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2580 Mt. Rose Ave., York, PA 17402 (717-840-0382)

www.StJohnYorkPA.com

June 28, 2020 10:00 am

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WELCOME TO OUR GUESTS

Friend, welcome to St. John! This booklet will lead you through today’s service. Following the service, please introduce yourself to Pastor Cosgrove. We pray God would use today’s worship service to touch your heart with His grace.

HOLY COMMUNION We invite baptized Christians who acknowledge their sinfulness, trust in Christ as their Savior and recognize the real presence of Christ’s Body and Blood in the bread and wine for the forgiveness of their sins to join us for the Lord’s Supper. As you approach the communion rail please remain standing until the pastor says, “Welcome to the Lord’s table.” At that point you may kneel if you are able. If you are unable to kneel, it is ok to remain standing. As you leave the table exit by the outside aisles on either side of the Sanctuary. Those who choose not to commune may come forward and signal their desire to receive a prayer of blessing by crossing their hands over their heart. Children who have received instruction about The Lord’s Supper may commune.

Because we are “family” we welcome and encourage the attendance of small children in our worship services. Children can learn to worship Jesus at a very early age, especially when we involve them in the service and explain to them what we are doing. We also understand that children will, at times, become restless. If your child becomes excessively restless and creates a commotion that might be detrimental to the worship of others, please use any of the following to comfort or calm your child: the rocking chairs at the rear of the church; a “Busy Bag” hanging in the narthex; the narthex itself or an adjacent hallway; the nursery – in the Fellowship Hall (ask the ushers for directions).

Children’s Bulletins are also available for our younger worshippers. Please see any usher for a Children’s Bulletin.

Hearing assistance units and large print bulletins are available from an usher.

THANK YOU to the Volunteers who served us today. (please refer to the announcements for their names)

OUR MISSION STATEMENT

“St. John will do whatever it takes for the sake of God’s Kingdom.”

We accomplish this by: RELY(ing) on God; RELATE (ing) to each other as Christ taught;

RESPOND (ing) to His grace with the help of the Holy Spirit

If you have a special PRAYER REQUEST to be included in

today’s Prayers, please fill out the blue “Prayer Request” card in the

pew rack and place it in the offering plate as it is passed.

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FOURTH SUNDAY

AFTER PENTECOST June 28, 2020

10:00 am

PRELUDE “Shine, Jesus, Shine” Kendrick

WELCOME

PREPARATION

OPENING SONG “You Are My Strength When I Am Weak” Jernigan

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Congregation Stands

INVOCATION

P In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. C Amen.

CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION

P Our help is in the name of the Lord, C who made heaven and earth. P If You, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? C But with You there is forgiveness; therefore You are feared. P Because we cannot free ourselves from our sinful condition and have sinned in

thought, word, and deed, let us employ the faith the Holy Spirit has given us and go to our gracious heavenly Father, asking His forgiveness for the sake of His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

C Almighty God, have mercy upon us, forgive us our sins, and lead us to everlasting life. Amen.

P Almighty God has given His only Son to bear the punishment of our sins on the cross so that we might know the peace of His presence now and the joys of heaven hereafter. As a called and ordained servant of Christ, I therefore declare to you the entire forgiveness of all your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

C Amen.

WORD

PRAYER OF THE DAY

P The Lord be with you. C And also with you.

P Let us pray. Almighty God, by the working of Your Holy Spirit, C grant that we may gladly hear Your Word proclaimed among us and follow

its directing; P through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the

Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. C Amen.

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Congregation Is Seated

EPISTLE Romans 6:1-13 1What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2By

no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7For one who has died has been set free from sin. 8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. 13Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.

L This is the Word of the Lord. C Thanks be to God. Congregation Stands

P The Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew, the tenth chapter. C Glory to You, O Lord.

HOLY GOSPEL Matthew 10:34-42

34[Jesus said:] “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 a person’s enemies will be those of his 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 his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 40“Whoever receives you

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receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. 41The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. 42And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”

P This is the Gospel of the Lord. C Praise to You, O Christ.

APOSTLES' CREED

C I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, His 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 into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life T everlasting. Amen.

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HYMN “A Mighty Fortress” #657, 1,4

MESSAGE “God’s Greater Story”

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HYMN “Let Us Ever Walk with Jesus” #685, vs 1,4

PRAYERS OF THE CHURCH

LORD’S SUPPER PREFACE

P The Lord be with you. C And also with you. P Lift up your hearts. C We lift them to the Lord.

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P Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. C It is right to give Him thanks and praise.

THE WORDS OF OUR LORD

LORD'S PRAYER

C 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.

PEACE OF THE LORD P The peace of the Lord be with you always. C And also with you.

AGNUS DEI

As the Pastor leads you, reveal each portion of the communion cup and partake of God’s grace and forgiveness to you.

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WE DEPART IN PEACE

BENEDICTION

CLOSING HYMN “I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light” #411, vs 1,2

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DISMISSAL P The worship is ended. C The service now begins. P As we enter the mission field, Relying, Relating, and Responding. C Let us do whatever it takes for the sake of God’s kingdom. Thanks be to

God! POSTLUDE “A Mighty Fortress” Nelhybel Creative Worship for the Lutheran Parish, Series A, Quarter 3. Copyright © 2020 Concordia Publishing House. All rights reserved. Used by permission. CCLI Used by permission: , no. 809822. © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship. Used by permission: , no. 809822. © 1970, 1975 Celebration. Used by permission: , no. 809822.

Pastor: Tab E. Cosgrove Director of Spiritual Growth (DSG): Denise Wright Director of Music: Jim Riggs Audio/Visual Specialist: Mike Pearl Parish Administrator: Sherry Gable DSG Ministry Assistant: Chris Hanes

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