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*Hymn In the Midst of New Dimensions Julian Rush (1985)

*Benediction the Prayer of St. Francis

*Response Grace Alone Scott Brown (1978)

Concerns of the Community

Mary & Wesley Adams (parents of Andrea Wuori), Jessica Aldinger

(niece of Susan Swift), Rick & Cheryl Arscott (friends of Group 36), Jim

Asbury (brother of Kathi Urban), Bernie Baum, Verdain Barnes,

Michael Brady (son of Jere & Fred), Greg Colson (friend of Dottie

Giesler), Jeanie Eaken (sister of Debbie Cornelia), Lois Groomes

(mother of Susan Swift), Chuck Hetzer, Kate Hessenthaler (friend of

the Gieslers), Tori Hosbrook (niece of Carla Thornton), David Huggins

(son of Christine Bowman), Joanne Kovach, Kristin Lizar (friend of

Connie Oliver), Lynne Majewski, Joyce Michaels, Robert Morgan, Ked

Murray, Janice O’Kelley (friend of Ginger Cargile), Michael Robinson

(son of Linda Robinson), Elizabeth Stiver (friend of the Hicks), Caleb

Trempe (nephew of Tim Merrill), Radha Vemuri (friend of Roger

Schurig), Janet Warner, Dylan Webb (friend of Kathy Stephan),

Flowers given today by:

8:30 - Mary Jo & Bill Thompson in gratitude

for their grandchildren and great granddaughter

10:30 - Andrea & Dick Wuori in memory of those

we have lost to breast cancer

LOCC BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK

Oct 29 - Patricia Chaney Oct 30 - Carol Britten, Anita Clavier

Nov 3 Donna Stevens

FALL BIBLE STUDY at The LOCC

Sessions resume on October 31

LOCC CHURCH LADIES SHOE-BOX PROJECT

The BOXES are still OPEN ~ Help FILL Them!

Wednesday, December 5, 3 p.m. at The LOCC

Contact Joan Bramblett or Martha Franks for more information

LOCC goes to Spain, Portugal & France - Sept 24 - Oct 9, 2091

Refer to the LOCC Links for details

~ LOCC Hour Of Power ~ Mondays, 11:45 a.m. Greensboro FUMC

~ Dementia Caregiver Support Group ~

2nd

& 4th

Tues, 10:30 a.m. at The LOCC

Support Group For Families dealing with Addiction

6:15 - 7: 45 p.m. at The LOCC - Oct 31

ALL SAINTS SUNDAY - November 4 - Both Services

Prosecco Toast to our Saints following both services.

Guest Preacher - Emily Harbin

(past Youth Alliance intern now in Seminary)

Lake Oconee Community Church Staff Team

Becky Matheny, Pastor of Spiritual / Communal Development 706.202.0124 bmatheny@locc.co

David W. Key, Sr. Founding Pastor 770.309.2394 dkeysr@locc.co

Gary W. Arnold, Pastor of Worship, Communication, Liturgical Arts 404.402.5542 garnold@locc.co

Kathi Urban, Ministry Coordinator 404.314.2491 kurban@locc.co

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, Let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy: O Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;

To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Announcements ~ Week of October 28, 2018

~ Church as You Know it Can Be ~

Worshiping ~ Growing ~ Serving

8:30 a.m. - Worship at The Lake Club

10:30 a.m. - Worship at The LOCC

THE WORSHIP OF GOD

- All are welcome here - We want to get to know you - Please sign the Attendance Pads on the Tables near the Entrance We ask that guests and first-time visitors provide an email address. Members and regular attendees may check the appropriate box.

~ We Gather to Worship ~

L: This is a new day the Lord is making! P: Let us worship God!

~ Luther, Calvin & the Pope Meet ! ~

Gathering Faith Begins by Letting Go Carl Daw (1996) Sung to Dix ~ For the Beauty of the Earth

1. Faith begins by letting go; giving up what had seemed sure; Taking risks and pressing on; though the way feels less secure:

Pilgrimage both right and odd, trusting all our life to God.

Reformation Call to Worship

As we gather together this day to commemorate – to be a living collage of a variety of hues from the same Painter’s palette, we strive to come to this

anniversary in the spirit of the Five Rs of the Reformation …

We come Rejoicing … because of the joy we share; because what we have in common is greater than that which divides; because God is patient;

because we can always learn from each other.

We come Remembering … because all streams of the Reformation contain valid witnesses; because one church’s celebration is another’s painful memory.

We come Reforming … because the Church is always in need of being made new again and again.

We come Repenting … because splintering leads us to formulate judgements, stereotypes, and prejudices about each other; because focusing

upon our differences diverts our attention away from our purpose.

We come Reconciling … because our call to oneness begins with a perspective of unity not division; because our strength lies is what is held in common.

ALL: Because God is our Refuge – we come during this Reformation season to Rejoice, to Remember, to be Reformed, to Repent and to Reconcile on

this day and beyond. Thanks be to God!

All Sing

2. Faith endures by holding on, keeping mem’ry’s roots alive; So that hope may bear its fruit; promise-fed, our souls will thrive,

Not through merit we possess; but by God’s great faithfulness.

The responsibility of the church is to declare to each generation what is the faith. . . . This is always a fresh task in every generation. . . . No verbal statement can be produced which relieves the Church of the responsibility continually to re-think and re-state its message. No appeal to creeds and confessions can alter the fact that the Church has to state in every new generation how it interprets the historic faith, and how it relates it to the new thought and experience of its time. . . . Nothing can remove from the Church the responsibility for stating now what is the faith. It belongs to the essence of a living

church that it should be able and willing to do so. — Lesslie Newbigin, 1948

ALL Sing:

3. Faith matures by reaching out, stretching minds, enlarging hearts, Sharing struggles, living prayer, binding up the broken parts;

Till we find the commonplace; ripe with witness to God’s grace.

~ We Listen for the Voice of God ~

Gospel Lesson John 8:36 Common English Bible

36 Therefore, if the Son makes you free, you really will be free.

L: This is the Gospel of the Lord P: Praise to You, Lord Christ!

Sermon Freedom David W. Key, Sr.

~ We Respond ~

ALL: To You God, I release my fear; I release my pain; I release my uncertainty; I release my shame; I release my busyness and hurry; I release my worry;

I release my defensiveness; I release any feeling that I need to fake something, or put on a show.

I release any sense that I am unworthy, or unloved by you. I release any grudges or unforgiveness I’m holding.

I release to any urge for vengeance or need to prove a point. I release myself from innapropriate expectations put on me by other people.

I release myself from insisting on perfection. I release myself from micromanaging or taking too much responsibility.

I release myself from saying Yes when I should be saying No. I release myself from saying No when I should be saying Yes.

I accept the peace you offer me in your presence. I accept the rest you offer me in sharing the heavy things of my life.

I gratefully accept the freedom you offer me this this very moment, and in each new day.

The Five Solas ~ Reformation Hymn Anderson / Kauflin (2016)

Solo: We will trust God’s Word alone, where a perfect Love is known; Our traditions shift like sand while God’s Truth forever stands.

We will live by faith alone, clothed in merit not our own; We are claimed by Christ alone, and His Living Sacrifice.

Refrain ALL

Solo: We are saved by grace alone — undeserved, yet freely shown; No accomplishment on earth can achieve each day’s new birth.

We will stand on Christ alone, the unyielding Cornerstone; Nations rage and evil roars, still God reigns forevermore! Refrain ALL

The Giving, *Presentation and Blessing of our Gifts

L: We give thanks for all that God has given us. P: May God bless all that we offer: our prayers, our presence, our gifts and our service.

~ We Gather as Community ~

*Passing of the Peace L: The Lord be with you! P: And also with you! Greet one another with signs of peace.

*Song of Fellowship Surely the Presence Lanny Wolfe (1977)

~ A word from Katharina von Bora ~

~ We Gather in Prayer ~ ~ Silent Prayer ~ Sharing Requests ~ ~ Pastoral Prayer ~ Lord’s Prayer

Response Free to be Me, God Kate Wilkins Woolley (1970)

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.