Holy God:
We have come into this place for one reason only this morning: to worship you. Only the sacrifice of your son gives us access to your throne, only the faithful love we have seen in Jesus makes us know that we are loved, only your radical grace draws us into your fold and wraps us in your embrace.
It was the love of Christ that brought us to this house today, it was the love of Christ that made us part of this family, it was the love of Christ that made our hearts alive.
We have been tempted to be distracted by many things since--We have easily become lost in activities and rules and church protocol. We have thought that our life together was about meetings and vestments and calendars and things to be fixed. We have become so passionate about the songs we should sing that we have lost the spirit of the one who put a song in our heart.
You care about the work done at meetings, about the opprtunities for renewal we put in a calendar, about the songs that teach us to remember your great love in Jesus. So help us always to put first things first. To love him first and foremost, and to allow everything in this life to point us back to the love that set us free.
Amen.
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