Call to Confession: 

Each Sunday, we take a moment to confess and repent alongside one another. It’s a way we regularly take seriously our sin and lay it before God. Let’s prepare our hearts by hearing these words from 2 Peter 3:

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Prayer of Confession: 

Lord, we confess to you how often we are deeply impatient and frustrated with life in this world. We strive and do not succeed, we pray and do not see answers, we ask for holiness and find ourselves seemingly stuck in our sin. 

As a result we hold resentment in our hearts and become easily discouraged. Forgive us. Lord, teach us that you value our humility more than our triumphs, our dependence more than our success, and our willingness to follow you more than our self-centered best efforts.

Fix our eyes and hearts on who you are and the promise that you will finish the good work you have begun in us. Remind us that your timing is not fast or slow, but is in keeping with your perfect wisdom. As we wait on you, grant us your peace. Amen.

Assurance of Pardon: 

In the scriptures we find assurances of our forgiveness and encouragement in our walk.  So hear these words from Isaiah 65 and rest in their truth for us:

“For behold, I create new heavens

    and a new earth,

and the former things shall not be remembered

    or come into mind.

But be glad and rejoice forever

    in that which I create;