Order Of Worship 10_11_2020

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SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY

19th Sunday of Pentecost

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA)

October 11, 2020 

   Ten Thirty in the morning

                            Minister: The Reverend Aaron Ochart                           

Liturgist: Emily Garland

Please silence all phones and beepers. 

Bold face indicates congregational participation.
 

GATHERING

 

WORDS OF WELCOME

 

STEWARDSHIP PRESENTATION: Emily Garland

 

PRELUDE       Adagio from Toccata Undecima – George Muffat     

 

ADORATION

CALL TO WORSHIP 

Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead. 

This is the good news we proclaim.  
 

PRAYER OF THE DAY 

Faithful God of an unfaithful people,

The people of Israel doubted your power and turned to other gods to fulfill their needs. We too, turn to other gods, seeking acceptance, power, and independence. Show us how to live humbly in you, and walk in your ways, in the name of the one who offered true power to all humanity, Jesus Christ. 

Amen     

                                 

HYMN 415              “Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy”                 From Glory to God Hymnal
 

CALL TO CONFESSION   

     

SILENT CONFESSION    

                                                     

PRAYER OF CONFESSION (unison)
Eternal God, our judge and redeemer, we confess that we have tried to hide from you, for we have done wrong. We have lived for ourselves, and apart from you. We have turned from our neighbors, and refused to bear the burdens of others. We have ignored the pain of the world, and passed by the hungry, the poor, and the oppressed. In your great mercy forgive our sins and free us from selfishness, that we may choose your will and obey your commandments; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen
 

ASSURANCE OF PARDON          

           

GLORIA PATRI 579      

 

PROCLAMATION

FIRST LESSON           Luke 23:32-38

Two others also, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” And they cast lots to divide his clothing. And the people stood by, watching; but the leaders scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah of God, his chosen one!” The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine, and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!” There was also an inscription over him, “This is the King of the Jews.” 
 
MESSAGE FOR THE CHILDREN   
 

ANTHEM                      Treasures in Heaven Joseph Clokey

Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, 

Where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal,

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heav’n,

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; 

Knock, and it shall be opened unto you,

For ev’ry one that asketh receiveth, And he that seeketh findeth,

And to him that knocketh it shall be opened.      

 

Second Lesson                                                                                                   Exodus 32:1-14

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” Aaron said to them, “Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to

me.” So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears, and brought them to Aaron. He took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf; and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a festival to the LORD.” They rose early the next day, and offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.

The LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely; they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’” The LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are. Now let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and of you I will make a great nation.”

But Moses implored the LORD his God, and said, “O LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’” And the LORD changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.

L: The Word of the Lord.

P: Thanks be to God. 
 
SERMON                   “Misplaced Focus”         The Rev. Aaron Ochart
 

 RESPONSE 

AFFIRMATION OF FAITH Brief Statement of Faith 11.1-2

In life and in death we belong to God.

Through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the love of God,

and the communion of the Holy Spirit,

we trust in the one triune God, the Holy One of Israel,

whom alone we worship and serve.

We trust in Jesus Christ,

Fully human, fully God.

Jesus proclaimed the reign of God:

preaching good news to the poor

and release to the captives,

teaching by word and deed

and blessing the children,

healing the sick

and binding up the brokenhearted,

eating with outcasts,

forgiving sinners,

and calling all to repent and believe the gospel.

Unjustly condemned for blasphemy and sedition,

Jesus was crucified,

suffering the depths of human pain

and giving his life for the sins of the world.

God raised this Jesus from the dead,

vindicating his sinless life,

breaking the power of sin and evil,

delivering us from death to life eternal. 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 422                “Create in Me A Clean Heart”                          From Glory to God Hymnal
 

PARTING PRAYER

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not seek so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen
 
CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
 
POSTLUDE         Es ist das Heil uns kommen her BWV 638 –  J.S. Bach