PSALM OF EVANGELISM

PSALM OF EVANGELISM

We come to you, our God, to prepare ourselves:

somehow, alone or with others, I want to serve you.

Send us with your compelling love:

sharing your gospel of love with the world we know.

We go in the strength of your Spirit:

living and working we declare your grace -

to discover the riches of Christ:

in the poor and the sick, in the prisoner and stranger,

to share the treasures of Christ:

at work, at home and among our friends,

to restore the glory of Christ:

to his world and his kingdom of peace.

Help us work for your justice:

joining our hands with others, people of goodwill,

that the earth may be filled with your beauty, even in suffering:

that we may find through death itself your lively hope.

(Based on a prayer by Bishop Patrick Harris for the Decade of Evangelism in the Diocese of Southwell.)