News & Announcements It s a Spa Party! WELCA will be hosting a Spa Party on Sunday, August 26th from 2:00pm 5:00pm. Come for some relaxation and fellowship! Sign up on the counter in the Information Center! Lutheran World Relief August Collections: School Kit Supplies We need 70 ct. wide ruled spiral notebooks! Leave your donations in the LWR bin in the Narthex! Contact Kiley James if you are willing to teach Sunday School for the coming year or simply mark your willingness on today s CONNECT Sheet! Our first day of Sunday School for kids & adults for the new year will be on Sunday, September 9th! How can you grow in Christ this year? At Messiah, we are powered by God s Grace! God s grace comes to us as we are. through grains of wheat that comprise the bread of Christ we share and that gathers us into the one Body of Christ. through grapes that are poured out together in the Blood of Christ, as we pour ourselves out into the world. through water that fills the baptismal font, washes us clean, and embraces us as Children of God..through the Holy Spirit that lives within us as the breath of life and that inspires us to live as grace-powered throughout the world. Messiah Lutheran Church, ELCA 415 S. 18th St., Aurora, NE 68818 402-694-2017 www.messiahaurora.org Senior Pastor - Rev. Sarah Ruch 402-833-8218 Pastor of Children, Youth & Family - Rev. Miles Ruch, Jr. 402-833-8219 August 19, 2018 08/19/2018 12 08/19/2018
A warm welcome to all today! May this time of worship strengthen your faith and desire to serve the Creator who loves us with everlasting love in Christ Jesus. Children are welcome in this worship service, and encouraged to participate in any way they are able to. Teach the children sitting around you how to use their hymnals, bulletins, follow the screens, and sing & speak loudly! We value the noise made by our children! Visitors, we are especially glad to see you. Please come again!! As disciples of Christ, we encourage you to CONNECT with ministry opportunities here at Messiah! Please fill out a CONNECT sheet today. After you ve recorded your name(s) and pertinent information, please turn these sheets over and think about the ways in which you can use the gifts and talents given to you in the ministry here at Messiah. CONNECT sheets can be placed in the offering plate as we give our gifts of time, talent, and treasure to God. THIS WEEK AT MESSIAH Sunday, August 19th YOUTH SUNDAY 9:00am -- Worship 12:00pm -- Fellowship Hall Reserved Monday, August 20th 6:00pm -- Stewardship Committee Meeting Tuesday, August 21st 8:30am -- Moms in Prayer 9:00am -- WELCA Quilting 7:00pm -- Daycare Support Group Wednesday, August 22nd 6:30pm -- Parent & Student Confirmation Meeting 7:00pm Youth Group Friday, August 24th 6:30am -- Men s Breakfast Sunday, August 26th 9:00am -- Worship 2:00pm -- WELCA Spa Party DISMISSAL ev ry creature unique in the song that it sings. All exclaining: indescribable, uncontainable; You placed the stars in the sky, and You know them by name. You are amazing, God; All powerful, untamable. Awestruck, we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim You are amazing, God. Who has told ev ry lightning bolt where it should go or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow? Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night? None can fathom. Indescribable, uncontainable; You placed the stars in the sky, and You know them by name. You are amazing, God; All powerful, untamable. Awestruck, we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim You are amazing, God. You are amazing, God. Go in peace, serve the Lord! Rejoicing in the Lord, we will! Copyright 2018 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #SAS000462. New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. 08/19/2018 2 08/19/2018 11
*LORD S PRAYER Serving Us in Worship Today 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. COMMUNION *BLESSING Like a rock, God is under our feet. Like a roof, God is over our heads. Like the horizon, God is beyond us. SENDING God blesses us and sends us in mission to the world. Like water in a pitcher, God is within us and in the pouring out of us. Like a pebble in the sea, we are in God. Let us go out, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, to serve and love. Amen SENDING SONG From the highest of heights to the depths of the sea, creation s revealing Your majesty. From the colors of Fall to the fragrance of Spring, Indescribable 08/19/2018 10 Worship Leaders: Youth Group Members Ushers: Charly James Jay Oswald Youth Ushers: Jameson Herzberg Jeremy Oswald Acolytes: Drew Knust Kaiden Wineteer A Few Notes. Musicians: Connie Nick & Rejoice! Worship Team Greeters: Alex, Grace, Jaylee & Garen Sound Booth: Mark Jobman Video Recorder: Noah Ziegler PowerPoint: Cassidy Knust Worship Asst: Eric Sweeney * Indicates congregation please stand if able. Congregational responses are printed in BOLD type ELW stands for Evangelical Lutheran Worship. This is the Cranberry colored hymnal found in each pew. You are welcome to look up our songs and liturgy in these hymnals, or follow along on the screens. If a p. is listed before the number, these are the small numbers found on the lower corners of each page in the front of the hymnal. If a number is simply listed, these are the large numbers found on the top corners in the back half of the hymnal. Communion today will be celebrated by Intinction. You will be offered a wafer and invited to dip this wafer into the chalice, where both wine and white grape juice are available. Gluten and Nut-free wafers are available from each server. Please simply indicate that this is needed and we will also provide an uncontaminated chalice of wine & grape juice for your use as well. We practice an open communion table at Messiah. If you are a baptized child of God and believe that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior, you are welcome at the table. 08/19/2018 3
Order for Worship GATHERING The Holy Spirit calls us together as the people of God. OFFERING MEAL God feeds us with the presence of Jesus Christ. *THANKSGIVING AT THE TABLE ELW p. 108 GATHERING VIDEO ANNOUNCEMENTS "This Changes Everything" Holy God, you alone are holy, you alone are God. The universe declares your praise: beyond the stars; beneath the sea; within each cell; with every breath. We praise you, O God. GATHERING MUSIC My Lord, what love is this that pays so dearly; that I, the guilty one may go free. Chorus Amazing love, O what sacrifice the Son of God, giv n for me; my debt he pays and my death he dies, that I might live, that I might live. And so why watched him die, despised, rejected; But O the blood He shed flowed for me. Chorus Amazing Love Generations bless your faithfulness: through the water; by night and day; across the wilderness; out of exile; into the future. We bless you, O God. We give you thanks for your dear Son: at the heart of human life; near to those who suffer; beside the sinner; among the poor; with us now. We thank you, O God. In the night in which he was betrayed,...... Do this for the remembrance of me. Again, after supper, he took the cup, gave thanks,...... Do this for the remembrance of me. GATHERING MUSIC And now this love of Christ shall flow like rivers; Come wash your guilt away, live again. Chorus Open the eyes of my heart, Lord, Open the eyes of my heart; I want to see You, I want to see You. Open the eyes of my heart, Lord, Open the eyes of my heart; I want to see You, I want to see You. Open the Eyes of My Heart 08/19/2018 4 Remembering his love for us on the way, at the table, and to the end, we proclaim the mystery of faith: Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again. We pray for the gift of your Spirit: in our gathering; within this meal; among your people; throughout the world. Blessing, praise, and thanks to you, holy God, through Christ Jesus, by your Spirit, in your church, without end. Amen. 08/19/2018 9
my flesh. 52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53 So Jesus said to them, Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; 55 for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. 56 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. 57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever. The gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ. STUDENT STORIES SONG We Are Called ELW 720 *CREED I 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 Throughout the prayers you will be invited to sing, Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying, ELW 752. Please follow the Rejoice Worship Team as to when to sing. *OPENING PRAYER To see You high and lifted up, Shining in the light of Your glory. Pour out Your pow r and love as we sing, Holy, holy, holy. Open the eyes of my heart, Lord, Open the eyes of my heart; I want to see You, I want to see you. O God, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go, but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen *CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Tender and tenacious God, We confess that we have closed our eyes, hearts, and hands when you have reached out and tried to teach us. Making us in your image and calling your creation good, you reveal yourself to us in every human being, And yet we still try to divide people into "us" and "them". Sending us Jesus, the Prince of Peace, you showed us how to love one another, And yet we still resort to violence and might to solve our conflicts. Feeding your people with manna sufficient for the day, you want us to trust that we will have what we need and to share what we can, And yet we still try to hoard the blessings, meant for all. Forgive us, we pray, for failing to hear and heed what you have tried to teach us. Open our eyes so that we may see you in all people, not just in ourselves. That we may be free from hate; 08/19/2018 8 08/19/2018 5
Open our hearts so that we might resist the urge to hoard, and embrace the call to share, That we may be free from need. Christ came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. So then, you are no longer hungry, thirsty, strangers, naked, sick, or imprisoned, but you are all citizens with the saints and also members of the community of God. Members of God's one family, I declare to you in the name of Jesus Christ: you are forgiven. Amen *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 Ever-loving God, your Son gives himself as living bread for the life of the world. Fill us with such a knowledge of his presence that we may be strengthened and sustained by his risen life to serve you continually, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen. WORD God speaks to us in scripture reading, preaching, and song. READING Proverbs 9:1-6 Old Testament pg. 459 1 Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn her seven pillars. 2 She has slaughtered her animals, she has mixed her wine, she has also set her table. 3 She has sent out her servant-girls, she calls from the highest places in the town, 4 You that are simple, turn in here! To those without sense she says, 5 Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. 6 Lay aside immaturity, and live, and walk in the way of insight. Word of God, word of life. Thanks be to God. READING Ephesians 5:15-20 New Testament pg. 150 15 Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, 16 making the most of the time, because the days are evil. 17 So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit, 19 as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts, 20 giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Word of God, word of life. Thanks be to God. CHILDREN S MESSAGE Allelu, allelu, allelu, alleluia, praise ye the Lord! Allelu, allelu, allelu, alleluia praise ye the Lord! Praise ye the Lord, alleluia! Praise ye the Lord, alleluia! Praise ye the Lord, alleluia! Praise ye the Lord! *GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Halle, Halle, Hallelujah ELW 172 *GOSPEL John 6:51-58 New Testament pg. 75 [Jesus said,] 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is 08/19/2018 6 08/19/2018 7