For Sunday

Reading of the Law of God

And now I ask you, dear lady – not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning – that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it. 2 John 1.5-6

Confession of Sin

Our Father, You have called us to love one another and to do this according to Your commandments. We confess that there are too many times that we just don’t want to love someone else. There are too many times that we just want to think about ourselves and what we want. This is sin. It is ugly. We ask that You would forgive us this sin and that You would change us so that we would give ourselves to a real love of our brothers and sisters. Please grant us our request for Jesus’ sake. Amen.

Declaration of Pardon

Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Isaiah 55.6-7

May God who loved the world so much that he sent his Son to be our Saviour forgive us our sins and make us holy to serve him in the world, through Jesus Christ our Lord.