Than you for making every person
an essential part of your Church and your purpose!
Thank you for giving us Spirit-born passions
and the power and the gifts of your Spirit to fulfill our part.
Thank you for calling everyone to play!
We praise you for the privilege of celebrating you
in the community of saints;
You are not only good, but all good and only good-
And we worship you!
Please forgive us when we presume our roles are more important than others,
for bending into soulless entertaining,
and for confusing emotional hype for spiritual reality.
We confess
we sometimes dance at your party and eat your food
without acknowledging your presence,
without enabling others to enter into you.
Keep us full of your Holy Spirt, Lord.
Fill us with passion to help everyone we lead enter into you,
To find their place and call
as their hearts are opened to the reality of your presence and their importance!
Pour out your Spirit and release your gifts
even as we worship;
enable us to be instruments of worship-not just players of instruments.
All for your glory, all in Jesus' name.
Lord, let it be.
-Kenn Gulliksen
