CALL TO WORSHIP
Do not avoid the light of God but expose yourself to it. Come to the light so that it will be clear that God is involved in all the good things that you do.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Ruler of our enemies and our allies, adversary of evil everywhere, Savior of all who put their trust in you, we confess that we do not always turn your light on ourselves as carefully as on the behavior of others. We are too prone to spotlight the failures and injustices of other societies than our own. In our private lives we have been subject to the whims of our sensual natures convinced that the natural is always good, ignoring your prohibitions against what is hurtful to both others and ourselves. Forgive our incomplete obedience to your prompting and save us from our sins by your grace in Jesu…