August 18 & 25, September 1, 2019

Sundays after Pentecost

Welcome Visitor

and Members!

We’re glad you are with us today.

PrayGround toys are available in the back for

those under age 5. A staffed nursery

is also available. An usher can help you find them.

Please sign in on the YES! Sheet

and pass it to the center aisle. If you would like to request a prayer

to be read during worship, write it on the back. An usher will pick it up during the Hymn of the Day.

Embracing the diversity of God’s creation

and celebrating our oneness in Christ.

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Pastor Kathy Nolte 611 Randolph • Oak Park, Illinois 60302 (temporarily located at 820 Ontario, Oak Park) 708-848-4741 • www.goodshepherdlc.org

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Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Setting 7

Please leave your bulletin in the basket located at the back of the sanctuary so it can be used again in upcoming services. Take the Good Shepherd Epistle home to use throughout the week. Good Shepherd is dedicated to giving people the option of inclusive language. These options are indicated in parentheses ( ).

Prelude

Announcements

Gathering

Confession and Absolution

God is doing something new; Open your minds to see what God is doing around you. God is planting new seeds; Open your hearts to feel what God is doing within you. God is calling our names; Come, let us worship God; Come, join together our hearts and minds to follow Jesus Christ our Lord.

silence for reflection Holy One, we come before You confessing that sometimes it is too hard. Sometimes we are so tired. We don’t want to hear the cries of the poor because they never stop. We don’t want to know how bad things are for others because we are caught up in

how bad things are for ourselves. Forgive us when we close ourselves off, forgetting that our Savior called upon us to love our neighbor as ourselves,

forgetting that our Savior was among the poor and the lonely and the homeless, forgetting that our Savior called us to deny ourselves to take up our cross to follow him. Forgive us, in the name of Jesus our Savior. Amen.

God knows our flaws and our shortcomings, and through the Jesus Christ+, God calls

us precious and invites us to live in a new way. Forgive others, and know you are forgiven, and join your hearts in God’s work.

Gathering Song

August 18 Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow ELW 327

August 25 Arise, Your Light Has Come ELW 314

September 1 Let Us Go Now to the Banquet ELW 523

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.

Gloria

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Prayer of the Day

Let us pray… Amen.

Word

First Reading Today’s Readings

Word of God, word of life. Thanks be to God.

Psalm Today’s Readings

Second Reading Today’s Readings

Word of God, word of life. Thanks be to God.

Gospel Acclamation

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Gospel Today’s Readings

Before the gospel: Glory to you, O Lord. After the gospel: Praise to you, O Christ.

Gathering Song & Mini-Meditation for Children ELW 744 Children are invited to come forward during the song.

In my life, Lord, be glorified, be glorified in my life, Lord, be glorified today In your church, Lord, be glorified, be glorified in your church, Lord, be glorified today In your world, Lord, be glorified, be glorified in your world, Lord, be glorified today

Hymn of the Day During the hymn, YES! Sheets are collected.

August 18 O Jesus, I Have Promised ELW 810

August 25 Hail to the Lord’s Anointed ELW 311

September 1 The Church of Christ, in Every Age ELW 729

Sermon Pastor Kathy Nolte Time for silent reflection

Baptism (September 1 only) ELW page 227

Prayers of Intercession

Passing of the Peace

The peace of Christ be with you always. And also with you.

Meal

Offering Gifts are gathered as the table is prepared. A musical offering is shared.

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Offertory Response We Are an Offering ELW 692

We lift our voices, we lift our hands, we lift our lives up to you: we are an offering Lord use our voices, Lord, use our hands, Lord, use our lives, they are yours: we are an offering All that we have, all that we are, all that we hope to be, we give to you, we give to you. We lift our voices, we lift our hands, we lift our lives up to you: we are an offering, we are an offering.

Offering Prayer

Loving God, help us understand what you would have us do. Even on this sabbath day there are people to take care of, work to do, justice to further and righteousness to enact. Touch our mouths to give us blessed words, holy our hands to do your work, and bless these gifts from both our pockets and our abilities to enact your will today and beyond. Amen.

Great Thanksgiving

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

Preface

It is indeed right, our duty and our joy, that we should at all times and in all places give thanks and praise to you, almighty and merciful God, through our Savior Jesus Christ. And so, with all the choirs of angels, with the church on earth and the hosts of heaven, we praise your name and join their unending hymn:

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Holy, Holy

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Eucharistic Prayer

Today our table deserves to be lit by fire – not mere candles but a hot, vibrant flame that cooks bread, warms chills, chases away fears, and brings comfort to those lost in darkness. This simple table of bread and cup is anything but simple, and unites us with brothers and sisters of all time and place and practice. It unites us with our Triune God who creates, redeems and sustains. At this table we hear the reverberations of Jeramiah’s sometimes terrifying words. We hear the testimony of the woman freed from bondage and all those liberated by our scriptures and our Christ. This is the table of those who take refuge from the toils of life. In the night in which he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus took bread, and gave thanks; broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying: Take and eat; this is my body, given for you. Do this for the remembrance of me. Again, after supper, he took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it for all to drink, saying: This cup is the new covenant in my blood, shed for you and for all people for the forgiveness of sin. Do this for the remembrance of me. Breathe life in us and these simple gifts of bread and wine, Holy Spirit of God—through Jesus Christ, let these everyday gifts of bread and cup become for us soul-sustaining meal. Join us together as one loving community of neighbors. Amen!

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Lord’s Prayer

Gathered into one by the Holy Spirit, let us pray as Jesus taught

(Abba Imma/Our Father) in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil.

For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever. Amen.

Invitation to Communion

Come and eat of the bread of life. Come and drink of the cup of the new covenant. Come and satisfy the deepest hunger inside you. Come.

Communion Please come forward as the ushers direct. You will be given bread. You may eat the bread and drink; or intinct (dip) in the large cup and eat. The silver cup has wine; the oversize pottery cup has grape juice. Pastor has gluten free wafers if you need, just ask.

Agnus Dei

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Communion Hymns

August 18 For the Bread Which You Have Broken ELW 494 Special Music by Will Richards

August 25 Healer of Our Every Ill ELW 612 I Received the Living God ELW 477

September 1 You Are Mine ELW 581 Yours, Lord, Is the Glory ELW 849

Post Communion Blessing

May the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ you and keep you in his grace. Amen.

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Prayer after Communion

O God, in this holy communion you have welcomed us into your presence, nourished us with words of mercy, and fed us at your table. Amid the cares of this life, strengthen us to love you with all our heart, serve our neighbors with a willing spirit, and honor the earth you have made; through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Sending

Blessing

Live your lives in Christ, rooted and built up in him, and abound in thanksgiving; and the blessing of the holy Trinity, ☩ one God, be upon you and remain with you forever Amen.

Sending Hymn

August 18 Oh, for a Thousand Tongues to Sing ELW 886

August 25 Sent Forth by God’s Blessing ELW 547

September 1 In Christ Called to Baptize ELW 575

Dismissal

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Postlude

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From Sundays and Seasons.com. Copyright 2019 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved.Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #26258. 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. Confession used by permission. http://rev-o-lution.org/2016/08/06/worship-resources-for-august-14-2016-thirteenth-sunday-after-pentecost/; offering prayer and invitation to communion used by permission: https://ruachwords.org/2016/08/15/twenty-first-sunday-in-ordinary-time-c-august-21-2016/

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