St. Paul Lutheran ChurchSunday, June 28th, 2020

Welcome to St. Paul Lutheran Church. We are grateful to God you are with us.We pray that you will feel the Spirit and warmth during this service.

We look forward to being together, soon!

Prelude

Words of Welcome

Preparing for Worship

Take a minute to be in silent prayer. Invite the Holy Spirit to quiet your mind, open your heart and guide you during this time of worship

Confession and Forgiveness

All may make the sign of the cross, the sign marked at baptism, as the presiding minister begins.

P: Bountiful God, we voice our gratitude in prayer and song and the offering of ourselves in dedication to your church. You are saving us from our sins as we trust in Jesus Christ our Savior and worship in the Spirit.

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

All: Perfect Father, worthy Son, uniting Spirit, our love for you is not as worthy of you as it should be. Other loves compete in us for our response to your grace. Our feet have been set upon a new path of life through our baptism into Christ. We admit that we stray from that way, returning to the ways of death that should be left behind. We presume upon your grace by our sinning rather than draw upon the new life that is available to us in union with Christ Jesus. Forgive us for allowing your life and love to go so unrequited, for the sake of your devoted Son, Jesus Christ. Amen

DECLARATION OF FORGIVENESS

P: Friends, hear the Good News! Remember that in baptism we were baptized into the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ,All: People: so that we may no longer be the slaves of sin, but alive to God.P: Friends, believe the Good News!All: People: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven.P: Set your feet upon the new path of life in the company of Jesus, and leave behind the old ways of sin and death.

All: Amen.

Hymn: “All Are Welcome” ELW #641

(please join the choir in singing this mornings hymn)

Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live, a place where saints and children tell how hearts learn to forgive. Built of hopes and dreams and visions, rock of faith and vault of grace; here the love of Christ shall end divisions:

RefrainAll are welcome, all are welcome, all are welcome in this place

Let us build a house where hands will reach beyond the wood and stone to heal and strengthen, serve and teach, and live the Word they’ve known. Here the outcast and the stranger bear the image of God’s face; let us bring an end to fear and danger: (Refrain)

WordPrayer of the Day

P: Divine-Human Cross-bearer and Leader, lead us away from goals that have been set by our families or ourselves, goals that are short of your purposes for us and for your whole family, that we may be worthy disciples and cross-bearers, for your sake. Amen

First Reading: Romans 6:12-23

Sin is an enslaving power which motivates us to live self-serving, disobedient lives. Sin’s final payoff is death. We, however, have been set free from sin’s slavery to live obediently under God’s grace, whose end is the free gift of eternal life.

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.

The Word of the Lord Thanks be to God

Gospel Reading: Matthew 10:40-42

[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 Our Lord Praise To You O Christ

Message: Pastor Fred Hanson

Special Music: “This is Amazing Grace” The Band

Holy Communion

The Great Thanks Giving

P: The Lord be with youAll: And also with youP: Lift up your hearts All: We lift them up to the Lord.P: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.All: It is right to give our thanks and praise.

P: You are holy, O God of majesty, and blessed is Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord. You sent your only-begotten, in whom your fullness dwells, to be for us the way, the truth, and the life. Revealing your love, Jesus taught those who would hear him, healed those who believed in him, received all who sought him and lifted the burden of their sin. We glorify you for your great power and love at work in Christ. By the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection, you gave birth to your church, delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made us a new people by water and the Spirit. With humility and gratefulness of heart we receive your love and forgiveness in the bread and wine. All: Amen

Word of Institution

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 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

When the pastor says, “The Body of Christ given for you” eat the bread, and when the pastor says, “The Blood of Christ shed for you” drink the wine or juice.

Post Communion Prayer and Blessing

Special Music: “In the Garden” The Choir