ADORATION
True God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, you will not share our love and loyalty with another.
In worship we concentrate our minds on you now, we offer our deep-felt longings, and we give ourselves to you,
that our worship may be an act of love. Make us and keep us single-minded in your service.
We seek to adore you through our interests and commitments in society. By respecting others and giving service to them
in the way we would wish to receive it, may we honour you
We seek to adore you through friendship and marriage. By loving those close to us with sensitivity and appreciation,
may we come to know and celebrate your love more truly.
We seek to adore you through our membership and ministry in your Church. Help us to see the Church as divine as well as human, broadcasting your love to the world and transmitting our love to you.
As we worship you now, we abandon and deny any lesser gods who have gained our allegiance. We will not bow down to them or worship them, for they are mere images. They keep us in slavery while you give us freedom by your law of love. Help us to desire you alone and to worship you with undivided hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
CONFESSION
We confess to you, eternal God that we have not loved as Christ loved us. Our self-offering has been grudging and incomplete. Indecency in thought and action and greed for gain have spoiled our society and our part in it. We have been persuaded by shallow arguments; we have lost our hold on Christ and his kingdom.
We ask to be forgiven, and brought out of the shadows into the broad light of day. As we live in the light, may goodness spring up in the place of barrenness. My our growing sense of justice help us to see what is truly pleasing to you, and may the encouragement of your Spirit help us to do it; for Christ's sake. Amen
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