Prayer of Approach (Voiced, with congregational response)
Voice 1 : Come, Holy Spirit, come, and renew the whole creation.
Send the wind and flame of your transforming life to lift up the church in this day.
Give wisdom and faith that we may know the great hope to which we are called.
Come, Holy Spirit!
Congregational Response :Come Holy Spirit and renew the whole creation.
Voice 2 : Giver of life, sustain your creation.
Confront us with our greedy consuming of your gifts.
Stand before us as we pillage and destroy.
Lead us into new harmonies of care for all that lives and breathes and has its being.
Come, Holy Spirit!
Response : Come Holy Spirit and renew the whole creation.
Voice 3 : Spirit of truth, set us free to emerge as the children of God.
Open our ears that we may hear the weeping of the world.
Open our mouths that we may be a voice for the voiceless.
Open our eyes that we may see your vision of peace and justice.
Make us alive with the courage and faith of your gospel truth.
Come, Holy Spirit!
Response :Come Holy Spirit and renew the whole creation.
Voice 4 : Spirit of unity, reconcile your people.
Give us the wisdom to hold to what we need to be your church.
Give us the grace to lay down those things that you can do without.
Give us a vision of your breadth and length and height that will challenge our smallness of heart and bring us humbly together. Come, Holy Spirit!
Response :Come Holy Spirit and renew the whole creation.
Voice 5 : Spirit of life and power,
transform our dreams that we may be your people.
Give us the gifts we need.
Walk with us on the road as we risk living your way in spirit and in truth.
Come, Holy Spirit!
Response :Come Holy Spirit and renew the whole creation.
Amen.
(Based on Come Holy Spirit Renew the Whole Creation, in Falla, Terry C ‘Be our Freedom Lord’)
