Reading of the Law
of God
I appeal to you
therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living
sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not
be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind,
that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and
acceptable and perfect. Romans 12.1-2
Confession of Sin
Our Father, we hear
Your Law, and again it exposes our sin. We recognize that we are so like our
unbelieving neighbors. We conform so much to the world around us. We are so
little like the living sacrifices You call for. We are so little like Jesus. In
these things we have sinned. We ask that You would forgive our sin. We ask that
You would renew our minds. Make us more like Jesus and less like the faithless
who live in this world. We ask this only through Jesus, our faithful Savior.
Amen.
Declaration of
Pardon
Whoever has the Son
has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write
these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know
that you have eternal life. 1 John 5:12-13
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.
The Book of Common
Prayer