Oceanview UMC | September 20 2020

September 20 2020 Home Worship

Staying home is a form of loving your neighbor.

Think about it, you may be staying home for your own health but in reality you then become less of a carrier to others that you might come in contact with.

While Palm Beach County is slowly opening into Phase 2, remember that CDC guidelines state that if you are in a high risk category, it is highly recommended that you remain sequestered and safe as much as possible. Caregivers and family members are encouraged to do the same, so as to not jeopardize their loved ones. If you are not comfortable attending socially distanced activities quite yet, please stay home and stay in touch!

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This is not live worship, it is a way to worship at your home in place of our worship gatherings. You see Oceanview family and staff sharing our gifts with each other. As we do this, we hope you will feel close to God who is near even though we are far apart. May God Bless you and Keep you.

Piano Prelude: Soon and Very Soon/When We All

Psalter UMH #828 Psalm 105: 1-11

Prayers of the People

Offer up your own prayer. Offer praise and thanksgiving to God. Share your worries and concerns with God. Pray for other people. Pray for people who are sick, lonely, and afraid. Pray for medical professionals, medical researchers, first responders, and community leaders who are working so hard to keep us well. Ask God to help you find creative ways to reach out to people and share God’s love via phone, card, email, or social media, etc.

How Great Thou Art - Oceanview Worship

Verse 1

O Lord my God When I in awesome wonder Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made

I see the stars I hear the rolling thunder Thy pow'r thru'out The universe displayed

Chorus

Then sings my soul My Savior God to Thee

How great Thou art How great Thou art

Then sings my soul My Savior God to Thee

How great Thou art How great Thou art

Verse 2

When through the woods And forest glades I wander And hear the birds Sing sweetly in the trees

When I look down From lofty mountain grandeur And hear the brook And feel the gentle breeze

Verse 3

And when I think That God His Son not sparing Sent Him to die I scarce can take it in

That on the cross My burden gladly bearing He bled and died To take away my sin

Verse 4

When Christ shall come With shout of acclamation And take me home What joy shall fill my heart

Then I shall bow In humble adoration And there proclaim My God how great Thou art

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Congregational Prayer

Scripture Matthew 20: 1-16 (NIV)

Matthew 20:1-16

1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. 3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’

5 So they went. “He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing.

6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’

7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. “He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’

8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’

9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’

13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ 16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

Message: Kingdom Parables - 'Equity'

Pastor Emily Denmark McGee

Kingdom Parables Series

God's love is unconditional and offered to everyone.

Special Message from Joseph Farrar

Offering Prayer

Oceanview Online Giving: Giving is a part of our worship to God. Your generosity helps us minister God’s hope and healing to our community and beyond. Contribute here: Oceanview Give. Thank you for helping show Christ real and relevant to the world.

Prayer: Almighty God, you have given all peoples one common origin, and your will is to gather them as one family in yourself. Fill the hearts of all with the fire of your love and the desire to ensure justice for all our sisters and brothers. By sharing the good things you give us, may we secure justice and equality for every human being, and a human society built on love and peace, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Amazing Grace

Blessing: 2 Peter 1:2–3

May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence.

Revised Common Lectionary

Further Readings for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 20, 2020 from The Revised Common Lectionary, Year A

1st Reading: Exodus 16:2-15

Psalm: Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45

2nd Reading: Philippians 1:21-30

Gospel: Matthew 20:1-16

https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/

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