CALL TO WORSHIP
Be still in God's presence and worship expectantly. Take delight in prayer, and you will receive your heart's desire.

PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Compassionate Parent, understanding Brother, loving and forgiving Spirit, you know how weak we are and how prone to retaliate when treated spitefully. We would rather return a curse with a curse and a blow with a blow. We refuse many who ask us for what we think we do not owe. We are ready to sue for the return of what is rightfully ours. How is it that you expect us to do good to those who hate us? Is it really possible that we could become so much like Jesus Christ? Forgive us, for his sake, for we are not. Amen.

DECLARATION OF GOD'S FORGIVENESS
Hear the Good News! As we have worn the likeness of the human in the earth, we shall wear…