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    Oct 18, 2020

    Faithonomics: Serving One Master

    Faithonomics: Serving One Master

    Passage: Matthew 6:19-24

    Speaker: Rev. Jennifer Eschliman, Pastor

    Category: Stewardship

    For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matthew 6:21)
    Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
    October 18, 2020 - 10 am
     
    Watch the service as you follow along
     
    Prelude Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service          
    arr. Janet Linker
     
    Welcome                                                                                                                                                             
         
    Call to Worship                                                               
    We gather as a community of faith
          that has been created by the love of God.
    We are the people who have been set free
          by God’s word of forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
    We have come not to exalt our own goodness,
          but to praise the generous grace of God.
    We have come not to boast in what we have done,
          but to proclaim the redeeming work of Jesus Christ.
    With all our being, let us worship the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
          who alone has saved us, and who alone is worthy of our praise.
     
    Opening Song When I Think About the Lord
    James Huey
     
    Opening Prayer
    Most generous God, we know love because you made it eternally visible in the person of your Son Jesus Christ, who gave himself completely for us and for our salvation. Thank you for that precious gift. As we open ourselves to your Word and Holy Spirit, make us wholly yours, so that you might always be the singular object of our devotion. We ask this in Christ’s holy name. Amen.                                                                     
    Proclamation and Response
     
    Old Testament Reading Exodus 32:1-6
    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 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. 
     
    Gospel Reading Matthew 6:19-24
    “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
     
    “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
     
    “No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
     
    Leader: This is the Word of God.
    All: Thanks be to God!                                                                                                                                                            
     
    Message Faithonomics: Serving One Master
    Pastor Jen Eschliman
     
    Prayers of the People                                                                                                                                     
          Joys & Concerns                                                                                                                                          
          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. Amen.  
                                                 
    Offering Ourselves and Our Gifts to God              
     
    Closing Song Lay Me Down
    Chris Tomlin | Jason Ingram | Jonas Myrin | Matt Redman
     
    Sending Forth
     
    Announcements                                                                                                                                               
     
    Benediction                                                                                                                                                       
     
    Postlude Take My Life, That I May Be                                                        
     arr. Adam O’Dell
     
     
    The scripture readings are from the Holy Bible, New Revised Standard Version, Copyright © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission.
     
    Song Credits: CCLI License # 1011499
     
    Opening Song When I Think About the Lord
    James Huey | CCLI Song # 2834496
    © 1998 CFN Music (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing (Integrity Music, David C Cook))
     
    Closing Song Lay Me Down
    Chris Tomlin | Jason Ingram | Jonas Myrin | Matt Redman | CCLI Song # 6223577
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