45 lines
1.9 KiB
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45 lines
1.9 KiB
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Father,
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We come before you right now to recognize our sin.
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We come before you to confess that we have not lived according to your purpose
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and design for us.
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We have failed as your image and as stewards of your creation.
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We have failed in your call to exercise dominion over creation, and have
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submitted ourselves to worshiping creatures rather than you, our Creator.
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The creation that you made us to be benevolent stewards of suffers because we
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love it wrongly.
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You made us stewards of your creation, and we have brought death upon it.
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We twist and contort your image in the world, and then set our hopes in that
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contorted image.
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We have scorned your design for us.
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We are ashamed of your noble callings for us.
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We have trained our hearts to delight in and esteem mockeries of the Gospel,
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mockeries of your manifold wisdom.
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We allow our entertainment to breed in us, sympathy for and celebration of
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things you have declared detestable.
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Masquerading cowardice as compassion, we fail to speak the truth.
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Masquerading animosity as compassion, we use the truth for harm.
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In this we fail as Christ's body.
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We fail as the body of him who is your perfect image.
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We are in many ways disciples of our culture, rather than your Son.
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We are in many ways disciples of whichever popular faction of our time seems
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best to us, rather than your Word.
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Whether we are stalwart devotees of tradition, progress, or moderation, we too
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often set our course according to the ideas of men without ever truly
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consulting your Word.
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But by your Word, we know that you gave your Son for us, and so we come to you
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now seeking the peace with you that is bought by the blood of his cross, that
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we may share in his life.
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We ask your forgiveness for our sin, that you would deliver us both from the
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from the consequence of our sin and from our sin itself, that we might image
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you rightly.
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We ask this in the name of your righteous Son, Christ Jesus.
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Amen.
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