Sunday Afternoon Prayer: Let Your Kingdom Come

This is a prayer we have been using in our evening worship services.  Each time I have prayed it, it has seemed so right, so what the church ought to be.

Reshape us, good Lord,

Until in generosity,

Faith and full expectation,

We are truly Christ-like.

Make us passionate followers of Jesus

Rather than passive supporters.

Make our churches places of

Radical discipleship

And signposts to heaven,

Then, in us, through us,

And, if need be, despite us,

Let your kingdom come.

Amen.

The prayer is from “Evening Liturgy E” in A Wee Worship Book by Wild Goose Worship Group, 1999.

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