This prayer originally appeared in the worship service "Good News!—Lent 2: Worth Dying For."
Prayer of the People
Loving God,
as strange as it may sound,
we are grateful this Lenten season that Jesus, the Christ, our Messiah,
walked the path of suffering, death, and sacrifice.
We are grateful because it was through this
that our souls—in fact our very lives—were saved!
We pray that by your Spirit
you will help us to gratefully put Christ and not ourselves
at the center of our lives
so that as we follow Christ’s lead,
as we experience suffering and rejection and make sacrifices in this life,
those around us would see in us people who have been shaped by the gospel.
We pray that our Christian witness,
as individuals and collectively as a church,
would be so compelling
that people would be prompted to ask us
how we can continue to worship you no matter the circumstances.
We pray that we would have openings
to tell good news to those around us.
All this we pray in Jesus’ name.
Amen.
