Prayer of Confession, E3B

​Call to Confession

This people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’ (Mt. 13:15) Let us repent from our sin before God and seek God's healing together.

Prayer of Confession

Humans like
to judge, and with that judgment
comes the power to reject:
rejecting ideas
and rejecting attitudes

that are not consistent
with who we have been called
to be,
but sadly,
also rejecting other humans

for the color of their skin
or their country of origin
or their gender
or sexual orientation;

for the people they choose to love
and the ways in which
we imagine that impacts
our visions of the present
and the future,

for their core beliefs,
and the ways they live those
in the world.

We have failed to remember
that our knowledge and understanding
are finite,
that rejection does great damage
to the collective soul,

therefore, we are not called to judge,
but to love,
and to love unconditionally,
for the power to love
is greater than any power
known to humankind.

Assurance of God's Grace

God said to God's people throught he prophet, Isaiah, "I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you." (Is. 44:22) In the name of the risen Christ, our Redeemer and Savior, we are forgiven. Thanks be to God!

Since God has forgiven us in Christ, let us also forgive one another. The peace of Christ be with you.
Please extend the peace of Christ to all whom you encounter this day.