Friday, November 29, 2013

For Sunday

Reading of the Law of God
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. Colossians 3.12-14

Confession of Sin
Our Father, we hear Your Law and what it calls us to be: compassionate, kind, humble, meek, patient, forbearing, forgiving, loving. We stand condemned for all the times we have chosen not to be what You call us to be. As we remember these sins of ours, we are ashamed. You deserve better. Only because of the multitude of Your promises, we are bold to ask again for forgiveness. Forgive and change us so that we might walk as Jesus walked. Amen.

Declaration of Pardon
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit. 1 Peter 3.18