This call to worship originally appeared in "Searching Questions—Week 3: the Question that Focuses Us."
Prayer of Confession
There are times I think I love you well, O God.
But upon hearing your call to love you with all my heart,
and all my mind, and all my strength,
I confess that my love for you is a diluted love,
made insipid and flat by lesser loyalties and a divided heart.
My love seems pure only for brief moments;
soon my affections are drawn away.
How easily my devotion dies.
Forgive me;
in deep mercy, spare me despite my lost first love for you;
in grace, rekindle my love for you by seeing anew Jesus' love for me.
Amen.
Revised Common Lectionary
Year A: Season after Pentecost—Proper 25 (30)
Year B: Season after Pentecost—Proper 26 (31)
Year C: Season after Pentecost—Proper 10 (15)
