1/17/2018 0 Comments Prayer of Confession, Epiphany 3BCall to Confession
God has promised that if at any time God declares concerning a nation or a kingdom, that God will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which God has spoken, turns from its evil, God will relent of the disaster that God intended to do to it. Let us confess our sin, and turn from our evil ways. Prayer of Confession The words we speak hurt our sisters and brothers, but we speak them anyway and then deny it, our miserable souls self-focused. We refuse to acknowledge our own implicitness in the gathering gloom that settles in the souls of the marginalized and misaligned. We make assumptions about guilt and innocence, about motivation and intent, without facts in evidence and fan our anger into flame without taking time to learn the truth, to listen and to seek to understand. Forgive us, we pray. Pull us out of our egocentricity and lead us to repentance that we may be learn the language of love and grace and speak it fluently from the heart. Assurance of God's Grace “Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” We return to the Lord our God, for God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and God relents over disaster. In the name of Jesus Christ, 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.
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