Worship Prayers

PRAYER IN PREPARTION:  God of blessing, you call us to be one with you and your creation in love, faithfulness, and truth.  Help us to carry out the vows we make:  to adore you with our whole heart, to live in mutual support of one another, and to love as if your reign has fully come.  Amen

  

CALL TO WORSHIP

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you.  Jesus proclaims, “You are the light of the world.”

         Thanks be to God!

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Holy God, we confess that we bow down before other gods; We have turned our hearts away from you.  Our worship of work and devotion to consumerism disorders our love of you and each other.  Forgive us, God, and mend what is broken, that we may be one with you.  Amen.

SCRIPTURE READING                                                                                             Deuteronomy 30:15-20

PROFESSION OF FAITH - The Apostles' Creed

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried;

he descended to the dead.  On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.  Amen.