Let us proclaim the following out loud together:
The Cape Town Commitment: We Love the People of God
Jesus calls all his disciples together to be one family among the nations, a reconciled fellowship in which all sinful barriers are broken down through his reconciling grace. This Church is a community of grace, obedience and love in the communion of the Holy Spirit, in which the glorious attributes of God and gracious characteristics of Christ are reflected and God’s multi-coloured wisdom is displayed. As the most vivid present expression of the kingdom of God, the Church is the community of the reconciled who no longer live for themselves, but for the Saviour who loved them and gave himself for them.
Ephesians 3:14-15 (NIV)
14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
We are part of God’s one family. Let’s pray for our churches from Ephesians 3:16-20 (NIV).
Prayer: “16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,”
Thank you, Heavenly Father. May you receive all the glory in our churches. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Let’s pray, worship and sing to “Hands To The Heavens” by Kari Jobe (click here).
-AS
