Prayer of Confession

Father, you have called us to follow Jesus and live counter-cultural lives.

You have called us to let the gospel shape our dreams, our goals, our desires and our hearts. 

However, we come to you this morning confessing

that we have allowed our world to shape us instead of Your lovingkindness.

Where you desire us to serve, we have sought to be served. 

Where you desire us to sacrifice, we have pursued comfort. 

Where you have sought us to engage, we have remained aloof. 

Where you have sought us as your children, we have lived as orphans. 

Now, Father, accept our confession and receive us gladly.  

We do not ask for your grace because we deserve it, 

We even doubt our ability to confess with full honesty the depth of our sin. 

Father pardon us for the sake of Jesus. 

You rejected Him, the innocent, in order to embrace us, the guilty. 

Amen. 

Assurance of Pardon

Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. Hebrews 9:27-28

Order of Worship, September 26, 2010

Grace Presbyterian Church