A Prayer for Word Communion Sunday

O God, You have built Your Church
upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone.

Save the community of Your people
from cowardly surrender to the world,
from rendering unto Caesar what belongs to You,
and from forgetting the eternal gospel
amid the temporal pressures of our troubled days.

For the unity of the Church we pray,
and for fellowship across the embittered lines of race and nation;
to growth in grace, building in love, enlargement in service,
increase in wisdom, faith, charity, and power, 
we dedicate our lives; through Jesus Christ our Savior. 
Amen.

The Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick,

#506, The United Methodist Church Book of Worship

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