Friday, May 30, 2014

The Church’s Plea – v2

We pray you will listen
but we know there is distance
space between us
which we regret.

If you used to come
to this church, this sanctuary
if you once felt belonging,
part of this family;
but you left because
of something someone said
or didn’t say or
something someone did
or didn’t do,
We apologize and
we ask you for forgiveness.

We pray you will hear us
a genuine apology
we can’t change the past
but we want you with us.

Please come back;
we need you, with us
we didn’t mean to hurt you.
Our life together will be
richer with you here with us,
healed of our brokenness, schism.
We love you and we are sorry
if we hurt you in any way
with our words or our actions
or when we failed to act or speak.
We too are human; we make mistakes.
                  

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edited May 30, 2014
The Church’s Plea – v2
May 2, 2014
The Church’s Plea
2 Corinthians 4:1-16
2 Corinthians 4:15
“Jesus All the Time!”
devotion by Phil Robertson
for April 30, 2014
read April 30, 2014
Duck Commander Daily Devotional
compiled by Alan Robertson

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