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Let's pray together.

Father, we bow our heads together now

to declare that we depend upon you.

We need your help,

and we look away from ourselves to Christ who loved us

and gave Himself for us and secured for us

the fulfillment of all your promises to us

and therefore we have confidence that you won't leave us

to ourselves here.

You will fill us with everything we need.

You'll help us to be faithful to your Word

and you'll give us the capacity to see Christ

in His greatness and to speak the truth.

So come, strengthen these folks with faith,

with hope, with joy, with holiness,

with courage to live a life that magnifies Jesus.

I ask this in His name. Amen.

In a day when people are co-opting the message of Christ

for political ideologies and sometimes twisting it

beyond recognition into a kind of rope that holds up

the banner of our social causes,

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