A prayer written in the season after Pentecost, 2010.
You Who have called us out of sin and darkness into new Life:
stir Your church
with great power come among us
Imbue with power!
Enable disciples to choose
discipline.
May the Baptist people
truly be "people of the Book,"
and worship You in spirit and truth.
Forgive when we try to sell You and Your Gospel with gimmicks,
confusing evangelism with sales mangagement.
Forgive when we treat people as consumers,
and not as those made in Your Image.
Form us to be
your people;
Help us to "Repent,
for the Kingdom of God is at hand."
May souls be saved,
and systems be redeemed.
May your Word be preached,
and be present with those who need You the most.
All of this we ask through +Jesus Christ our Lord,
who, with you and the Holy Ghost lives and reigns,
one God,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
A prayer on the eve of the first Sunday of Advent, 2010.
Shine on us,
we who sit waiting in darkness.
But before you shine on us,
help us to see that
darkness is not dark to you...
in fact, darkness and light to you are just alike.
Make us to see you in the darkness--
we who sit waiting in the darkness.
Shine on us!
Through the Light of Life we pray:
Amen.
