Post date: Jun 22, 2013 1:29:28 PM
Opening
Remember that you were saved by faith through God’s grace today. Let us now worship God together. Amen.
Community
Lord, we pray that you would strengthen us in our calling to follow you. Help us to be disciplined in practice of devotion, prayer, and meditation. Give us the grace to choose rightly and draw us closer to you so that we may better know your will and experience the fullness of your grace.
Lord, When we see the world in its darkness, help us to know what to say and do, and then to say and do it. Work in and through us. When we see sickness, help us heal. When we see poverty, help us enrich. When we see grief, help us give comfort. When we see despair, help us bring hope. When we see hunger, help us to provide food. Be with those we name now out loud or silently in our hearts...
Dear God, through the gospel which declares salvation by grace through faith you reached out to us, and drew our hearts in faith to Christ. Now we are your children. Now we are rescued from the slavery of sin. Do not let us trust in our works to merit heaven. Fill us with zeal for your Word so that we eagerly proclaim it.