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8/21/2018 0 Comments

Prayer of Confession, OT21B

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Call to Confession

Every day in every place in every person, we encounter the holy, but too often we do not notice it, or if we do, we choose to ignore it. In every moment is an invitation to pray, to praise, to give thanks, but we cannot grasp the breadth and depth of the holiness that surrounds us. As we confess our sin before God, we seek God's mercy and forgiveness.

Prayer of Confession

When we attempt to confine you
to buildings with walls
and ceilings,
open our eyes to your presence
all around us,
so that we might be filled with awe
and wonder.
When we act as if the Good News
can only be proclaimed
from the mouths of the ordained,
open our ears to your voice
in the stranger,
so that we might be inspired
by your mystery
and by your grace.
When we exclude the foreigner
and perpetuate injustice
and withhold compassion,
open our hearts
to your healing Spirit
through the redeeming love
of Jesus Christ
in whose name we pray
this day and always,
that everywhere we are in community with others
is a house where God can dwell.

Assurance of God's Grace

God's grace is greater than our finite imaginations. 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 week.

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    Julie served as a Commissioned Ruling Elder in a Presbyterian Church (USA) congregation for thirteen years. She now absolutely delights in filling the pulpit for colleagues upon request, and looks forward to opportunities to do so. Her reformed perspective is sprinkled with humor and presented with authenticity, and she is open to creatively deconstructing worship as a means to helping congregants explore worship in transformational ways.

    Julie and her husband, Ray, are parents of three adult children, and grandparents of four energetic and imaginative little people. She is an introverted-with-enough-extrovert-balance-to-keep-her-social, perfectionistic-with-hopper-tendencies, time and goal-oriented, kaleidoscopic, and insatiably curious child of God.

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