1. Sin is any lack of obedience to, or violation of, the law of God.


Q18. What does this state of sin mean for humanity?
A. This state of sin means that humanity: bears the guilt of Adam

and Eve’s first sin, lacks the righteousness that God intended for us, and that human nature has been corrupted; along with all actual transgressions which result from our fallen nature.

 

Q21. Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?
A. The only Redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, became man, and so was, and continues to be, God and human, in two distinct natures, and one Person forever.

 

Q30. How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
A. The Spirit applies to us the redemption purchased by Christ by working faith in us, and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.

THANKSGIVING FOR BAPTISM

Remember your baptism and be thankful. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. 
 

THE LORD’S PRAYER               

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 debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever.  Amen
 
Hymn 563                     “Lift Every Voice and Sing”

 Lift ev’ry voice and sing, 
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise 
High as the list’ning skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith 
that the dark past has taught us;
Sing a song full of the hope 
that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun 
Of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.

2 Stony the road we trod, 
Bitter the chast’ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat, 
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our people sighed?
We have come over a way 
that with tears has been watered;
We have come, treading our path 
through the blood of the slaughtered;
Out from the gloomy past, 
Till now we stand at last
Where the bright gleam of our bright star is cast.

 

PARTING PRAYER

O loving God, to turn away from you is to fall, to turn toward you is to rise, and to stand before you is to abide forever. Grant us, dear God, in all our duties your help; in all our uncertainties your guidance; in all our dangers your protection; and in all our sorrows your peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen
 
CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
 

POSTLUDE         “Toccata in E minor” Pachelbel  

 

Participating in today’s service are Rev. Aaron Ochart, Pastor, Julie Hebert, CE Leader, and Sam Garnett, Guest Musician.

Appreciation to David Garland and Dennis Lauland for the video production of today’s service.