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| St. Mark Presbyterian, Ballwin MO |
PRAYER IN PREPARATION FOR WORSHIP: Patient God, It is to you we come with our questions: Who are you? Who are we? What are we to be about in life? Where is meaning? What is truth? How can we be born anew? As we open to you our seeking spirits, curious minds, and needy hearts, help us remain steadfast in faith as we await your answers. Make us willing to have challenged the knowledge we think we have and brace us for surprise. Receive the worship we bring, O God, in the confidence that you do hear us, and are even now responding in your love. Amen
CALL TO WORSHIP
In the beginning before time, before people, before the world began,
God was.
Here and now among us, beside us, enlisting the people of earth for the purposes of heaven,
God is.
In the future, when we have turned to dust and all we know has found its fulfillment,
God will be.
Not denying the world, but delighting in it, not condemning the world, but redeeming it, through Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit,
God was. God is. God will be.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Holy One, we confess that though we are sheep who know the shepherd’s voice, we fail to listen attentively to the one who alone can lead us safely through all that tempts us. We are besieged by the voices of the world, by the barking of powers that tempt us to buy what we do not need and to prove our power by exerting it over others. To our sorrow, we learn that pride in our own ability to resist only makes us more vulnerable. We confess the sin of our wandering and willfulness. Forgive us, we pray. Amen
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