Reading of the Law of God
If you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Matthew 5.23-24
Confession of Sin
Our Father, we do not recognize how evil it is to fail to be reconciled to each other. All too often we fail to deal with sins against each other. We fail to resolve problems that separate us. We try to ignore these problems instead of trying to solve them. We stand condemned. We ask that You might forgive us this sin by the blood of Jesus’ Cross. Please teach us the ways of right living in our families and in our church so that the world might see the fruit of the Gospel in our lives. Amen.
Declaration of Pardon
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.1 John 2.1-2