CALL TO WORSHIP
Blessed in the name of the Anointed One are all who come; we bless you from the house of Christ.

CALL TO WORSHIP
If you saw him in the street, would you turn quickly away? Or would you welcome him, saying, "I put my trust in you. You are my God."

PRAYER OF CONFESSION
God of covenants, old and new, carved in stone and written in heart, we confess that we have broken our agreements with you as with others and need your forgiveness for our wrong doing. Forget our sins and continue your patience to us. We avoid learning because it often entails suffering and to avoid suffering we seek the way of ease, forgetting that even Jesus learned by the things that he suffered. Forgive us, we pray in his saving name. Amen.

PRAYER OF CONFESSION
All-seeing God, all-loving God, all-encomp…